University of South Florida

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

Research Committee

Thursday, December 2, 2004

Minutes

Members Present: Lynn Lavely (for Neal Berger), John Ferron (liaison), Jan Ignash, Valerie Janesick, Shannon Suldo (for Linda Raffaele-Mendez), Nancy Williams (Chair)

Members Absent: Neal Berger, Marcus Kilpatrick, Gladis Kersaint,

Tony Onwuegbuizie, Linda Raffaele Mendez

Other Attendees:

Call to Order

On December 2, 2004, Nancy Williams, Chair, called the Research Committee meeting to order at 10:05 am. October 28, 2004 minutes were approved as written.

Guest Speaker

Lynn Lavely was guestspeaker to discuss the mini-grant proposals. Discussion occurred regarding purposes, nuts and bolts, implementation, etc.

It was the consensus of the committee that:

a)  Clarification is needed as to whether or not the mini-grant program is a policy or program.

b)  This as a pilot program with a recommendation for reviewing the entire process in one year from Spring 2005. Thus, in January 2006, the Research Committee will review the process.

c)  Simplification of forms are needed.

d)  The following change(s) were suggested.

·  On p.11, line 10, remove the words “blind by reviewer.”

·  On p.3, on the bullet beginning “A two member committee, etc.” that sentence should remain but the next three (3) sentences should be eliminated. Add to this section, “Reviewers should be knowledgeable in content and/or methods for each proposal.”

·  On p.4 in the section Grant Period, list the grant period as 2005.

e) This document is a work in progress and the process will be fully reviewed in January 2006. This will be the pilot year.

IRB Update

The IRB session scheduled for November 23rd did not take place. In January 2005 a new IRB series of sessions will be announced.

Brainstorming regarding future research forums.

Minutes respectfully submitted by Valerie Janesick.

Adjournment

The meeting was adjourned at 10:55 a.m.

Next Meeting

The next Research meeting will be Thursday, January 27, 2005 at 10:00 am in EDU 219.

Minutes Typed by

Rebecca Wilkins, Program Assistant

College Council, College of Education