Subject: minutes 18iv03 Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 16:17:37 -0400 From: Tom Vawter To: plan@wells.edu Colleagues, Attached and pasted herewith are the minutes--or what will pass for the minutes--Scott asked me to record at our last meeting. Warm regards, Tom PLANNING COMMITTEE (CIAC REVIEW) Minutes of the Meeting 18 April 2003 Present: Green, Heinekamp, Hall, Morfei, Ney (by conference call), Vawter. Not Present: Reyerson, Zabriskie. The committee discussed a schedule for future meetings that would allow Lillian to attend in person, rather than by conference call. We decided not to meet at our usual time on Thurs 24 April, but to meet for an extended period on the morning of Friday 25 April. That meeting will run from 8:30 to 11:00 AM in the presidents conference room. The committee agreed to ask President Reyerson if her assistant, Ms Van Duyne, could serve as secretary for future meetings of the committee. Scott reviewed the process CIAC followed and read the mission statement for that group. He also presented the focal interests of a number of resource persons to CIAC: Sandy Shilepsky explored the co-ed option; Milene Morfei and Victoria Muņoz reviewed and interpreted the report of Eric Mower to give an internal perspective on the institutional focus groups. Other areas explored included building stronger connections to Cornell, taking advantage of our rural location, and developing a stronger teacher education program, potentially with an MAT program. Scott provided us with a raft of notebooks containing materials from reports that were available to CIAC. Ellen reviewed the timeline of our accreditation process with the Middle States Association and the critical stage in this process where Wells sits at the moment. We reviewed the institutional goals from the Catalogue. She provided us with materials pertaining to this process. (All these reports and other documents will be kept in the presidents conference room and can be accessed by committee members.) We discussed prospects for various sectors of the college working together to seek and execute workable solutions to the colleges problems. Current divisions among sectors of the collegetrustees, administration and facultymay make cooperative solutions difficult to attain. We discussed choosing a name and a clear mission for this committee, with no decisive outcome. We voted to maintain openness in our deliberations rather than secrecy unless members of the committee vote to keep certain sensitive material secret. Respectfully submitted Tom Vawter Secretary pro tempore --------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: PlanningComm Minutes 18 Apr.doc PlanningComm Minutes 18 Apr.doc Type: Winword File (application/msword) Encoding: base64