Minutes of March 2009 phone conference
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NCERA 209 – Minutes from March Conference Call
Attendants: Faith Peppers, Beth Forbes (who will be replacing Chris Sigurdson on this committee), Virginia Morgan, Martha Filipic, Linda Benedict
- Objective, Task and Function teams’ progress
Objectives Teams:
1) To create a culture of strategic issues management within our institutions. Leader: Marcus Ashlock Team members: Traci Naile, Tanner Robertson, Chris Sigurdson
2) To link current research into the development of best communication practices for land grant institutions. Leader: Pat Melgares Team members: Elaine Edwards, Jason Ellis, Mark Tucker, Martha Filipic
3) To enhance institutional communication capacity at land grant institutions Leader: Linda Benedict Team members: Frankie Gould, Faith Peppers, Dwayne Cartmell, Kris Boone
Temporary Task Teams: The Writing Team (Ruth Borger (L), Elaine Edwards, Dwayne Cartmell, Virginia Morgan) will refine the document, adding information about the gaps in Issues Management research (it's primarily case study research; we can conduct hypothesis-driven research, including survey and/or experimental design, to expand current knowledge). The Writing Team has 60 days to update information on the NIMSS web site. Deadline – April 1.
Outcomes team (Frankie Gould (L), Dwayne Cartmell, Jason Ellis, Chris Sigurdson, Linda Benedict, Pat Melgares, Kris Boone, Traci Naile, Tanner Robertson) – Task completed and submitted to the writing team for inclusion in the document.
Permanent Function Teams:
Current State of Knowledge team (Dwayne Cartmell (L), Mark Tucker, Jason Ellis and Marcus Ashlock (L))
Outreach/Community of Practice (Martha Filipic (L), Virginia Morgan) – they will go through what is set up there, how we can best use it and what we need to get to where we need to be.
Toolkit Team (Pat Melgares (L) and Elaine Edwards)
Training Team (Faith Peppers (L), Frankie Gould (L), Linda Benedict, Chris Sigurdson) – Have a double session (90 min.) scheduled for the Association for Communication Excellence meeting in Des Moines, June 7-10, to deliver training on basics of issue management and dealing with the issue of communication to various publics about budget restrictions (Faith Peppers, Linda Benedict, Frankie Gould, Chris Sigurdson and Suzanne Steel (Ohio State)); Spokesperson in Crisis Training scheduled for March 14-17 was canceled. Planning committee is working to have curriculum developed into an online training. Details will be available by the April conference call.
- Needs, concerns -
Writing team needs to meet right away and get the document squared away and posted to the NIMSS site by April 1.
- Feb. 2010 meeting – Fri.-Sat. Feb. 5-6 or Mon. – Tues. Feb. 8-9? Early response indicates Fri. and Sat. work best… objections? Mark you calendars now that the Feb. meeting will be in Orlando, Feb. 5-6.
Date for next conference call: If we stick to this schedule, the next call would be April 3 at 10 a.m. EST. If that time does not work for you, please say so now as we need a critical mass of participants to get a clear update of where we are. On the next call we will need to revisit the objective and determine the next set of tasks that need to be completed. We will a final report from the writing team and an update from each of the other teams with an overview from the Outreach of what tools are available to us through our space on eXtension.
Addition to the minutes: I failed to mention on the call that I am in discussion with Robin Adams at North Carolina A&T to join the committee as a representative from the 1890 institutions. She is interested and will be back in touch if she can get approval to join us.
