Agenda for CID Meeting November 28, 2018. Reaud 202 3:30 pm
CID Attendees: Sunny Lei, Mark Mengerink, Jeremy Alm, Edythe Kirk, Larry Allen, Kakoli Bandyopadhyay, Wendy Greenidge, Diane Mason, Dan Chilek, T.C. Ho, Liv Haselbach, Brian Craig, Hsing-Wei Chu.
Guests: Kenneth Evans, Craig Ness, Pamela Comer
1. Presentation on McNair Scholar program with handout (attached) by Pamela Comer. Please encourage faculty to be mentors
2. Presentation and discussions on Finances/budgets led by Craig Ness and Dr. Evans. Both a handout and a powerpoint are attached. The powerpoint includes slides from the Provost Kickoff presentation by Mr. Ness earlier this semester. Some highlights of the discussion include:
- The presentation mainly focused on different methodologies for university budgeting that are used in the United States and their pros and cons, plus some important terminology.
- In the spring Lamar will start with a strategic plan process that should include rethinking the methodology for budgeting, with most likely retention of the incremental method for stability but as a hybrid with some Responsibility Center Management (RCM) to stimulate activity.
- HEF funds should be available soon.
- Chairs encouraged to speak with Deans on budget as the Deans have recently undergone training. More training for chairs will be in the future.
- This is a bit of flexibility of how to spend funds within units, but make sure salaries are intact.
- One of the most important things to help with the budget is to increase enrollment.
- President graciously agreed to meet independently for specific unit questions/issues.

Executive Committee 2018/2019
Liv Haselbach Natalie Tindall Jeremy Alm Larry Allen Dan Chilek

Future CID Meetings and Tentative Topics 2018/2019
January 23, 2019
3:30-4:30
Reaud 202
Faculty Evaluations Recap Plus
February 27, 2019
3:30-4:30
Reaud 202
Greg Marsh: Institutional Research. How Lamar calculates pass rates, etc. (confirmed)
March 27, 2019
3:30-4:30
Reaud 202
Staff compensation, classification, temp. pools, etc. HR representative will attend.
April 24, 2019
3:30-4:30
Reaud 202
Evening and Saturday Classes: Collection of pros and cons from past experiences.

Respectively submitted by Liv Haselbach Nov. 29, 2018.
Cc: Ness, Evans, Knowles w/o attachments