Ninth Study Group Meeting Minutes
7 a.m., Wednesday, June 19, 2002
Northrim Bank Building, 3111 C St., 5th Floor Conference Room
Jon Kumin and Steve Rieger, co-chairs

Format: The agenda for this meeting is in regular text. The minutes are added as notations in italics. They are intended to represent the general nature of the discussion, rather than be complete, detailed minutes. Clarifications are welcomed -- please email any to Duane Heyman at: duane@commonwealthnorth.org

Introductions -- Those present include: Sarah Barton, Steven Boyd, Milton Byrd, Jim Chapman, Betty Emerick, Charles Fahl, Jan Fredericks, Mark Foster, Alice Galvin, Jan Gehler, Lee Gorsuch, Joe Griffith, Duane Heyman, Ky Holland, Grant Hunter, Dave Kester, Nancy King, Jim Knapp, Grace Long, Ronald Miller, Rachel Morse, Pat Pitney, Jeff Staser, Niel Thomas, Tim Wiepking

Comments and questions on this study --

• Should the group mark out its own role?
  • Informed lay people
    We can make a distinctive contribution
    Help set priorities
• Is undergraduate education inadequate? (generally, in all U’s, not just U of A)
• The state’s needs in the social order
  • U system view of its own needs
  • U system objectives
  • Is the U achieving its objectives?
  • Do a gap analysis
  • Suggestions based on gap analysis
• The CWN purpose is education
  • We can contribute to the U
  • Focus on outreach
  • Identify gaps in outreach
  • What does the community want?
  • What outreach will continue on its own momentum?
• Major public policy issue: is the 1986-87 U/community college merger working out?
• Does the U provide adequate service and in the right form?
• Are rural campuses an issue?
• Identify areas of concentration:
  • Economic factors
  • Formation of intellectual capital
• Accelerated pace of change has changed the social environment
  • People need to keep up
  • Need for remediation -- people are unprepared
  • Need for K-12 integration
  • Changing nature of society
  • Ageing work force
• Tie the CWN U.R. US report concepts into this report
• Should the U transform society vs. transform individuals who will transform society?
• Is funding adequate?
  • Tuition
  • Legislature
  • Structural changes in society
  • Perception of private vs. public benefit
  • Student/public funding balance
• Lack of needs assessment
• Do student loan policies subsidize people to leave Alaska?

Visions and roles

• What is the relationship between needs and roles?
• Intellectual freedom and leadership
• Disconnects?
• Build intellectual capital
• Economic development

Needs

• Expand personal intellectual horizons
• Create thinking people
• Define questions that need to be asked and then analyzed
• Educate individuals (vs. solve social problems)
• Needs prioritization system
  • Current system
  • Effectiveness
  • Gaps
• Identify business and industry future real needs
• Timing of needs: immediate and future
• To what extent should the U reach the top tier of people vs. those without access?

Confirm next meeting and adjourn by 8 am -- On Wednesday June 26, 7 a.m., same location. Regent Mike Burns and possibly one other regent will speak.