ED AOE Meeting
Minutes
1) Meeting called to order at
2) Financial Report given by Smith.
A. Members agreed that meeting
travel can be submitted to the AOE for reimbursement for all AOE meetings.
B. For the 2005-2006 Fiscal
year, a discussion needs to be initiated with campus to increase AOE allocation
from $470 to an amount equal to programming needs.
3) Membership Report: Smith gave list of who current core and associate members, and who
were remaining on the listserve.
4) Work Plan Report: An update was given per activity by the related chairs.
5) Old Business
A.
B. Fall Conference Review (From AM Meeting with CD AOE) - Ideas for sessions included
the following:
i.
Development of Inservices and Presentations
ii.
CED Modules - CD AOE organizing
iii.
Census Use - Data on the Desktop - Jim Weising
will coordinate
iv.
University Based Resources
v.
GIS Use - Diane Smith will coordinate
General suggestions for fall conference included:
i.
Theme rooms -round tables
ii.
Submission of Proposals related to competitive grant reports,
organizational topics/general topics, program areas/themes
iii.
Poster Criteria/Guidelines
iv.
Proposal Criteria - Tailor to all program areas
Joint Programming Ideas Included:
i.
MSU Profiles/MSU Library - Mona and Dave will coordinate
C. Competitive Grant Report - Mark Thomas reported on visiting new staff of staff
new to ED responsibilities and sharing ED resources and producing strategies
for their area in ED.
D.
Advisory Board For AOE - The idea of having an
advisory board made up of
representatives from state partnering agencies was suggested, such as MEDC (Bob
T or Penny), SBTDC (Carol), MEDA (John A or Chair of Ed),
6) New Business
A. MI Works Collaborative For Entrepreneurship - This program was brought to everyones attention.
B. Community Assistance Team (CAT) - Dave discussed the MSU CAT Program.
C. Year Calendar - Quarterly meeting will be arranged for April, July, Oct, and January.
Smith will arrange the April meeting.
D. Co-Chair Rotation Every Two Years - Smith's term will end June 2006. Members
decided to elect a chair-elect at the April meeting.
E. Recorder Election - Term will be 1 year. Mark Thomas agreed to be
recorder with his term ending in June 2005. A new recorder to start in July
2005 will be elected at the April meeting.
F. Campus CoChair Recruitment - Ivan discussed the idea of
having a speaker series that will invite representatives from departments that
could be considered as campus co-chair possibilities. Ivan will coordinate this
event.
G. New Inservice Idea: The members expressed interest in Loveridge's session "The Role of Higher Education in
Economic Development" Portal Training
H. Mentoring - Smith agreed to mentoring Pigg when requested
by her. Mark agreed to finding a match for Michelle in
Mackinac.
I. Member Recognition - Members will be designated as Core or Associate on
the website as this will determine their level of involvement and funding
privileges.
J. Member Best Practice Round Table - This was tabled until the April meeting.
K. Marketing - Brochure for AOE - Members reviewed the brochure draft by Smith and
suggested changes. Smith will change and bring next draft to the April meeting.
MSU Newsletter - Members were asked
for ideas for future topics for the MSU Newsletter.
L. CD and Land Use AOE Communication - In order to keep open communication with
these groups, it was suggested that the EDAOE consider occasional joint
meetings (like todays with CD), ED AOE membership who
are also on these AOE give report at ED AOE meetings and vice versa, and that
joint inservices be considered, etc.
M. Website - additions to the website were noted by Smith and members were asked
for their ideas for additional content.
N. Portal Needs Assessment - Dave and
Diane will take care of this paperwork for the AOE
O. Certificate Programs - Smith noted that campus was interested in
certificate programs and asked that they consider if current or new AOE
programs would be designed for a certificate.
P. Research Projects with Specialists/Campus Staff - This was deferred to the
April meeting.
Q. 2005 Competitiveness Grant - New deadline is March 2005, then Sept tentatively.
The board decided not to submit a March grant application as no program was
identified for funding needs.
R. Matching Grants - Smith reminded staff the MSU matches outside grants.
S. MSU Outreach Community Based Research RFP - deadline for the program is
T. Other Grants/Funds ID for Programs