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2020 Administrative Heads Section Annual Meeting (Virtual)

Thursday, October 29, 2020
3:30 pm – 5:30 pm Eastern

Notes

  1. Report from Budget and Advocacy Committee – Craig Beyrouty
    1. One pagers are available on Land-grant.org as usual
    2. APLU AHS web page has descriptions and reports of what Cornerstone does for the BAA
    3. One pager reflects the unified ask for one more year, then strategic realignment will replace that strategy
    4. Footnote on the one pager complicates advocacy, so BAC will identify priorities to reduce items in footnote during its November meeting.  They will also discuss how to handle “sign-on” requests.
    5. BAC will try to identify dollar amounts for budget ask before the President’s budget is released
    6. Working closely with CARET on advocacy strategy
    7. Developing a procedure to help encourage more responses to “calls to action”
  1. AHS Rules of Operations  – Doug Steele
    1. Looking at Rules changes that would improve consistency with actual practices
      • Number of voting members per institution
      • Automatic assignments that come with chair position on various committees, ex. PBD and BAC
  1. Open Positions to Elect – M. Ray McKinnie
    1. Chair-Elect
      • Mark Rieger is changing positions to Provost, so Ken will continue as AHS Chair one more year
      • Nomination for chair-elect from Southern region is Scott Angle (UFL)
      • Nominations closed and Scott elected by acclamation
    2. Secretary
      • Nomination for Secretary from Northeast region is Leslie Parise (UVM)
      • Nominations closed and Leslie elected by acclamation
  1. Open Positions to Appoint – Ken White
    1. Advocacy Liaison (BAC and CARET)
      • Mike Bhoehm (UNE) appointed BAC Advocacy Chair
    2. Lead 21 Liaison
      • Karen Plaut (Purdue) appointed to 2-yr term on LEAD 21 Board of Directors
  1. Report from Policy Board of Directors – Tom Coon
    1. Success in House for budget increases for 1890’s and 1994’s
    2. Strategic realignment is in implementation phase with Ernie Minton as committee Chair and AHS representative.  One unknown is with NIFA reported to Congress on budget line reduction
    3. NIFA external advisory committee is being set up
    4. CARES Act had a request from ESCOP and ECOP for $300M and $80M, respectively, but it was not included in final bill, CGA is helping to get this into a future relief bill
    5. Infrastructure request is in position if an appropriate bill is introduced.  Sightlines study was updated and the overall need increased from $8.4B to $11.5B
  1. Report from Communications and Marketing Committee – Mark Rieger
    1. AHS, CES, and AES have been asked to continue assessments at $100K each, these have been approved by each Section
    2. $300K will be used to hire a C&M Director and support staff at APLU
    3. Forbes-Tate report identified 10 reasons to implement a C&M strategic plan
      • System wide contributions
      • One unified message
      • Consistent engagement
      • Blend of media tactics
      • Dedicated staff
      • Data collection and evaluation
      • Internal communication
      • Staff at 25% less cost than currently
      • Surpass effectiveness of uncoordinated conflicting messages
      • Continued dedicated effort
  1. CARET Update – Paul Patterson
    1. Planning two workshops in December and January; Selecting & Engaging CARET Delegates (Dec) for AHS and Effective Advocacy Strategy (Jan) for AHS and CARET
    2. Work underway for 2021 CARET/AHS meeting and Hill visit in March, dates to be announced next week, meeting will focus on advocacy
    3. One program difference will be Monday morning the Chairs of ESCOP, ECOP, ACOP, and ICOP will present on unique efforts of their Sections during the pandemic
    4. Rest of meeting will be similar schedule to past meetings
    5. Reminder that deadline for (re)appointing CARET Delegates is November 20
  1. Report from Lead-21 – Chandra Reddy
    1. First two sessions of current class were virtual, not sure about third session yet
    2. 76 participants in this class, over 1200 graduates total from 15 completed classes
    3. Class 17 nominations are due November 30, tuition is $9,750
    4. Alumni Association is doing well, among other activities they’ve hosted 12 virtual coffee hours so far this year
  1. Report from Food Systems Leadership Institute (FSLI) – Doug Steele
    1. New Executive Director is Sam Pardue, former dean at UGA, he is located at NCSU
    2. Working with a marketing firm to enhance visibility and understanding of program
    3. Trying to enhance the alumni association, which normally hosts a session prior to the APLU Annual Conference, but is unable to do so this year due to the virtual conference schedule
    4. Finances look good, have a small endowment started, but not focusing on that currently
  1. AHS Chair Transition – Ken White/Mark Rieger
    1. Ken White will continue as Chair until November 2021 due to Mark Rieger leaving the Administrative Heads Section