Present: Prof. D. Reiss, Prof T. Lumumba-Kasongo, Dean Martinez, S. Sloan, C. Bellomo and M. McCune

Professor Lumumba-Kasongo agreed to chair the meeting in Prof. Munoz absence.

1). Minutes of the last meeting (April 15th) will be completed by Susan Sloan and we agreed to approve them through e-mail.

2). Admisiions and Financial Aid Charge
The Committee felt that the revised charge presented by Prof. Reiss reflects the mission the committee wishes to pursue. Prof. Lumumba-Kasongo was pleased that collaboration with the Enrollment Management Team was detailed in this revision. Dean Martinez questioned the need of the committee to review admissions literature. The question of timing was brought up in relation to the need to have these materials printed in a timely fashion. M. McCune stated that this was very important to students and felt this statement should not be removed. It was agreed that materials could be reviewed in the fall for the following year.

MOTION presented by Dean Martinez, 2nd by Prof. Reiss
I move that the Admissions and Financial Aid Committee accept the revised working version (Spring 2003) of the admissions and financial aid faculty committee charge presented by Prof. Reiss to be adapted as the new charge of the Admissions and Financial Aid Faculty Committee. MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY.

3) Student Survey
M. McCune reported that out of an estimated 270 surveys, 70 surveys had been handed in thus far. She expects to receive additional completed surveys this week as well but she will begin the tallying of the questions toward the end of the week. S. Sloan devised excel spread sheets for Meghan to use when tallying the questions.

General observations from Meghan: students have spent 30-45 minutes completing the survey so students are excited about the survey. Freshmen were confused and disappointed that they were not asked to complete the survey. Meghan explained to these students that a survey was to be given to them separately. Off-campus students had their surveys sent to their campus mail box. A few of them have been returned.

Committee members then moved to a general discussion of how and when the committee will deal with the numerous comment sections of the survey. Meghan will be tallying the non-comment questions but the committee felt that the " when and how" we deal with the comment questions will need to be addressed at our next meeting. All members feel that the analysis of this survey will not be completed this year and will need to be addressed next year as well. Meghan asked Dean Green to speak at the Student Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees. Dean Green agreed to invite her in addition to the students elected to serve on the committee. She will be addressing the tenure question and the findings of this survey and her work at Cornell will be used in her comments to the Board.

MOTION TO ADJOURNED was made by Prof. Lumumba-Kasongo and 2nd by Dean Dean Martinez.

Next Meeting: May 6th at 12:15pm

Respectfully submitted,
Cathleen Bellomo
Director of Financial Aid