Executive Board Meeting Agenda Annual Meeting
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Saturday, October 30, 2005
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Present: Carol Wilson, Nick Michelli, Van Dempsey, John Anderson, Leroy Kemp, Ann Foster, and Greg Bernhardt

1. Welcome to the new Executive Board members: Leroy Kemp from Harris Stowe University, the new Tripartite Chair for the COE, and Van Dempsey, member at-large from the governing council.
   
   
2. Update the google group to reflect the changes in governing council membership. Carol Wilson will add Greg Bernhardt to the managers’ group.
   
   
3. December 2-3, 2005, Potential New Settings meeting:
   • The meeting will be held Friday, December 2, 2005, from 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. and on Saturday, December 3, 2005, from 8:00a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
   • The objectives for the meeting are to provide background on the NNER to settings interested in participation and to provide information on the process to become members Agenda Outline from the Executive Board Members noted in parentheses:
   • Overall purpose for the work-renewal process, engagement (Nick Michelli has agreed to present this)
   • Structure; Tripartite involvement (Carol Wilson)
   • Walk through the governance document section on processes for new membership (Greg Bernhardt)
   • Relationship between the IEI, the NNER, and the CER (Van Dempsey)
   • Bumps in the road; challenges (Carol Wilson)
   • Support for new setting development (Ann Foster)
   • What do the participants need and want from the interaction? (Greg Bernhardt)
     
     
4. The Executive Board meeting December 3-4, 2005, will follow the Potential New Settings meeting
   
   
5. A possible Equity session to be held in Hawaii was discussed — Issues that need to be addressed:
   • Ensuring that those who want to attend have access to the conference;
   • Develop an agenda for a working session to address the equity report and how to continue to improve our efforts to actualize it;
   • Include Arts & Sciences research related to the topic.
     
     
6. Research Update:
   • Draft a specific research plan by a small group to be identified by the executive board;
   • Get letters out to these people.

Members to the Research Committee nominated by the Executive Board, as charged by the Research Committee at its October 29, 2005, meeting include the following people:

• Cindy Onore (will continue as co-chair)
• Van Dempsey (will continue as co-chair)
• Bill McDiarmid
• Jason Stephens
• DeBorah Zackery
• Brian Cobb
• Tom Bellamy

Meeting adjourned.

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