Minutes of the Steering Committee Meeting
1 February 2010
3:30 PM, 206 Samford Hall
(by Dennis DeVries, Secretary)

In Attendance:  Kathryn Flynn, Mary Ellen Mazey, Claire Crutchley, Jim Wright, David Shannon, Emmett Winn, Larry Crowley,  Russ Muntifering, Bob Locy, Dennis DeVries, Ulrich Albrecht (non-member, Chair 2010 Administrator Evaluation Committee), Michael Baginski (non-member, Chair 2009 Administrator Evaluation Committee)

Absent:  Bill Hames

--The meeting was called to order at 3:33 PM

--The minutes from the 4 January 2010 Steering Committee meetings were approved without change. 

--Kathryn noted that the faculty Senate at Mississippi State University were interested in whether we evaluated our administrators, and if so, they were interested in seeing a copy of our survey instrument.  No one opposed sending the survey instrument to them. 

--Ulrich Albrecht provided an update on the 2010 Administrator Evaluation.  He provided a comprehensive list of administrators to the Steering Committee for comment on who to include in the evaluation.  We discussed the list of questions and the open-ended questions at the end of the survey. 

--Dr. Mazey distributed a draft document relative to the Lecturer/Senior Lecturer positions.  

--There are two offices in Outreach that are considering name changes.  These are to change "Outreach Program Office" to "Office of Professional and Continuing Education"  and "Office of Outreach Information and Program Certification" to "Office of Public Service". 

--Mike Baginski presented an overview of the 2009 Administrator Evaluation.  This will be presented as an information item at the February Senate meeting. 

--We then discussed the draft agenda for the February Senate meeting. 

--The meeting was adjourned at 4:55 PM.