Upcoming:  February 18, 2025 
Last:  December 10, 2024 

 

Committee Goals

• Promoting the integration of physical, mental and environmental health and wellness into college programs in education, operations and public service
• Instilling a culture of physical, mental, emotional, and environmental health and wellness at the institution
• Implementing programs that support physical, mental, emotional, and environmental health and wellness on campus and within the community
• Assisting with, and making recommendations for identifying the effective use of resources to increase the physical, mental, emotional, and environmental health and wellness of the campus and surrounding communities
• Annual Committee Goals Report

Composition

• The membership of the committee is ideally composed of at least one member from the following college areas: Administrative Faculty, Academic Faculty, Classified Staff, Human Resources Representative, Student Representative, and Facilities. A student representative is appointed through the Associated Students of Western Nevada (ASWN)
• Committee memberships may fluctuate due to external constraints, e.g., funding reductions for personnel, etc. or the creation of other relevant committees. 
• Committee members serve one-year terms starting in August after the spring appointments or immediately upon interim appointments. Committee members may serve more than one term
• Committee members are expected to contribute to the process and obligations of the committee
• A committee member who misses three meetings in an academic year without an excused absence is subject to recall

Membership

• Nigel Harrison - Chair
• Shannon Covey - Secretary/Recorder
• Mary Gillespie - Academic Faculty
• Stephanie Bishcoff - Academic Faculty
• Martin Schmidt - Administrative Faculty
• Elizabeth Best - Administrative Faculty
• Kyle Kelly - Administrative Faculty
• Cameron Carr - Administrative Faculty
• Tracy Mendibles - Administrative Faculty
• Hilda Villafana - Classified
• Jeff Erickson - Facilities Services
• Cindy Lepe - H&HS Rep
• Matt Shafer - Media Services
• Ed Millim - Security
• Logan McAlister - Student Representative

Officers

A. The Chair's duties shall be to:

• Establishing a meeting schedule for the committee;
• Presiding at meetings of the committee; 
• Sending out an agenda for the meeting, ideally three days prior to the meeting;
• Serving as a tiebreaker for all votes taken by the committee requiring a majority; 
• Communicating with the College Council regarding major actions approved by its reporting committees

B. The Secretary/Recorder's duties shall be to:

• To take roll and record minutes at all meetings, and
• Maintain, on the committee's website:
  • All meeting agendas
  • All meeting minutes
  • All committee reports
• Transmit such records in a timely manner to committee members and others as directed by the committee

Committee Bylaws

Bylaws of the WNC Healthy Campus & Environment Committee