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CURC Steering Committee
October 3, 2000 Conference Call Minutes
Present: Julie Aplington, Craig Barry, Dale Ekart, Pam Flattich, Fritz
Franke, Rob Gogan, Keefe Govus, Krista Henkels, Pete Pasterz, Erica Spiegel
1] Congress debrief
Steering
Committee Meetings
Split
sessions went fairly well, nice to break it up and nice to be able
to get to town Sat. instead
of Friday night.
Member
Mtg.
Jack may
have the sign in sheet. Sign up list for committees/activities went
pretty well as opposed to the old "break
out" session.
Workshop
Some
people would have liked more time to network and chat/get to know
each other. Tour was a nice idea and did provide some
time for networking. Need more space or break out rooms so various
round tables aren’t competing with each other noise-wise. Round table
discussions were welcomed.
Track
Session
Coding
was a nice addition and having someone on the committee is a benefit
to CURC and will allow the ability for
us to create or direct sessions for our interest. Coding could use
icons or something to make them stand out more and be more obvious.
Booth
Nice
to have "CURC" stuff
and not just a bunch of handouts from individual schools. This worked
since we now have more
CURC specific stuff. One of the benefits of the booth is that it serves
as a gathering place for our members. NRC will be working on getting
a booth banner for each council that identifies them as such and is consistent.
Believe NRC is looking at establishing a committee for site related conference
issues, similar to the program content committee. This committee could
potentially discuss dates/timing of conference, on-site recycling and
other details.
2] Committee Reports/Discussion
A. Outreach
Web
page {job info, etc.}
Could
make job descriptions generic instead of school-specific to avoid
the problem of clearance for
posting. APPA does it this way. There are basic costs to make
updates/changes to our web site. Cost will vary based on what we
want, how complicated,
etc. At one time we discussed having a web development committee
look
at the web site to identify updates, changes, options, etc. so
we can look at the whole picture. Erica will talk to Christine
to find out the
status of this, revitalize it, identify who was going to be involved,
etc. Fritz will help with this group also. Budget for changes
can be allocated or added to next year as necessary.
RECYC-L
Would
be nice to have RECYC-L instructions or FAQs posted to the site.
This could be in the member-only site as another benefit.
These need to be developed, potential cost evaluated, added to
the site, etc. The RECYC-L use instructions could be a part of
this.
Web development
group can look at this.
Newsletter
a
couple people suggested creating a CURC newsletter to keep members
updated of activities. Suggestion to make it have some "useful" information
and not just be a newsletter for the sake of a newsletter. Krista, Craig
and Julie will discuss.
Standards {promotion, qualitative section, Campus Ecology} – Still
need more campuses to post and/or update their information. One problem
is that many schools, especially smaller ones don’t have tonnage
and find it difficult to quantify this information. It also takes time
to compile, post etc. when you have the numbers. Initially standards
were developed as a quantitative thing because that was considered easier
to identify. At this time there is some desire to explore the qualitative
(e.g. where programs fall in campus structure, etc.) aspects of programs
and have that information listed in the standards documents. Rob believes
the qualitative stuff sounds more appropriate for a member directory
than a web-based spreadsheet of data. Maybe we need to look at identifying
quantitative standards as "benchmarking" and qualitative issues
as "best practices" to make our "standards" more
understandable to campuses. We should definitely be looking into adding
greenhouse gas emission factors into standards reporting. Campus Ecology
is looking at "standards" and we’d like to convince them
to use ours. Rob and Kurt should be involved in this and Rob will send
an e-mail asking for volunteers to help with these tasks.
Cook
Book
There
is discussion to do a "nuts and bolts" cookbook
with basics of starting a campus recycling program. Don’t want
this to supercede the promotions and education cookbook. Pam, Keefe and
Karyn have volunteered to look at the nuts and bolts cookbook. Pam will
send Julie and Keefe the draft of the education/promo cookbook for input,
edits, etc.
B. Membership
16
new members since NRC in Charlotte.
C. Regionals
Luke
and Rebecca are discussing timing of site visits this week and
should get to them soon. CJ and Lanse are ready
to go when site visit is complete/approved. With EPA teleconference
we will essentially have 3 regionals and can hopefully use the
EPA event
as a trial run for the Yale and N TX regionals and future regional
options.
3] EPA Satellite
Teleconference
EPA partnering
with CURC/NRC for a February broadcast of a satellite forum on campus
waste reduction.
CURC will promote, help with speakers, etc. We need to know what the
next step is and what CURC should be doing. Craig will look into the
status of the event and planning and will communicate the information/update
to Dale, the CURC point person. Steers should be looking into ability
to host this event on their campuses and thinking of ideas for potential
speakers.
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