NCEDC Steering Committee Meeting
March 27, 2007
Participants: Evette Metzger, Elizabeth Bishop, Lori Risk, Mary Mercer, Rob Boy, Diane Lenz, David Helm, Linda Tuchman
Call of the role: Elizabeth Bishop began the meeting at 2:00 p.m. (Eastern)
AUCD Board Update –Elizabeth Bishop
During a conference call last month, the Board used a web conference program called “Go To Meeting.” The Finance Committee has been using this program which has some interesting features. The Board is also looking at share portals to share and work with documents among board members. Microsoft Share Point did a demonstration with the Board and discussed how it might work with the Board, Councils and for cross-council interaction. Nothing has been decided yet. The Communications Committee has already been using it and it has good potential to be used by the Board and Councils. Evette Metzger stated that people are catching on pretty easily. AUCD has a trial version of the software and will be creating more subportals so that more Councils can make use of it. The NCEDC Steering Committee might use “Go To Meeting” for a meeting to try it out. Committee members should check with their university’s IT department to see if the software is already available to them.
Annual Meeting/Training Symposium
Mary Mercer represents this group on the committee that plans the symposium for the Annual Meeting. Mary has not heard anything yet about this year’s meeting. Elizabeth said they are looking for someone to chair that group. This committee will make this a standard agenda item until the annual meeting.
Feedback on Council Discussion Topics
Lori Risk stated that she received no response from NCEDC Members on taking the lead on council discussion topics identified at the last annual meeting. She will type a list of what people are interested in based on what people said at the annual meeting and send it to the group and see who can contact who for targeted recruitment to head up discussion topics.
AUCD Web Site
Elizabeth asked if anyone has yet looked at the Council’s web site on the new AUCD web site. Elizabeth will send a comparison of our site to other council web sites and would like feed back. She saw that the intro page has a lot of variation. She liked the CORE intro page. The list serve information will be addressed. They are working on switching over to a new list serve system. The Resource section has a lot of variability as well. The COCA resource section is impressive and we might want to use it as a model. Evette stated that what you are seeing is the different nature of materials that was already in the different councils’ web sites. If there is stuff we want to add, sent it to Evette. Lori will send Evette handouts from the annual meeting and minutes that are not on the web site. The Steering Committee is to develop a punch list and send to Evette for additions to the web site. All Steering Committee members are asked to send recommendations to Elizabeth and Lori so that a single list can be compiled and sent to Evette and Crystal.
Other Council Updates
National Training Directors Council - David Helm
It is an election year for the NTDC. They will begin the nomination process and look toward fall. They are also looking at ideas for the annual meeting. The training symposium will be discussed at the next meeting.
Multicultural Council
Elizabeth asked if anyone has participated in this council. David has been but missed their last conference call. No update at this time. Elizabeth stated that they are looking at diversity issues among the network and trainees. They will be sending a survey. Please respond.
COCA
Vyonda Martin is the representative on this council and is not on this conference call today.
CORE – Diane Lenz
Since November, this council has elected a chair. Diane will contact the chair and find out when they are meeting and ask to sit in and listen to the meetings.
Elizabeth asked that these representatives commit to at least two conference calls per year and attend Annual Meeting if it does not conflict with NCEDC meeting. She asked for volunteers if someone would like to represent the group on the Multicultural Council and COCA.
CIS – Elizabeth Bishop
This council has a new chair, Lan Thompson from Indiana. They have a conference call this coming Thursday to talk about web conferencing software. Elizabeth will be presenting to them on how her agency is currently using the software and will do a demonstration. They are working to make sure captioning is available for all web conferencing activities.
Next conference call: May 29th at 2:00 Eastern.
Meeting was adjourned at 2:50 p.m.
Submitted by Lori Risk, NCEDC Secretary, May 29, 2007.
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NCEDC Steering Committee Minutes January 7, 2007