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CURC Steering Committee
November 7, 2000 Conference Call Minutes
Present: Julie Aplington, Craig Barry, Dale Ekart, Pam Flattich, Rob
Gogan, Keefe Govus, Krista Henkels, Pete Pasterz, Erica Spiegel, Christine
Von Kolnitz, Kurt Teichert, Pat Chase
A] Committees
1] Outreach
a. Web Page [see outline below]
Kurt --
There is potential and benefit to having NRC host the CURC web site.
Hosting,
members only gate keeping, content, would work well there.
Info. supported by Earth Systems can still be on the CURC site with a
link back to the Earth Systems location. There might be some difficulty
in NRC handling some of the more in-depth stuff like archiving of RECYC-L.
Suggestion that we start fresh with our site using the outline developed
as a starting point due to the need to restructure the site and make
it more a “CURC” product. Style-wise we could follow the
style established in the brochures used for regionals which follow NRCs
style. Need to make this conversion happen in the next month or so because
Kurt’s facilitation of the move is a short-term commitment. Kurt
will work with the web page committee to figure out what needs to be
done to make outline our web site and will talk to NRC about options,
steps to move the CURC page to their site.
According to Craig we need to voice any concerns or technological needs
to NRC now because there is a tech committee looking at their web site,
abilities, etc. They are rethinking style, user-friendliness, etc.
Erica, with friendly amendment by Kurt: Motion to proceed with creating
a new CURC web site, based on the NRC web site, which will replace the
CURC Earthsystems web site by Dec. 31, 2000. Dale seconds. Motion Carries.
Kurt will work with Fritz to create an MOU (memo of understanding) outlining
what the CURC/Earthsystems link or relationship is.
Web committee will handle or arrange for more information/descriptions
to be added to the outline so we truly can build the site from the outline.
b. Affiliations [NWF/CE, APPA], Standards
On hold for next call.
2]Conferences
Satellite
teleconference will be Feb 22 1-3 EST. Dale has a flyer and will distribute
in the
next few days. Speakers, content, scripts, etc.
have been developed. Host information is in the flyer. Looking at having
speakers & videos to keep it more interesting. If you have a video
or know of one, share it with Dale. Content of the conference and videos
wanted is geared toward waste prevention, recycling and procurement.
UNLV, Brown, Northeastern and Seattle have been asked to provide some
video. Roger Guzowski, Jack DeBell, Ann Felkel, Denny Clark are speakers
selected by US EPA.
Regionals
Luke
going to Yale and N TX this month to confirm sites. Dale has
an offer from Utah in Salt Lake City to do something in April
in conjunction with an SRO event and is holding the offer for now.
Precongress workshop made $1300 this year.
3]Purchasing
On hold for another call.
4]Membership
On hold for another call.
B] Council Leader Retreat
Waiting to secure funding to move forward with plans for this. No firm
dates or other information at this time.
C] Work Plan review/preview
Need to begin looking at our work plan for next year (begins April 1).
Deadline is Jan. 5 for submitting work plan to NRC. Julie will send Pete
minutes related to work plan from our meeting in NC and Pete will compile
and send it out to steers.
Each committee chair should look at their section of the work plan (from
meeting in NC) and figure out cost associated with that.
D] Other
CURC steering committee calls will change from the first Tuesday of
the month to the first Wednesday of the month beginning with December
6, 2000. Call time will remain noon Eastern.
Web Page Suggestions
Style Issues: 10/31/00
Professional Image: We need to create a professional image and be consistent
by using it in everything (correspondence, brochures, web, etc.) we do.
Image includes following:
Logo
Color Theme
Font
Buttons
The style needs to be worked into a graphic standard for CURC so that
anyone who wants to create content for the page knows what font, size,
colors, etc to use and any other standards we want to specify. Once a
person or persons has created their content then they need to know where
to send the content for web site publishing. We need to have information
such as name, e-mail address, and phone number of the web page contact
for CURC. Right now that looks like Kurt?
CURC Web Page Outline Draft
I. Main Page
a. About CURC
i. Mission
ii. Goals/ Strategic Plan
iii. Steering Committee
1. Who
2. Meeting info
3. How to get elected and when
iv. Membership info
1. Join Now Page or
2. Link to join NRC page
3. Links to join SRO pages (maybe just to NRC affiliates page)
v. Membership Benefits (long list)
vi. Minutes
vii. History
viii. Web Page Graphic Standards/Web Page Contact Info (Kurt?)
b. Events
i. Regional Conferences/ Contact Info
ii. Other Conferences
1. NRC, SWANA, ETC
iii. Meetings, Other
c. Members Only
i. Profiles/ Membership Directory
ii. Nuts and Bolts Cookbook
iii. Promotions and Education Cookbook
iv. Jobs
1. Profiles/ Job Descriptions
2. Listings
v. Standards
vi. Contracts
vii. Buy Recycled, Partnerships, Buying Cooperatives
viii. Policies
ix.
Peer Network Section or “Ask the Expert”
x.
Virtual Program Tours (maybe not in members only) Should be of a successful
segment of a program.
xi. Recyc-l Archives ?? Has it been decided to make this members only
??
xii. Frequently Asked Questions (maybe in About CURC section)
xiii. Newsletter
d. Search
e. Other information/Sites
i. VSC
ii.
Resource Library
iii. Earthday, ARD, NWF Campus Ecology, etc.
iv. Activism Links
Other Ideas if Resources Allow:
Quick Quiz: reference NACUFS
Reference Article Library: reference NAEB
10 reasons to join CURC section: reference NACUFS
Internships
Blueprint for Sustainable Campuses
Recycling Heroes
Collegiate Website of the Month
Everything in Italics is content that needs to be created by someone.
The outline is not in any specific order. If you would like to put it
in order feel free.
http://www.nacufs.org (Assoc of College and University Food Services)
http://www.nacubo.org
(Natl Assoc of College and University BusinessOfficers)
http://www.scup.org
(Society of College and University Planners)
http://www.appa.org (APPA- Higher Ed Facilities)
http://www.indiana.edu/~acui (Assoc of College Unions International)
http://www.naeb.org
(Natl Assoc of Education Buyers)
http://www.civsa.org (Collegiate Info and Visitors Services Association)
http://www.acpa.nche.edu (American College Personnel Association)
The outline
listed "Other Ideas if Resources Allow".
Here are what some of those ideas might look like:
"Professional Job Profiles" section
with GENERIC job descriptions (for a good example see http://www.indiana.edu/~acui/acuires/jobprof.htm
"Peer Network" section directs members to "experts" in
a particular area of interest. For a good example, see http://www.nacufs.org/resources/peer/
"Virtual Program Tours" section to feature some campus recycling
programs (maybe 2 programs per month). This makes members feel "special" and
they'll want to come back each month. For an example, see http://www.nacufs.org/resources/virtual_tour/
Add a "10
Reasons to Join CURC" section
(if we can even think of 10 reasons to join). For an example, see http://www.nacufs.org/membership/inst.asp
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