LAGER Committee Meeting Minutes 1/28/16
Present: Kyle(chair), Suzanne, Lavon, Damon, Stephanie, Melanie, Jennie, Dale, Drew(recording)
Regrets: Caleb
Meeting began with a moment of silence, 9:10am
- welcome to everyone
- Ongoing projects from J-Term
- set meeting time for Spring semester
- no consensus among team member schedules
- Drew and Kyle will confer and make a decision
- AAC&U Summer Application
- in progress
- small group will complete by Tuesday of next week
- will give to the group to review at that time
- Faculty meeting Presentation
- visuals & powerpoint documents available through Slack
- concern expressed about having two different platforms for communication and document sharing – Slack & Google drive
- Slack better for communication, Drive better for storage
- some questions about the presentation slides
- should the queries be included?
- faculty will raise these concerns anyway
- good to anticipate, but including these may push some negative energy in the room
- keep the meeting about presenting the idea
- suggestion to only voice some concerns, but not have on slides
- suggestion to keep details to a minimum, given the draft nature of this footprint
- suggestion to eliminate detailed info from the “Sustainability” slide
- Question as to why Assessment is not represented in this document
- Question about how much detail is prudent to present
- should we edit this down and make a more simple presentation?
- suggestion to only focus on the communities aspect
- edit Foundations to just read Foundations – remove details here
- should the credit numbers be detailed on the slides?
- should the queries be included?
- set meeting time for Spring semester
- Focus of the presentation needs to be on selling the idea of Communities of Engagement
- overall agreement – less is more for the presentation
- Kyle and Drew will explore another time to meet prior to the faculty meeting
- Stephanie will put together some language about how the draft model is built on best practices