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Contents
Treasurer’s Report
Chair’s
Report
President’s
Report
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September
24, 2002
Chicago, IL
Summary
of Major Actions
(These
are not official minutes of the CHEA Board of Directors.)
Chair
Rothkopf called the meeting to order at 8:00 a.m.
Treasurer's
Report
The board of directors
approved the FY02 fourth quarter financial report.
The board of directors
accepted the FY02 external audit as presented.
The board of directors
approved the first increase in annual dues to regionally-accredited and
nationally-accredited member institutions since 1996-97. These increases
will be effective with the FY04 fiscal year and are as follows:
| |
Current |
Proposed |
Increase |
| Under
$10m |
$100 |
$200 |
$100 |
|
$10-40m |
$300 |
$400 |
$100 |
| $40-100m
|
$1,000 |
$1,200 |
$200 |
| More
than $100m |
$2,000 |
$2,300 |
$300 |
Chair's
Report
Appointment
to CHEA Task Force on Reauthorization
Chair Rothkopf reported that Edward Donley, a member
of the first CHEA board of directors and former chairman of Air Products
and Chemicals, Inc., has agreed to serve on the board of directors task
force on reauthorization.
President's
Report
Appointment
to the CHEA International Commission
The board of directors approved the appointment of Norma S. Rees, president
of California State University, Hayward, to the CHEA International Commission,
effective September 24, 2002.
Appointments
to the CHEA Committee on Recognition
The board of directors approved the appointments of Ron Cowell, president,
the Education and Leadership Center and Margaret Lee, president, Oakton
Community College, to serve on the committee on recognition for the
term January 2003 - December 2005.
Appointments
to the CHEA Specialized/National Advisory Panel
The board of directors approved the reappointments of Kayem Dunn, executive
director of the Foundation for Interior Design Education Research; Olive
Kimball, chief executive officer of the National Accrediting Agency
for Clinical Laboratory Sciences; and Suzanne Shaw, executive director
of the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications,
to the Specialized/National Advisory Panel for the term January 2003
- December 2005.
Recognition
Report
Vice President of Accreditation Services Judith Watkins
reported that, to date, the committee on recognition has recommended
57 organizations to be eligible for recognition review. Forty-two (42)
accrediting organizations have completed the recognition process. An
additional 13 will complete recognition this year. By December 2003,
all of the original cohort of 56 organizations that were part of CHEA
will have completed recognition, joined by several organizations that
are new to CHEA.
The next meeting
of the committee on recognition is scheduled for November 25-26, 2002
in Washington, DC.
Governmental
Relations Report
Vice President for Governmental and External Relations
Diane Rogers presented an update on recent congressional activity and
reauthorization of the Higher Education Act. Two hearings, one in the
Senate on distance education and one in the House on accreditation,
will be held during the next several weeks. President Eaton has been
asked to be a witness on the accreditation panel as has Charles Cook,
director of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges Commission
on Institutions of Higher Education. Vice President Rogers outlined
the issues to be addressed in the accreditation hearing, namely, accountability,
"political correctness," the cost of accreditation, and decoupling
accreditation and Title IV.
Vice President Rogers
reviewed the timeline and discussed CHEA's participation in a number of
higher education community meetings working on developing community-wide
proposals for reauthorization. She stated that the major issues are expected
to be access, retention, persistence/graduation rates, increased loan
limits, and additional dollars for student aid programs. With respect
to accreditation, Vice President Rogers reported that the key issues were
accountability, consumer information, distance education, transfer of
credit and operational improvements. The Board requested periodic updates
on key issues and events.
Council
of Regional Accrediting Commissions
President Eaton,
reporting for Sandra Elman, Chair of the Council of Regional Accrediting
Commissions (C-RAC), indicated that she and vice president Watkins attended
the C-RAC biannual retreat held in August, 2002. Two main initiatives
in which C-RAC is engaged are a grant with the Pew Charitable Trust
and exploratory efforts to establish a commission on international accreditation.
Specialized/National
Accrediting Association Advisory Panel
President Eaton, reporting for George Peterson, Chair
of the Specialized/National Accrediting Association Advisory Panel,
indicated that the panel last met on September 4, 2002. Members have
agreed to focus on four strategic issues: globalization, accountability,
cost of accreditation, and alternative delivery systems. Globalization
and accountability are to be the main areas of attention this year.
The panel also discussed the 2003 Enhancing Usefulness conference and
the pending reauthorization of the Higher Education Act. The panel will
meet again in February, 2003.
There being no
further business, the meeting was adjourned at 11:00 am.
The next meeting
of the Board of Directors is January 27, 2003. The board meeting will
be held in conjunction with the CHEA 2003 Annual Conference in Phoenix,
Arizona.
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