Present: Professors Bennett, Penniman, Sievers, Staples, Talbot and 
Uddin; Student Representatives Pellegrino and Smith; Dean Hall; 
Registrar Leybold-Taylor (Secretary Pro Tem).

Call to Order: The meeting was called to order by senior faculty 
member Bruce Bennett at 1:35 p.m.

Agenda: 

I. Discussion of regular meeting time

II. Election of chair

III. Election of strategic planning committee representatives (one 
faculty member and one student)

IV. Election of BOT's academic affairs committee representative

V. Election of budget committee representative

VI. Appointment of APPC webmaster

VII. Preliminary discussion of agenda items for the year

Proceedings:

I. For the majority of members, Monday at 12:30 is the best 
regular meeting time. We thank Nicole Pellegrino for agreeing to 
shift one of her other meetings to accommodate APPC. 

Please note that we will not meet on September 13th; 
therefore, our next meeting is September 20th, and pizza will be 
provided for us at this meeting, compliments of the Dean of the 
College. 

Please note also that, hereafter, we'll have pizza on the first 
Monday of the month. 

II. Amy Staples was unanimously elected chair of APPC. The committee 
is indebted to Prof. Staples for accepting this role. As chair, Prof. 
Staples is also a member of the strategic planning committee. 

III. Susan Talbot was elected APPC faculty representative to the 
strategic planning committee. Nicole Pellegrino was elected APPC 
student representative to the strategic planning committee.

IV. Bruce Bennett was elected APPC representative to the academic 
affairs committee of the BOT.

V. Victor Penniman was elected budget representative for APPC.

VI. Sally Sievers volunteered to serve as APPC webmaster, which 
involves putting our meeting minutes up on "aurora," the college's 
internal website.

VII. Our meeting of September 20th will be devoted to filling in the 
APPC agenda for the semester. We already know that we'll be 
discussing curriculum on September 27th and October 4th (and October 
18th, if needed). 

Other agenda items include: WLLS 101-102; J term; position requests; 
assessment.

Finally, at the September 20th meeting, we also need to approve 
minutes from last spring's May 3rd and May 10th meetings.

Adjournment: Prof. Staples adjourned the meeting at 1:30 p.m.

Respectfully Submitted: Karla Leybold-Taylor, Secretary Pro Tem

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