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CEPAC (Classified Employees Personnel Advisory
Committee)
Room B, Hannon Hall
P.O
Phone: (406) 994-6895
May 11, 2005
Commissioner Sheila Stearns
Office of the Commissioner of Higher Education
2500 Broadway
Dear Commissioner Stearns,
CEPAC would like to thank you, once
again, for the time and enthusiasm you invested in visiting the
With respect to the classified aspects of the day’s agenda, CEPAC would first like to convey the Hannon Hall staff’s appreciation of your interest in meeting with them. We regret having had to hasten the discussion, and hope a future itinerary would allow more thorough conversation.
Likewise, CEPAC members valued the opportunity of asking your opinion and advice on various priority topics. CEPAC is proud to represent and promote the classified perspective in the ownership of our campus, and endeavors to address broad-reaching governance matters, as well as more select, classified issues. As such, we were particularly interested in your plans for increasing the State contribution to pay plan funding, as well as in the details of your five to ten-year vision for the MUS. We were also gratified by your comment that your visit had offered you meaningful information which you felt appropriate to report to the Regents.
CEPAC is pleased to follow-up on the progress of supervisor training programming at MSU-Bozeman. The results of the Professional Council MAP supervisor survey are now available, and in line with classified staff input regarding supervisor training. CEPAC meets with Susan Alt tomorrow, and we understand that planning discussions are being held within various other appropriate organizations.
We were grateful to receive your description of the background for the draft compensation and philosophy objectives for Board of Regents contracts. As you know, CEPAC was invited to provide input (by both Kathy Crego and Regent Hamilton) and we are doing so appropriately.
Finally, the period for constituent participation in CEPAC’s voluntary 360 review has closed and we are analyzing the feedback. From the data seen so far, we anticipate this process will prove invaluable to CEPAC’s activities planning and service enhancement, both locally and across the MUS. We look forward to sharing a report of the review’s findings in the near future.
In conclusion, your visit was very beneficial to MSU-Bozeman, and CEPAC hopes to offer a similar invitation next year. Meanwhile, please do not hesitate to request whatever follow-up would be useful to the Regents, or yourself.
Sincerely,
Robert O’Driscoll
Signed by Bob O’Driscoll,
Eileen Baker Matthew Blazicevich
Genevieve Burmeister, Vice Chair Ray Byerly (for Robert Lack)
Sara France, Admin Assoc Rick Holland
Daniel McGuire Sheron McIlhattan
Clara Sprague Bonnie White