1. Automatic Scholarships- NO!
   
   • work with UNC (may be internal, not automatic)
   • work with students to help them prepare applications that demonstrate their strengths
   • too many negatives with being automatic
   • coming to NCSSM is already a 2-year scholarship
2. Extra Support of Counselors - Yes!
   
   • Ask more questions (of students) prior to coming here (Find out more about emotional problems, learning disabilities)
   • Help in dealing with at-risk student
3. More food and entertainment on Campus - Yes!
4. Maintain diversity of student body - Yes!
5. Wiring Dorm Rooms - Yes!
   
   • limited access a good idea (we should be able to shut access of at 1:00 AM for example)
   • students have similar access at home, so they won’t have to give this up by coming here.
   • Initial adjustment period my be tough, need to help students with time management
6. Access to School - Security (did not get to this issue)

Faculty Enhancement (Welfare)

1. Need for financial support for training and release time for staff development.
   
   • Need significant blocks of time
   • Become 11 month employees
   • Release time for quarter, semester
2. Improved support for residential program
3. Need some special initiative for residential program, similar to the EFC and distance learning initiatives
4. Need for faculty to participate in professional programs, state and national
   
   • need financial support to attend
   • need a way to make missing school for such activities less demanding on other faculty, those who have to stay behind and substitute
5. Classrooms Needs
   
   • Many classrooms were designed for smaller classes, classes now much larger
   • Classes are very poorly equipped for multi-media, even simple computer project lacking
6. We need to do a better job of spreading the word about the good things we are doing.
7. National Certification: We weren’t sure that this was worthwhile for our faculty.

Academic and Technology Issues:

1. We should quickly move from the current All-in-One system to a Window-based system on campus, but this will require a great deal of training time for faculty and staff.
2. Upgrading the campus word processing, email, and databases should happen immediately. Again, there must be training and time set aside to make the transition.
3. This group did not think that the fact that there is an increase in Special Study Options implies that we need more interdisciplinary courses. There are problems with the Special Study Options, including teacher overload, administrative hassles, scheduling. While students clearly want the SSOs it is not clear why, - they want small group experience, want more on their transcripts, they want to have a sense of control?
4. Instead of creating more interdisciplinary courses, we could offer more electives, but this would require additional faculty.
5. Creating interdisciplinary courses in a separate issue. Departments need to continue to evaluate courses. In the past, departments have decided against more interdisciplinary course.
6. In terms of accreditation, this group wishes the process were less of a burden.