Leadership Team Telephone Conference Call

January 17, 2002

Participants: Karen Dilka, Michelle Hoversten, Harold Johnson, Dee Klein, Maribeth Lartz, Susan Lenihan, Donna Mertens, Liz Parker, Katharine Slemenda, Carme Yarger

Choices/Faculty Participation:

- Regions report that faculty Choice proposals are still slow coming in; people are enthusiastic about the project but are so busy in their lives that they just cannot conceive of taking on another task or project.

- Based on our discussion of the above topic in our previous conference call, Donna Mertens had prepared a draft motivation survey. This draft was discussed and received very positive feedback. The idea of the survey is to have those persons in each region who have not participated, or only participated once and then dropped out, contacted via telephone. The RD or Asst RD would review the questions with the person and record his or her answers. Completed surveys would be returned to Donna in two weeks. From this we hope to learn about why people might not be participating and what, other than the $475, might be a motivator. The consensus was that the survey was well done and will serve us well. Donna will incorporate the suggested changes and distribute to the Leadership Team the final survey.

- The planned SER faculty development forum has had to be cancelled due to lack of participants. An idea for future use is tying these types of forums to larger gatherings, conferences, etc. This would ensure a large number of persons present at time and location of forum. Forum could be a pre- or post-conference session.

- Use opportunity of a faculty person moving from one program to another to encourage contact between programs and the fostering of collaboration.

- Brief discussion of idea of bundling Choices (currently planned for a bundle of six) in order to buy out time of a faculty person in Fall 2002 with possible $1000 for travel to 2003 ACE-DHH conference. There are expectations for faculty persons selected for this buy-out. Positives and concerns were discussed. Harold to work with Michelle on budget to determine who many of these bundles could be offered and at what dollar amount.

ACE-DHH Conference:

- Advisory Board meeting Wednesday, February 20. Estimated start time is 9:00 am. Each region to give an approximate 15 minute presentation with the theme of "accomplishments, frustrations, and hopes". Presentations can be sent to Project Office (PC) or Karen Dilka (MAC) for loading onto laptop; presentations are to be sent no later than the morning of 2/18/02.

- Project Office will work to create a disk version of the Choice proposal form which can be used at the Charleston ACE-DHH conference. Forms could then be filled out using any available laptop/PC and saved to disk thus ensuring we will have an electronic proposal. Disk will contain Choice Matrix also.

- Grant portion of Conference is 9:30 am - 12:00 n Friday, February 22. Tentative agenda consists of approximately 20 minutes for brief summary and introduction of student award winners. This to be followed by five approximate 30 minute periods in which one to three representatives from each region will talk about their stellar project which was done over the past year and a half. There will be a 15 minutes break following the second region's presentations. Remaining time will be for presentations by Lectora/Trivantis and Palm reps and update by Harold and Maher Atwah on grant's website.

Miscellaneous:

- Karen Dilka reported that she and Katharine Slemenda are working on the guidelines and statement of expectations for this year student project competition. Much was learned from this past year's competition (our first) and will be reflected in these documents.

- Discussion regarding faculty and their technological competency levels. An idea is to develop short survey whereby faculty can self-assess their current levels and then can later re-assess their levels. This information is important for our grant. Donna discussed survey instruments she had reviewed and discussed information listing which had been distributed earlier. Donna and Sharon will draft a survey instrument which will then be distributed to Leadership Team for review and feedback.

- Next Leadership Team telephone conference to be Thursday, February 7, 1:30 pm Eastern Standard Time (EST). Details on number to call and passcode will be sent at a later date.