Higher Education/Campus Ministry Work Area Minutes

September 19, 2006.
Present: Monty Engelmann, Karen Firos, John Gore, Christi Hemming, Toni Vincent, Ian
Weibel, Jessica Weibel.

1. Devotion.
Monty read some of the emails of his morning and asked the group to comment on how
they thought our HiEd program affected any of them.

2. Budget Proposal for 2006-07.
We went through our 2005-06 budget proposal and realistically as possible, evaluated the
legitimacy of each expenditure and came to a conclusion about including it on next year's
proposal. We have only spent 31% of the HiEd budget but 133% of the scholarship budget.
Another 31% of the HiEd budget is in the process of being transferred to the Wesley Peer
Ministry Program. Monty will draw up an outline of our proposed 2006-07 budget and circulate
it to the work area members for comments and approval.

3. New personnel coming on, old going off.
At this point, we have no indication who will be leaving the work area and who will
replace them. This year, I was not contacted about committee composition, thus had no input.
The lack of personnel information makes it more difficult to plan future program
implementation.

4. Continued support for Wesley: discussion.
Tim Tuthill has a permanent conflict with our meeting time which obviated the
discussion. Tim and Monty will get together and talk about the situation. The members present
proposed exploring a change in meeting times to accommodate Tim's schedule.

3. Reports and discussion of our HiEd program.
All of the topics were reviewed in the process of analyzing the budge. I addition:

A. Africa U. Support (Don)
Don sent an e-mail from the Tabers thanking all those who helped fill the container for
Zimbabwe. Originally the Taber's ordered a 20 foot container and were skeptical about filling it.
People from 20 states contributed 1150 boxes and bags of useful books, school supplies, hospital
and medical supplies and cold weather clothes to stuff a 40 foot container. UUMC members
contributed 507 books, 5 boxes of school supplies, 1 box of medical supplies and 1 box of empty
prescription bottles. The Tabers will report the progress of the container on their ZIM website
annmorristaber.net.

B. Budget - Peer Minister Support Fall payment to Wesley (Monty)
The $900 is in the pipeline. Wesley should receive it in about a month.
C. College/University Student-UUMC Roster (Jessica & Christi)
There doesn't seem to be such a record kept by the church. We need to put forth an effort
soon to acquire this information. A plea in Tower Alert and One Stop sign-up was suggested as a
beginning. We also need to have some kind of evolving updateable record kept in a central place
so we can continue to keep contact with our UUMC college kids.

D. Goody Bag Sunday, Dec. 10 (Martha & Toni)

E. Have-A-Heart Brunch- February 4 (Monty)

F. Host Family/Friend project (John)
John will make the Wesley Students aware of the program at a Sunday or Wednesday
gathering. HiEd needs to get a list of willing hosts and will make a request in T. Alert and the
bulletin.

G. Merit Scholarships, (Monty & J.J.)

H. Methodist Universities and College information &
Student Recognition Sunday. (Don & Ian)
Most of our materials are still intact, some will need updating. We generally agreed that
the April date would serve the best for Student Recognition Sunday. We must make a formal
request of the staff to change this date.

I. Seminary Student Support Project. (Monty )
We have no UUMC sponsored seminarians at present. We will keep this program on our
roster so it will be available for our next candidate.

J. Student e-mails. ( J.J.)
We feel this is an important effort and will continue it for the next year.

K. Van Project.- Parking, Purdue Game,11-04-'06 (Monty)
Monty is the coordinator for the group. We will share with Wesley. Our portion of the
take will be put toward a second van.

L. Web Page, Kiosk (Ian)
Ian will update our webpage.

4. Member comments or concerns.
(At the time of writing these minutes: We have an honorary new member of HiEd, Jack
Thomas Burchman, born on the day of our meeting, 09-19-06!)

5. Next Meeting October 17, 06 (unless changed by committee consultation with Tim Tuthill.)
Submitted M.D.E. 09-23-06

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