GATE EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING
March 5, 2003
St. Simon’s
Presiding – Dr. Jennifer Harrison, President
Attendance
The meeting was called to order at 6
Minutes – Accepted with corrections.
Membership Report – none
Nominating Committee –
Julie Dangel distributed nominations committee handouts. Joan Schwartz is a
representative at large and a board member who is not an ATE delegate. She explained that delegates to ATE are members on the board and
at ATE. Towslee mentioned that Boone will not be able to serve as a delegate
because of being chosen as a board member at the national level. Dangel moved
to replace Boone Boonyapat with Jackie Castleman on the nominations committee
slate. It was done. The four delegates are as follows
Since president-elect is a two-year term, that position was removed from the list of nominations and Dara Wakefield was moved from that position to representative-at-large. Dorminey will talk to all of the nominees. There is no need for a ballot. Cosgrove informed the group that in the past Julia Dorminey has confirmed the ballot with membership mailings. Additional nominees could also be gathered from these forms if desired. She remembered having some elections in the past, but not recently.
New officers will assume positions on July 1. A new president-elect will be needed at this [Spring 2004] meeting of next year.
SRATE – Maryellen Cosgrove
A handout was provided to summarize arrangements made thus far for the November meeting. A call for papers has been distributed at the current [March] meeting. Twenty proposals for paper presentations have already been received and the deadline is not until July 1. Reviewers will begin shortly.
Cosgrove made note of the following
Thursday, Armstrong Atlantic students will help with registration as a service project and are eager to help at the management desk as David Watt scholarship recipients. Lunch on Thursday will be on-your-own. A journal workshop will be provided and a writing process workshop will be added. There may be some changes in the local bands that should be finalized by September. There are already door prizes enough to give away ten per day for a total of thirty. Joan is getting door prizes from all over the state to represent the entire state.
On Friday Roy Lassiter, the storyteller will present. FATE is already aware of the reception. A cruise boat will be provided right outside of the hotel. In the event of bad weather, it will still be available, but just stay docked. Rooms are available for use by student groups for two sessions. FTA can have a mini-conference with it’s own speakers. There will also be a presidential brunch on Friday.
The call for papers is done. Presiders will be needed for each session. Board members should come on Wednesday to stuff folders. Each of these folder packets should contain evaluations, receipts, committee assignments, call for nominations, and local stuff.
Edi will do a new GATE brochure. Julia will send out a reminder newsletter for membership.
The next executive board meeting will occur on September 7
in Macon at 10
Cosgrove noted that the ATE meeting was “fantastic” and the there was an outstanding yearbook thanks to Edi Guyton and Julie Dangel. She provided a handout draft of the position statement. Ten positions were enumerated in bulleted format. Such a statement would provide leaders to offer statements and represent the membership rather than just make individual statements. Jennifer Harrison reported that Paul Beare had shared this draft at the current GACTE meeting. Jeanna French suggested getting input from non-academic outsiders as well. Harrison agreed and shared that Paul also felt that any jargon should be removed. Independent colleges will probably be included, too. Jeanna also suggested consideration of the order of the statements. Cosgrove said that the culminating project will be put to an organizational vote.
Jeanna French brought copies of the report from Eugene Baker and will distribute them.
Julie Dangel suggested that mission, purpose, and vision be included in the new brochure for GATE. We may need to parallel these areas with the new position statement. She will look in the archives. She suggested that the new membership flyer also include mission and will get with Julia Dorminey to do that. Cosgrove suggested making mission statement bookmarks and including them in the SRATE packets.
There will be no meeting tomorrow; adjourned at 8
Submitted by John Rhodes, Secretary.