Administrators discuss KBOR meeting

A group of administrators met last Friday morning to talk about the Kansas Board of Regents meeting that happened Jan. 7 and 8. The goal of the meeting was to share observations and information from the KBOR meeting, according to David Cordle, provost. 

In the KBOR chief academic officers meeting they talked about making concurrent enrollment available statewide, according to Cordle. 

“A few of our legislators and a few of our regents, I think realized, that they had a shared interest in this,” Cordle said. “There’s an awareness that concurrent enrollment is available in an uneven way throughout the state.”

Some schools can take college courses in their high school and others cannot, according to Cordle. The goal they want to meet is to have a set number of courses that every school can take concurrently and to fix the price so some districts are not paying more than others. 

Diana Kuhlmann, vice president of administration and finance, attended the financial officers meeting. 

“As KBOR policy, once a year the internal auditors from each institution make a report out to fiscal affairs and audit committee, so that was on their January agenda and five of the six universities made those presentations,” Kuhlmann said. “Emporia State will be making their presentation to fiscal affairs and audit in March in Pittsburgh.”

Shelly Gehrke, assistant provost for enrollment management and academic success, updated the group on KBOR’s recommendations for changes to student applications. 

“There’s a group from KBOR that’s looking at admission applications, and by far, ESU has the more ‘student friendly’ application,” Gehrke said. “Many of the other schools require a student to put their high school transcript into the application to verify that they’ve had the correct classes, the correct number of units, and the correct G.P.A. We have a person who reviews them all and does that.”