The Senate went into executive session for consideration of an Honorary Degree nomination. Individual Reports 1. As a result of current revenue and capital funding expectations, the projected growth of UNCW for 2008 has been revised downward from 12,500 to 11,000. It appears the average SAT score will be over 1100. One downside of this positive development is its negative effect on the UNCW effort to recruit African American students.
Private schools offer much better scholarship packages.
Overall minority student enrollment, including Latino and Asian students, has increased, but African American enrollment is lagging behind university goals. The Chancellor is opposed to a tuition increase to raise faculty salaries, believing that the appropriation for such increases should come from the state legislature, and that such increases create an unnecessary conflict of interest for faculty with students. If there is a tuition increase, the UNCW administration intends to use the larger share of the funds generated to raise scholarships and address the issue of compacted salaries for lower-paid employees. The Chancellor is also concerned to find a way to improve faculty benefits. President Snowden Offered thanks to the Administration for listening to Faculty concerns and to the Steering Committee for their efforts.