Minutes
LAUC-I General Membership Meeting
Monday, 14 February 2000

1. Approval of Jan. 10 minutes.

• Motion to accept draft minutes: Collins. Seconded: Broidy. Motion passed.

• LAUC-I Accounts Policy:
  • Wilson informed membership of new policy passed by the Executive Board.
  • Wilson highlighted need for members requesting reimbursement from LAUC-I funds (especially for meeting refreshments) to turn in receipts to Secretary/Treasurer and sign host form; Secretary/Treasurer will turn in documents to the Business Office.
• Program Committee:
  • Yang announced upcoming LAUC-I-sponsored brown bag on Weds. March 1st from Noon-2 PM in SL 104 for sharing of brief reports on activities at conferences attended by members since July 1999.
  • Discussion ensued on how the form distributed by PDC to those who have received LAUC-I professional development funding already this year should be filled out.
    • Yang and Manaka clarified that the form was envisioned by the PDC as a way to collect data mainly to give a good statistical snapshot of all the professional activities engaged in by LAUC-I members.
    • PDC also hopes to gather data for future discussions with the UL about more funding for professional development activities.
    • We need to collect information beyond that on the professional development support forms on the depth and quality of our collective participation in professional activities.
    • PDC also interested in information about activities for which LAUC-I members did not request/receive funding (e.g., requests for administrative leave time off).
    • PDC asked that members try to fill in the current form to see how it works and noted that feedback will be solicited for improving the process at the end of this academic year.
• LAUC-I involvement in the upcoming AUL interviews:
  • Wilson announced that a LAUC-I time slot has been set aside in the interview schedule for AUL candidates and that the Executive Board is engaged in formulating about 4 questions that will be asked of all candidates.
  • LAUC-I slot will be open for anyone interested to attend and time will be set aside at end for attendees to ask follow up questions.

• Palmer facilitated the discussion, explained its genesis, divided the meeting attendees up into five groups, and distributed information packets to help with the discussion.
• LAUC-I Executive Board asked to report on this discussion to the LAUC Statewide President by 2000-03-03
• Notes and a summary of these group discussions are available online.