SPIG Minutes for Friday, May 21st, 2004

10-10:50 AM

Attendants: Bart Everson, Michelle Falgoust, Lanny Foss, Susan Fredine, David Lanoue, and Todd Stanislav.

The minutes of the 5-14-04 meeting were reviewed, amended, and approved.

The group discussed the upcoming conference call with the consultants, Jack Rossman and Jane Miller. The group noted four items in the letter from Cheryl Hilinski that should be addressed during the conference call:

Goals of the consultant work
Printed materials for the consultants
Timetable
Specific questions.

The group in turn discussed each item.

Goals of the consultant work
- Using your experience and knowledge of strategic planning, help us develop a strategic planning process and timetable
- Review our strategic planning process and timetable
- What are we doing well?
- What needs to be improved?
- What's missing?
- How efficient are we in doing this work?
Printed materials for the consultants
- Information about our strategic planning process and timetable
- Latest draft of the Center's mission-program-values document
- Minutes of our meetings
Timetable: For us, the sooner the better
Specific questions
- Would it be useful to read earlier drafts of the Center's mission-program-values document?
- Do you want printed materials only? Does having links or pdf documents work equally well?
- Would you like to read grant reports?
- Who else would you like to meet with during the site visit?
- Do you wish to collect any of your own data? If so, can we facilitate this in any way?

Finally, the group agreed that Dr. Barron's participation, her schedule permitting, in the meetings and in the work with the consultants is important.

— Minutes respectfully submitted by Michelle Falgoust,
Administrative Assistant in the Center for the Advancement of Teaching