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CURC Steering Committee
June 4, 2003 Conference Call Minutes
Present: Sheela Backen, Julie Cahillane, Pat Chase, Angie Fowler, Alana
Levine, Carolyn Noack, Pete Pasterz
Not Present: Ed Newman, Rob Gogan, Krista Henkels, Michael Youdelman
1] SC vacancies
Sheela talked to Jack DeBell about filling one of our steering
committee vacancies. Jack was going to call Pete to discuss his interest
but has not done so yet. Pete will call Jack again. We also have a vacancy
left
by Dale. No specific ideas for this position yet. All who were nominated
in our election process have been contacted and none who are eligible
are interested
or available. We can operate with fewer steers if necessary. Full capacity
and involved steers make it easier to accomplish our work plan. However,
uninvolved steers can hinder our. Pete will contact Michael to see if
he is able to stay
involved. All of us should be thinking about peers who could for the open
position(s).
2] Work Plan and Budget Update
The agenda e-mail had an attachment
with our work plan and budget as submitted this year. Pete met with
NRCs financial and executive directors to iron out our carry-forward
budget.
We have not received the quarterly budget statements NRC is supposed
to provide since 1999. Pete and the financial director went through
our budget, item by item, from the last existing quarterly statement
(1999).
The bottom line has not been finalized due to a couple lingering
discrepancies (mostly related to the regional workshop profit/loss)
but we are close.
There is also a question of whether or not we are allowed to carry
forward the $1000 NRC council allotment if we don’t spend it. Our balance
is at least $8,355.29 with potentially $9,000 more once the past fiscal
year is finalized and discrepancies are resolved. The other issue
Pete
discussed with NRC is cash flow restrictions. Our work plan and budget
were not included in the NRCs budget and work plan. NRC has asked
what our priorities are. Membership and web issues are CURCs biggest
priorities,
and integrating the ABCs into our web site will be a priority spending
item. NRC now has a person working on web site support. Julie and
Pete need to talk to Kurt Teichert about his response to our questions
about
web issues and integrating the ABCs. NRC needs to make some changes
to how council funds are reserved and tracked. Also discussed was our
membership
development plan. One of our targets will be states without an RO
agreement or states where the RO agreement has been dropped. This is
something
we will work on after the NRC congress/workshop/ ABCs issues.
3] Election of Committee chairs/Officers
HOLD till next call since
some members are missing today. Angie is interested in the Membership
Chair position. Pete is willing to continue as Chair.
a) Regional Reps – HOLD (see above)
4] Baltimore planning
a) Pre congress workshop – Pat has been working on this with Karyn.
Timing and agenda have been set. Cost is still up in the air as details
for location and food are being confirmed. Pat is checking options
in Baltimore (convention center, hotels, etc). The fee for the workshop
is dependent on costs involved with putting on the event. Once costs
are obtained from all options, Pat will send a comparison spreadsheet
to the steers. The workshop this year is being planned as an all
day
session as opposed to the half-day workshop with a general interest
session in the afternoon.
b) SC planning meeting – Historically the steering committee gets together
at the NRC congress for a planning meeting. Steers should be thinking
about if and when they’d like to have this meeting. In the past, the
meeting has been conducted on Saturday.
c) Social/network gathering[s] – Saturday night get-together? Other?
5] ABC's update
Carolyn and Julie are working on editing the ABCs draft. At
27 chapters with 3 – 14 pages per chapter, we need more than 2 people
to work on this. Julie will e-mail a couple chapters to the steers as
a sample for
input on format, style, etc. Steers should provide feedback and comments
so we can determine how to move forward with the editing process. NRC
needs to
approve any publication we sponsor. There is a plan/hope to present this
at NRC in September so our time frame is very tight. If we get short
on time,
we can consider posting/presenting some but not all chapters in September.
6] Rapid Response plan
Rob is the only one that submitted comments.
New steers need some background… For a long time CURC has talked about
providing resources and support for struggling campus programs. The letter
is a good beginning format and could be tweaked as we go along. Need
to make it clear what CURC is and the purpose of the letter. Steers can
think about and ask colleagues if they have resources or ideas that could
be added to this. We don’t want to get involved with diagnosing specific
problems at schools but we don’t want the letter to lack substance either… Need
to have an impact without taking sides. CURC can provide resources, support,
case studies at other schools, etc. We could have it be something where
we respond only if there is a request for support from a CURC member.
The member can fill us in on what kind of support is needed and thus
CURC can respond accordingly. It should be a member-service not something
we decide to pursue without request. Should get the letter in a ready-to-go
but generic format so we can share it as a template with people requesting
support. It will need to be tweaked for particular situations but we
should have something that’s ready and available.
7] Alana has a conflict with our call time. Pete will send an e-mail
with options for people to consider for a change in our scheduled call
time.
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