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Minutes

June 2004

Members Present:  Venita Bowie, Lee Wehde, Sachin Shah

Member Absent:  Bonnie Duggie, Krystal Edwards, Emily Lefler, Judy Newsom, Ann Canales

Ex Officio Present:  Joel M. Epps,

Associate Dean Present:  Sherry Luedtke

Committee Chair Sachin Shah opened the meeting with introductions of members present.  It was noted that the committee members not present were away from the office or had not received notice of the meeting.  The chair then introduced the agenda items.

  1. Review SOP CE Committee Bylaws: Postponed until future meeting when more members were present.
  2. Continuing Education Committee Charges 2004-2005: 
    Sachin read the charges and the following action was discussed:
    1. Develop 2 new successful CE programs to be held on an annual basis:

Members present discussed the types of CE programs that the committee could develop.  A sub committee made up of Joel Epps, Leland Wehde and Krystal Edwards formed to develop a survey tool to assess continuing education needs to direct the topic development of the new programs.

Member Action Item:  Joel Epps will email Lee and Krystal a copy of previous survey developed by the committee and subcommittee will develop a new survey tool.

  1. Develop a system to review all CE programs offered by the CE department:  Following discussion of the number of programs produced by the CE Division the committee suggested that the Chair receive clarification of the charge.

Member Action:  Chair will clarify charge with the Dean.

  1. Develop an incentive plan for faculty to work with the CE Committee to develop CE programs (including content, sponsors, etc.) to be developed with assistance of the director:  Committee brainstormed ways of providing faculty incentive to develop programs.  No action was taken to allow full committee review.
  1. Strategic Planning: Discussion and action postponed until future meeting.
  2. ACPE Re-accreditation: Discussion and action postponed until future meeting.
  3. Alumni Survey: Discussion and action postponed until future meeting.
  4. CE Program/TSHP: Discussion and action postponed until future meeting.
  5. Next Meeting:  Committee members discussed the need to set a regular meeting time.  Sherry suggested a monthly meeting.

Member Action Item: Chair will survey members to determine best meeting time.

Chair adjourned meeting