Board of Trustees
October 10, 2024
The North Arkansas College Board of Trustees met in regular session on Thursday 10, October 2024 in the Bennie Ellis board room. Chair Pledger called the meeting to order at 3:00 p.m. Trustees Don Tomlinson, Scott Miller, Pam Henry, Debbie Johnson, Luke Feighert, and Sarah Newman were present.
North Arkansas College personnel attending included Dr. Rick Massengale, Tavonda Brown, Richard Stipe, Dr. Matt Cardin, Mel Klipp, Jo Adams, Kris Greening, Brandon Cone, Micki Somers, Dr. Rodney Arnold, Jason Patience, and Harrison Daily Times guest, Scott McDonald.
Approval of Agenda
Chair Pledger asked if there were any changes to the agenda as presented. There being none a motion was made, unanimously approved.
Regular Reports
Finance Report: Richard Stipe shared the E&G and Auxiliary budget activities through September 2024.
In the E&G fund, Richard Stipe stated the total monthly revenue was $907,287, and the expenditures ended at $1,173,626. The year-to-date total of revenues was $6,439,700, and expenses were $4,475,091.
Auxiliary: The month's revenue totaled $73,170, and the expenditures totaled $63,580. The year-to-date revenues were $807,122, and expenses were $455,747. He noted that trend lines are similar to the previous year.
Mr. Stipe provided an update on the CRMI building, noting that there are now footings, and we can expect to see progress.
President's Report:
Dr. Massengale praised the Men’s and Women’s basketball players for their volunteer work with the community including Master Gardner’s, Boone County Library, Agency on Aging of NW Arkansas, and many other events. He spoke about the involvement of faculty, staff, and students with the 2024 ag娱乐官网 Intramurals Corn Hole tournament. He said he gives the opportunity to be with the students on a different level. Dr. Massengale recognized the 2024 ACC Honorees, Whitney Sutterfield named the Academic All-Star, Mandy Kilbourn named the Outstanding Staff, and Jennifer Usrey named the Outstanding Faculty of the Year.
Dr. Massengale broke down the Fall 2024 enrollment compared to other two- year community colleges. He noted that our total enrollment the past 5 years is up by 24.7%. Trustee Miller asked if we track the area high schools, trends, and where we are making progress. Dr. Massengale said we do track and there is a new movement pushed by the Arkansas Higher of Education to receive enhanced high school diplomas. Which led to more students taking concurrent classes to earn college credit. He ended his report by announcing the focus on Music and Arts in 2025.
Consent Agenda
The consent agenda included the September regular meeting and special meeting minutes.
Chair Pledger asked for a motion to approve the Consent Agenda. Trustee Johnson made the motion, which was seconded by Trustee Newman, and unanimously approved.
Monitoring Report
Tavonda Brown and Mandy Kilbourn presented the October monitoring report, Student Success. Mrs. Brown discussed objectives that align with our strategic plan: vision 2025. She began by speaking about student success and student transfers. She stated in 2022, transfers to AR 4-year with 30 earned ACTS course hours were 27 and 37 in 2023. Transfer to AR 4-year with an associate degree were 66 in the year 2021, 81 in the year 2022, and 87 transfers in 2023. She stated that MSU and CFO are not listed and when a student transfers to the border colleges, we do not receive credit with our performance funding. She listed transfer strategies are Spring Transfer Fair, College visits, recruiter visits, 2 + 2 agreements, University Center, and purpose first/advising sessions.
She discussed student retention from the years 2015-2023. The initial enrollment status for full-time students was 53% in 2018-2019, 58% in 2020-2021, 55% in year 2021-2022, and 59% in 2023-2023. Mrs. Brown listed retention strategies for free tutoring, onsite housing, student organizations, and purpose first/advising sessions. She broke down percentages of student completion from the years 2011-2020. She stated the tracking is complete using IPEDS 150% graduation rate, which is the percentage of full-time, first-time, degree/certificate-seeking students in a particular year (cohort) that receive a degree or certificate within 150% of the time. Completion strategies include Academic maps, Academic and Holistic support, prior learning assessment, at risk interventions, 15 to Finish, and student satisfaction survey.
Mrs. Brown gave the results of the student satisfaction survey administered in spring 2024, with 62.2% strongly agreeing to recommend ag娱乐官网. She spoke about the results of the CCSSE 2024 service satisfaction survey. She listed student success strategies such as co-curricular offerings, adulting 101 life skills, engagement, Pete’s pantry, triage, and referrals, supporting parenting students, and employment.
The Chair Pledger adjourned the meeting at 3:55 p.m.
