COMMITTEE: Student Scholarships, Fellowships, and Financial aid Committee

MEETING DATE: September 25, 2006

PERSON PRESIDING: Mark Taggart; Chal Benson; Brent Henze

REGULAR MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE: Brent Henze, Anthony Overton, Kindal Shores, Jill Matarelli Carlson, Yong Wang, Ken MacLeod

EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE: Victoria Ogden

OTHERS IN ATTENDANCE: Chal Benson, Mark Taggart

ACTIONS OF MEETING

Agenda Item: Old Business: Calling the Committee to Order again for the year; Old Business carried over from last year; Electing new Officers.

Discussion: Mark Taggart, Chair of the Faculty was in attendance and started the meeting. He turned it over to Chal Benson, former Chair of the Student Scholarships, Fellowships, and Financial aid Committee. Chal Benson addressed items carried over from last year: that we continue to monitor the success of the Centennial Capital Campaign in collecting monies that can be used to aid students in poverty and that we continue to participate in Scholarship Weekend by contacting the person in charge and volunteering to serve. We then moved on to the election of new Officers, as Chal had to step down as Chair. Brent Henze volunteered to serve as Chair and was seconded and approved by all; Anthony Overton volunteered to serve as Vice Chair and was seconded and approved by all; and Jill Matarelli Carlson volunteered to serve as Secretary and was seconded and approved by all.

Action Taken: Brent Henze, Anthony Overton, and Jill Matarelli Carlson were elected the officers of the 2006/2007 Student Scholarships, Fellowships, and Financial aid Committee.

Assigned additional duties to: NA

Agenda Item: New Business: Representative to the Administrative Scholarship Committee; Meeting Time; Review of Committee Charge.

Discussion: Mark Taggart requested a representative from our committee to serve on the Administrative Committee on Scholarships and act as a go between. Brent Henze volunteered to serve as the representative.

The possibility of changing our Committee’s meeting time was brought up, however, since no alternative time could be established that would meet with everyone’s schedule, it was decided that the meeting time should remain the same. Brent Henze brought forth the item of reviewing our Committee’s Charge and how it related to undergraduate and graduate students. It was decided that this would be on the next meetings agenda. It was also decided that new items for the committee to address would be considered as the semester unfolds.

Action Taken: Brent Henze will serve as Representative on the Administrative Scholarship Committee. The Meeting time will remain the same – 11:00am.

Assigned additional duties to: Brent Henze will get copies of the relevant passages of the catalogue for discussion and review during next meeting.

NEXT MEETING: November 27^th, 2006

ITEMS TO BE DISCUSSED: The Committee’s Charge as it relates to graduate and undergraduate students.