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PRESENT: Bill Barnes, Dave Caudill, Alan Gabrielli, Steve Hamrick, Ruston Hunt, Joyce Mills, Mike Murphy, Nikki Palamiotis, Dawn Ramsey, Zvi Szafran, Andy Wang

Item 1. Logistical Issues

Dr. Szafran asked the members of the Academic Planning Taskforce to submit five questions each to him about SPSU’s future and what the Taskforce should be considering as major goals. Dr. Szafran categorized these questions and distributed a handout for discussion to the Steering Committee. This handout is available at the following link:

http://www.spsu.edu/aa/questions.html

Szafran also went over the purpose of the Steering Committee. Some of those points were:

to coordinate the larger committee
to set requirements, goals, and criteria and then to let the larger group find solutions to meet the goals established by the Steering Committee
to decide how things get done and the best methodology to use to accomplish this
to define, review work of committee, redefine and make final decisions after reviewing the Taskforce’s recommendations

The consensus of the group was to set parameters and narrow the list of questions/issues generated by the Taskforce. The group also agreed that the questions chosen should relate to the strategic plan.

The Committee discussed the different areas and questions and came up with the first question to be addressed. The question chosen will be something of the nature of “What are the attributes of the University that will characterize us in the future?” Dr. Szafran will send the question out to the Taskforce for discussion at the next meeting of the Academic Planning Taskforce.

Meeting adjourned at 4:10