STEPMT Meeting Notes, Monday, October 11, 2004
I.
Budget Update
a. Indirect Monies. Ginger spoke with Jeannie Paul after the meeting and we
are under the old rules. Thus 20% will go to the College, Department
(split 4 ways) and Project Team (split 4 ways)
b. Meeting with Margie Fanning (Ginger will keep working to set up this
meeting)
c. Contract for Kathy. Andri will resend the example contract document.
Ginger will ask Kathy is $1000 for each visit plus expenses will be
acceptable payment. Ginger will work on the contract with Margie
Fanning. Ginger will send a draft to the team by Wed. October 13. We
will have the contract for Kathy to sign when she visits.
II.
Administrative Assistant Position
a. Feedback on draft of Job Functions Questionnaire. Ginger will compile
the feedback and send the revision out to the PI team.
III.
Teaching/Learning Seminar
a. CUR Panel is now in place (and willing to serve as back-up for Oct
seminar)
b. Amy and Michael glad to present in the Spring
c. Nov 17th T/L seminar ideas (Summer UR Opportunities)
Ginger will contact Becky Seipelt (bio) and also Chuck Higgins as
faculty to present at this talk. Chuck about UR summer opps at
places like NASA and Becky about Internships. Ginger (or Andri?)
will open the session with general info. Ginger will also contact
students (Mark Durett, Alice Quan, Brett Harris, Juliann Donahou
(aerospace) and Trevor ______ (LSAMP) to present) Students will
speak from 3-5 minutes each.
d. Student session for Summer UR Opportunities (Nov 17 at 5pm, DSB 106)
Andri will make a flyer for the this event. Ginger will spread the word in
the math dept. Bill will focus on Physics. We will have the chairs spread
the word in other depts. We want to advertise to all depts. We will use
indirect funds from the grant for Pizza.
e. Update on Laboratory Internship presentation ideas
Ginger will talk to Judy B. about presenting at this seminar (probably after
Kathy’s visit)
Tom will talk to George Murphy about the possibility of Judy B.
developing a joint Lab internship with Bio & chem.
IV.
Dr. Kathy Whately, External Evaluator Visit (pronounced like “what”)
a. Schedule given out at meeting (Tom, Bill and Andri will send any changes
to the schedule by Wed at noon.) Brad will attend the sessions and help
Ginger with Pizzas at the T/L Seminar. Ginger will ask with Diane W. to
order the pizzas.
b. Before Kathy’s visit
 Ginger will check with Kathy to see what we need to do.
 Ginger will send Kathy the 13 point STEPMT letter that Tom
sent to faculty (check to get most up to date version from Brad)
 Ginger will talk to Kathy about the contract. Note: Kathy
should not have to pay for meals while she is here. If you pay
for her meal, save your receipt.
c. Other ?
Note: we will need to complete an IRB for this project.
Discussed some of the data collection issue
 Andri, can you send a copy of your NMR assessment attitude
survey to Ginger?
 We need to collect baseline data (perhaps attitude for DBL
classes, student graduate/retention data, …)
 Ginger needs to make a list of the data that needs collecting in
terms of graduation/retention, .. a focus report can be set up for
this.
V.
STEPMT Website: Tom is going to work on getting a student to design a
logo. Tom and Andri had some good ideas for the logo.
VI.
Tom’s To Do List
Tom is working to schedule a college wide STEPMT celebration. It will be
3:30-4:30 probably on a Monday afternoon in early Nov.
We need to work on Internships for the summer. We need 2 or 3 more.
We need to work on specifying proposal process for Summer Research
Teams.
VII.
Other Business: some other items discussed
a. Research Seminar
 Maybe have a “punch card” system and students are required to
attend x out of y number of seminars.
b. Summer Research Teams
 Develop Application criteria
 Meet with Joe Nunly
 Need a flyer to advertise (Ginger, student worker)
c. Internships (summer)
 Team needs to get a list of funded internships. We need to send
an email to chairs.