Sub-committee Title – Alumni/Parent/Student Groups

Current Practices	Opportunities	Questions and Findings
1 UNC Tuition Waiver & Currently no cost to attend NCSSM		Will tuition waiver continue? Will UNC GA institute tuition to attend NCSSM? How will students with economic need attend NCSSM?
2 Academic AP Based college credit College level courses – British Literature & WECS, Research in Chem. 156 School Days NCSSM Controls Calendar, Class Schedule, Courses, Admissions, & testing.	Unnecessary repetition of course – ex. multi variable, British literature NCSSM courses reflected in the UNC course catalog DPI Governance – 180 days UNC GA may provide guidelines	NCSSM is more rigorous than the typical DPI School. DPI’s end of year testing is not an accurate measurement of NCSSM’s students.
3 SGA President, Alumni President, Parent Chair, Foundation Chair serve as liaisons on BOT. The Liaisons report at the regular meetings and on certain important issues NCSSM BOT membership represents 13 Congressional Districts. .	The SGA President become a voting member on BOT. Current BOT administrative responsibilities shift to UNC BOG BOT focus on the school’s educational mission Students will take elections seriously if the role is more visible and involved in the BOT.	UNC constituent’s leadership boards have voting representatives. Will the NCSSM Alumni President, Parent Chair,Foundation Chair serve in that capacity? As UNC Constituent how will BOT oversight change? How will Liaison role change? If SGA President is minor how to insure confidentiality?
4. Parent Involvement – currently Parents have numerous opportunities to partner with NCSSM Communication Volunteerism Parent Council Fundraising	Communication – NCSSM could partner with UNC Printing potentially reducing costs and access. Additional resources for programmatic events – such as parents council meetings, alumni events, phonathons.	Wants to maintain the Administration to parent lines of communication. NCSSM Students are minors and need continuous parent involvement between the Administration, faculty staff & their child.
5. NCSSM has built and maintains significant, leading-edge resources on campus – both faculty and facilities – to fulfill its student and outreach educational missions, i.e. distance learning, etc.	Constituency may allow the school to improve and expand its programs by better utilizing similar resources located at other UNC campuses, especially in the RTP area	How much will UNC want to leverage the school’s resources for its own programs? How will constituency affect the direction of the school’s programs and mission? How will this impact students and faculty? What does UNC gain from NCSSM?
6. NCSSM is not a clone of UNC or Duke. Not associated with any specific institution. The school has developed a unique living/learning culture among its students and faculty over 25 years UNC Schools have Pepsi.	May impede accomplishments. May add resources. Mentorship program may benefit. Repair and renovations funding may increase. May have tenure for faculty. Will the School lose it’s individuality, such as having Coke machines	Level the playing field? Will NCSSM be beholden to certain vendors? Will NCSSM have to conform? Will NCSSM lose their unique identity? Will NCSSM campus culture be influenced by UNCGA?
7 While NCSSM’s Alumni Association Board has worked hard over the past 10 years to build itself into a viable and important resource for alumni and the school, the Board still needs significant support from its members and from school staff to grow into a more effective organization.	Constituency with other UNC campuses that already have well-established alumni associations may offer our Board valuable guidance and expertise from which to learn and improve	What formal relationships, i.e. professional association and support, exist between the UNC campuses’ alumni associations? How can our Board join in and leverage these relationships
8 NCSSM administrative staff is already working at capacity to manage the school’s many needs to keep programs and facilities running	Some administrative responsibilities may be shifted to UNC GA, freeing NCSSM staff to better focus on other needs that now are getting less attention	Constituency may also bring with it more administrative responsibilities for school staff – accounting, reporting, legal, etc. Will UNC GS expand the school’s staff to support any added responsibilities?

Current Practices

Opportunities

Questions and Findings

1 UNC Tuition Waiver & Currently no cost to attend NCSSM

Will tuition waiver continue? Will UNC GA institute tuition to attend NCSSM? How will students with economic need attend NCSSM?

2 Academic

AP Based college credit

College level courses –

British Literature &

WECS, Research in Chem.

156 School Days

NCSSM Controls Calendar, Class Schedule, Courses, Admissions, & testing.

Unnecessary repetition of course – ex. multi variable, British literature

NCSSM courses reflected in the UNC course catalog

DPI Governance – 180 days

UNC GA may provide guidelines

NCSSM is more rigorous than the typical DPI School. DPI’s end of year testing is not an accurate measurement of NCSSM’s students.

3 SGA President, Alumni President, Parent Chair, Foundation Chair serve as liaisons on BOT. The Liaisons report at the regular meetings and on certain important issues

NCSSM BOT membership represents 13 Congressional Districts. .

The SGA President become a voting member on BOT.

Current BOT administrative responsibilities shift to UNC BOG

BOT focus on the school’s educational mission

Students will take elections seriously if the role is more visible and involved in the BOT.

UNC constituent’s leadership boards have voting representatives. Will the NCSSM Alumni President, Parent Chair,Foundation Chair serve in that capacity?

As UNC Constituent how will BOT oversight change?

How will Liaison role change?

If SGA President is minor how to insure confidentiality?

4. Parent Involvement – currently Parents have numerous opportunities to partner with NCSSM

Communication

Volunteerism

Parent Council

Fundraising

Communication – NCSSM could partner with UNC Printing potentially reducing costs and access.

Additional resources for programmatic events – such as parents council meetings, alumni events, phonathons.

Wants to maintain the Administration to parent lines of communication. NCSSM Students are minors and need continuous parent involvement between the Administration, faculty staff & their child.

5. NCSSM has built and maintains significant, leading-edge resources on campus – both faculty and facilities – to fulfill its student and outreach educational missions, i.e. distance learning, etc.

Constituency may allow the school to improve and expand its programs by better utilizing similar resources located at other UNC campuses, especially in the RTP area

How much will UNC want to leverage the school’s resources for its own programs? How will constituency affect the direction of the school’s programs and mission? How will this impact students and faculty?

What does UNC gain from NCSSM?

6. NCSSM is not a clone of UNC or Duke. Not associated with any specific institution.

The school has developed a unique living/learning culture among its students and faculty over 25 years

UNC Schools have Pepsi.

May impede accomplishments. May add resources. Mentorship program may benefit. Repair and renovations funding may increase. May have tenure for faculty.

Will the School lose it’s individuality, such as having Coke machines

Level the playing field?

Will NCSSM be beholden to certain vendors?

Will NCSSM have to conform?

Will NCSSM lose their unique identity?

Will NCSSM campus culture be influenced by UNCGA?

7 While NCSSM’s Alumni Association Board has worked hard over the past 10 years to build itself into a viable and important resource for alumni and the school, the Board still needs significant support from its members and from school staff to grow into a more effective organization.

Constituency with other UNC campuses that already have well-established alumni associations may offer our Board valuable guidance and expertise from which to learn and improve

What formal relationships, i.e. professional association and support, exist between the UNC

campuses’ alumni associations? How can our Board join in and leverage these relationships

8 NCSSM administrative staff is already working at capacity to manage the school’s many needs to keep programs and facilities running

Some administrative responsibilities may be shifted to UNC GA, freeing NCSSM staff to better focus on other needs that now are getting less attention

Constituency may also bring with it more administrative responsibilities for school staff – accounting, reporting, legal, etc. Will UNC GS expand the school’s staff to support any added responsibilities?