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Cincinnati Annual Meeting Provides a Great Experience at a Great Price

The 2009 CACUBO annual meeting was held at Northern Kentucky Convention Center in Covington, KY, October 3-5, 2009. The meeting provided an electric program that covered an extensive array of themes, ideas, and viewpoints in its four general and 35 concurrent session topics. Kathy Qualls and her program committee is to be commended for their hard work and the great speakers they made available to the attendees.

The meeting opened with an update by NACUBO president John Walda and keynote address presented by Dr. Nancy L. Zimpher titled Building Bridges for Economic Prosperity: The Education Imperative. Dr. Zimpher warned us of the dangers due to leakage in the P-20 pipeline and challenged our institutions to take a more active role in finding a solution. The first day concluded with two sets of concurrent sessions on a wide array of topics, followed by a reception at the Freedom Center, a wonderful and educational venue.

Day two began with lively caucus discussions over breakfast, followed by an excellent general session where Dr. Thomas E. Hall, Professor of Economics at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio discussed the changing factors that increasingly tie the prosperity of Higher Education to the business cycle and told us to buckle our seatbelts. The remainder of the day was filled with great concurrent sessions and networking during breaks.

Tuesday began with Maddy Dychtwald talking about the impact of our changing demographics on retirement followed by many more great sessions on a variety of topics. Our closing session was a keynote address by Frank Abagnale. His presentation on fraud was absolutely wonderful. It was informative and educational with lots of tidbits on how to protect ourselves and our institutions from fraud, and its changing face in the light of new technologies.

The annual meeting was once again a wonderful professional development event. Many thanks and our congratulations for a job well done, go to Tammy Martin and her host committee for providing an exceptional annual meeting experience. Warm thanks are also extended to all of our sponsors for their support of our program, meals, breaks, prizes, and all the little extras that make a CACUBO annual meeting so very special.

The 37th CACUBO Annual Business Meeting was called to order by President Julee Sherman at the Northern Kentucky Convention Center in Covington, KY. Julee recognized and thanked: the Retiring Board members-Sue Laskos and Kevan Buck; Annual Meeting Sponsors and Exhibitors; 2009 Board of Directors; 2009 Annual Meeting Host and Program Committees, and all CACUBO members who served on committees this past year. Julee then introduced representatives from EACUBO, SACUBO, and WACUBO. Julee Sherman, CACUBO President 2009 Tammy Martin reported the minutes from the 2008 Annual Business Meeting in Chicago. The minutes for this annual meeting will be presented to the Board at their December 2009 meeting. Changes to the CACUBO By-Laws were reviewed, accepted, and approved. The newly approved By-Laws are available on the CACUBO website.

Mary LaGrange. CACUBO Treasurer, reported the following for the fiscal year ending August 31, 2009; CACUBO had assets of $1,063,920 and CACUBO had a net deficit from operations of $8,359. There was an unrealized loss on investments of $66,651 resulting in a net deficit of $75,010. Due to unforeseen circumstances, the audit was pushed back until November 2009. Mary expressed her appreciation and thanks to the Audit and Budget and Finance Committees for their work this past year.

Tammy Martin, CACUBO secretary, summarized membership information; CACUBO has a total membership of 660 as follows: 630 are member institutions in the CACUBO Region, 30 are members outside the region, members come from 27 different states, there are 10,267 individual members from higher educational institutions and 526 from corporations, for profits, other non-profit and K-12 for a total individual membership of 10,793.

Kevan Buck presented the report of the Nominating Committee as follows: Newsletter Editor: Cuba Plain, Treasurer: Mary LaGrange, Board Member: Brian Davis, and Second Vice President: Henry DeVries. Motion passed on the above nominees.

Julee presented the 2009 President's Award to John Patterson from Pittsburg State University for his outstanding contributions to CACUBO and higher education over the last thirty years. Julee then handed the gavel over to Dave Clark.

Incoming President Dave Clark encouraged input from the CACUBO membership on ideas for professional development programs. He explained about the RFP that was going to go out soon with regard to the Leadership program. Lary Troutner was announced at the new Business Partner Coordinator. Dave encouraged members to become active volunteers for CACUBO committees. Dave introduced the 2010 Annual Meeting Host Chair, Jill Yates.

Jill Yates, chair of the 2010 Annual Meeting Host Committee, invited the membership to attend the meeting in Indianapolis on October 3-5, 2010.

Dave Clark adjourned the 2009 Annual Business Meeting at 1:30 p.m.