Board Committee Reports • Executive Committee and Governance (Jeff Hensler, Dania Cochran)
Chair Hensler reported that the executive committee has been very busy. They have engaged faculty quite a bit and have had a couple of meetings with them. He added that we are moving in the right direction with the new shared governance document. Dr. Cochran reported that as part of shared governance, all the board policies and procedures are being revised to follow these new norms. The Board Executive Committee will review all these revisions. • Academic Affairs Committee (Jeff Charbonneau) Trustee Charbonneau reported that when our students are here, they are progressing toward their degrees, so we need to make sure we are providing what they need to get there. He added that the foundational improvements that are happening are key. It comes back to the great faculty and staff that are moving things forward. There is a lot of great work within Adaptive University Council: reimagining what advising might look like, a three-year bachelor’s degree and what that might look like. The group is not targeting anything specific, but there is a need to look at this as an option since it is happening nationwide. Faculty are leading this effort. The third highlight is the work that is happening to standardize a scheduling process for students. The team is looking at everything to see what standard meeting blocks might look like. Predictable schedules are important for our students. • Finance and Administration Committee (Ray Conner) Trustee Conner reported that the committee met earlier this week and received updates on fall enrollment and the impact it has on our final budget. They received updates on the increase in retention and four-year graduation rates. They also discussed the fact that the overall higher education markets in Washington state are still low. We need to answer the question of how we will respond to theoretical impacts on what we are seeing in the market today. We are a market leader in capital planning on the environmental side. This is an important topic for students so we should use this to our advantage. Vice President Klucking added that CWU received an AASHE Stars Gold rating for our three-year report on sustainability. We received one of only four of these awards in the state. He added that Finance and Administration is working on scenario planning. The team is developing budgets to go with each scenario and developing strategies on how we would handle each scenario. They are starting with a five- year plan. • Student Engagement and Success Committee (Robert Nellams) Trustee Nellams reported that we will go into a deep dive of enrollment management later in the meeting, so he highlighted a couple of things. We had a record number of “on the spot” admissions. We had 87. We have stabilized financial aid, and we have improved our year over year first time in college retention to 73 percent. Total spring to fall re-enrollment is 84 percent, so there is a lot of really good things that are happening on that front. In the student development and belonging, and the Multicultural Center, we provided 100 different programs and served over 4300 students. The board will visit the Multicultural Center later today. In addition, we have expanded the Veteran’s Center, provided 182 workshops for Career Services, and the SLICE Leadership Program was launched. In Health and Wellness, a director was hired in Case Management, so the Office of Health Promotion is fully staffed. Through Call Care almost 1700 students were served, and in Student Counseling Services, over 670 unique students were served. That is a 40 percent increase in crisis services. In the federal grants program, we have the TRIO Student Support Services. They have served over 200 low-income students who are first generation. The Education Opportunities Center achieved the goal of serving and educating 1000 low-income students on the FAFSA and college applications. There is just a lot of very good work happening in SES even though there are staffing and funding challenges. We just need to make sure we are investing in places that are making a difference.
Chair Hensler thanked the committee chairs for the new format of the board reports.
3 Board of Trustees Minutes October 16, 2025
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