Student Service Committee
November 12, 2004
Members Present: Members Absent:
Janice Richards Tracie Gallego – Sick Leave
Douglas Patton, Jr Sam Gardipe, Jr – Annual Leave
Mark St. Pierre Wesley Hawkins – excused/center
Steven Potter Elizabeth Gibbons – excused/center
Gary Jones Carolyn New Holy-Williams -???
Charleen Eagle Elk Cornell Ruff – excused/center
Evelyn Eagle Bull Tawa Ducheneaux - ???
Keeley Clausen Colleen Provost - ???
Emma Gallego Connie Hammock - ???
Thalia Cook
Vienna Kills Warrior
Monique Sioux Bob
Leslie Heathershaw
Sherri Ten Fingers
Mitzi Youngman
Wendy Jacobson
Lynn Ecoffey
Loretta Red Feather
Shirley Lewis
Patricia Red Eagle
Romaine Tobacco
Ginna Arguello
Stephanie Kindle
Elizabeth Geboe - PWO Rep - HeSapa
Jennifer Sierra
Darleen Bear Killer
Susan Heathershaw
Sylvia Hollow Horn
Charles Pourier
Holly Provost
Guests:
Leslie Mesteth – Registrar Office
Shirley Brewer – Financial Aide
Lamoine Pulliam – Veterans Upward Bound
November 12, 2004
Janice Richards, President, called meeting to order at 11:15 AM.
Sylvia Hollow Horn – opening prayer
*Review of minutes dated 10-15-2004
Changes made to Excused members – Doug Patton & Ginna Arguello
*Motion to approve – Doug Patton
*2nd – Sylvia Hollow Horn
*All in favor
*Scholarships
- Shirley Brewer from Financial Aide
-provided and went over minutes from 10-4-04 Scholarship Meeting
-On 10-8-04 more funds available and had special Mtg. Minutes provided.
-Sylvia Hollow Horn ask about Grad Studies Scholarships
- No qualified applicants
- Will monies carry over to next year?
- Shirley didn’t know
*Motion to approve Scholarship Awards – Loretta Red Feather
*2nd – Lynn Ecoffey
*All in Favor
*Registrar Changes
- Leslie Mesteth from the Registrar Office
Provided paperwork for changes of the Transcript Request & Student Handbook
- Fee up to $4.00 for 1st Official
- $2.00 for each additional copy
-Requires name & address update which will help in the Billing Office
-1 free transcript per semester for Full-time Students
-Includes area for credit card payments
-discussion concerning all areas above
*Motion to approve Registrar Changes – Steven Potter
*2nd – Shirley Lewis
*All in favor
*Veterans Upward Bound
- Lamoine Pulliam & Mark St. Pierre
- Tuition Waivers for all veterans who have exhausted their G.I. Benefits
- Veterans w/ less than Honorable Discharges can get tuition waivers, but cannot
be in the Veterans Upward Bound Program
-VUB is helping Vets w/ paperwork to any discharge papers
-Janice - Is there a process set up for @ Registration?”
-Lamoine - Will go into effect Spring Registration ‘05
-Leslie M. – Computer system is now set up to show “Veteran Waiver”
- Billing Office sees so not to charge
-Lamoine – List of all Vets in VUB will be distributed @ Registration.
-Need to refund those Vets who have paid tuition
-VUB will be moving to the Lakota Fund Building
Classroom Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday – open ‘til 8:00PM
Teaching basic classes for all vets to help prepare them to be college ready
No remedial classes will be needed
-Leslie H. – copies of discharge papers in archives for those OLC has honored
-Clarification of G.I. Bill verses OLC Tuition Waiver
Break for lunch
1:00
What does Oglala Lakota University mean to us and what do we as Student Service Committee need to do to make this happen?
This was a round table discussion –
**I may not have gotten all names down with their ideas – thoughts – opinions**
*Better access to the internet
*Laptops to all students
*Library at all centers – talk in place already for one in Pine Ridge
*Diversity and bringing in other cultures
*Mark St. Pierre –Overall academics – academic enrichment
- Dormitory – serve functions & activities
-More areas of study –structure
Example: Fine Arts - our culture is about Music/Dance/Art yet we don’t offer classes to teach more of it
*Darlene Bear Killer – added to Marks comments of Fine Arts
*Janice Bear Killer – Community Needs Assessment reservation wide
- Dorms – Offer to everyone, enrolled and non-enrolled members
-Student Union Centers including Library and study centers
*Facility improvements
*Student Loans
*Centers to include dorms – gyms – more “team” athletics to promote the talent on our
reservation
*Adult Education (Mark) discussion over having community workshops
(Susan) is apart of C/CED however not enough money to provide
quality w/shops and when provided not much success.
*Expand the Masters Programs
*Open Door Policy
-admissions process will need to be changed
*Jennifer Sierra – Education Dept. is already doing a lot of these things and successful
*Deliverance of classes – Do we stick with one 3 hour classes or change to three 1 hour
classes as other institutions do.
*How will this affect our faculty? Drive time, etc.
*Shirley Brewer – Assessment – ACT’s – SAT’s or any other tests/assessments to see
where our students are academically.
-What to do w/ remedial students
- Implement proficiency exams @ end of sophomore year
*Ginna Arguello – Tuition Fees – will they need to be raised?
** CHARGE ** Raise Technology Fees
*Student Loans brought up again – Shirley B. informed that it would never happen
*Lakota Language – discussion held that we have students completing Language I & II and not able to speak.
*Look back – need to see if we are doing what we said we would do presently. Do those things first.
*Create the community assessment survey
*Meeting adjourned – 1:48 PM
- Motion by Susan Heathershaw
- 2nd - Charleen Eagle Elk
- All in favor