CMS Internal Advisory Committee Meeting
November 21, 2007
Agenda
Items for Discussion:
 Responses to the CMS Strategic Plan – (Richard Laws, CRISP)
 Pilot Projects – (Dan Baden)
 STAR Employee Recognition Award - (Dan Baden)
 Request for nominations for Mentor of the Year Award – (Dan Baden)
 Other items (group)
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CMS Internal Advisory Committee Meeting
November 21, 2007
Meeting Minutes
Members present:
Dr. Dan Baden (CMS/Director)
Dr. Jack Hall (EVS/Chair)
Dr. Richard Laws (GLY/Chair)
Dr. Curt Moyer (PHY/Chair)
Dr. Joe Pawlik (CMS/Resident, 2006-2008)
Dr. Martin Posey (BIO/Chair)
Dr. James Reeves (CHM/Chair)
Dr. Ronald Sizemore (CMS/Associate Director)
Members absent:
Dr. Chris Dumas (Non-Resident, 2006-2008)
Dr. Steve Kinsey (BIO/Non-Resident, 2007-2009)
Dr. Lynn Leonard (CMS/Resident, 2007-2009)
Dr. Joan Willey (CMS/Associate Director)
Welcome
Dr. Baden welcomed everyone to the Internal Advisory Committee.
Responses to the CMS Strategic Plan
Dr. Richard Laws has received official responses to the CMS strategic plan from the Biology
and Chemistry departments. He has also received responses from several faculty members.
The CRISP committee will meet on November 26th to consider these responses. CRISP will
then prepare a written response and make needed changes to the strategic plan.
There was a discussion of several responses to the strategic plan and two items were discussed
in depth:
1) The Planning Process on page 6 of the strategic plan does not show that the IAC will
review and vote on the plan before it is presented to the entire UNCW marine
science community. This step could be added between steps three and four.
2) Goal A.1: Formalize the Marine Science Program on page 9 is vague and needs to be
revised and written in more detail.
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Pilot Projects
Dr. Baden distributed the Marine Science Research and Equipment Pilot Project memo. He
noted several items;
 collaborative efforts are encouraged but single investigator projects are equally
appropriate,
 investigators who have not complied with requirements from previous year’s projects will
not be considered for future funding,
 faculty may be named on only one application,
 faculty with substantial or numerous funded research projects are dissuaded from
applying
The applications are included in the memo. Proposals should be sent electronically in a PDF
document by January, 25, 2008. The pilot project memo will be sent electronically to marine
science faculty members next week.
STAR Employee Recognition Award
Dr. Baden announced a new CMS employee incentive program called the STAR Award. It
is similar the Kudos program that HR has, but this recognition is for CMS employees who
have shown dedication to excellence or given exceptional service. We will have a
nomination lock box near the mail boxes at CMS. Anyone can participate by filling out the
nomination form and dropping it in the box. We will randomly choose one employee each
month and they will be recognized at our CMS monthly gatherings. A small gift and plaque
will be given to each winner.
An email announcing this program will be sent to everyone in the near future.
Request for Mentor of the Year Award nominations
It is time again to receive nominations for the Mentor of the Year award. The nominations
are due in March and the winner will be announced in April. Dr. Baden will give more
detail about this process at the IAC meeting on December 17th.
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Other Items
Dr. Sizemore reminded everyone that there is a faculty exchange program with the University
of Southampton. Please make faculty members in your area aware of this exchange program.
The next meeting is scheduled for Monday, December 17, 2007 from 10:30am – 12:00noon.
The January 16th meeting has a new time of 3:00 – 4:30pm.
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