Thursday, May 18,
2006, Crowne Plaza Hotel,
Present: Dan Cronn-Mills (President), Sandy Nieland (President Elect), Larry Schnoor (Treasurer), Sarah Wolter (Newsletter Editor), Karen P. Wilson (Secretary)
Meeting was called to order at 5:30 p.m. Minutes from Thursday, September 15, 2005 were approved. Action: Request for executive committee members to send Karen their cell phone numbers so these can be added to the executive committee list.
Reports:
President: Dan reported that everything is running smoothly. He has not heard anything about the Arts
Consortium. Can Jill provide an
update? Welcome of the new Newsletter
Editor Sarah Wolter! Executive committee
and Board of Governors are fully staffed.
President Elect:
Suggestion was made for Gregg to
send out a
Discussion followed about the
certification workshop. Since people can renew on-line now perhaps this workshop will be
smaller this coming year.
Treasurer: Larry
reported that CTAM has $6575 in the bank right now. Journal will be coming out and cost is
unknown at this point. Good financial
shape at present. Larry will be paying
for the newsletter soon. CTAM Foundation
has $64,372. Available interest is
$2,500. Foundation is doing well. Request was made for Larry to do a short
presentation on the CTAM Foundation at the Business meeting.
Membership: very good.
290 pre-registered last year for the conference. Membership is over 300 this year. Excellent shape.
Journal Editor: Dr.
Nanette Johnson-Curiskis provided this report via email:
25 manuscripts
submitted for 2006
The manuscripts
for the CTAM Journal, Summer, 2006, volume 33 have been reviewed and articles have
been accepted for inclusion in this year’s journal. There were 25 manuscripts submitted. Ten have accepted for publication.
There are 5 manuscripts chosen for the General Interest section and 5 for the
Teacher’s Workshop section. The authors were predominantly college
instructors of all possible ranks—TAs, adjunct, fixed term, assistant
professors, associate professors, and full professors. In addition, there
were submissions by students, an HR person and a financial resources person.
Submission arrived from individuals predominately from
There was a clear division between the top 10 and the bottom 15 manuscripts. The comments reviewers made were constructive, credible, descriptive and very well done. I believe this was a record year for the Journal. I am very pleased.
I anticipate publishing the same number of Journals as this last year and I anticipate mailing in late August/early September.
Two manuscripts have
been submitted for 2006-7
Plus one other author is already thinking about revising this year’s submission for next year
SAC award for the CTAMJ through CSCA.
I sent in a nomination but I never heard anything; I did not even receive a receipt that the representative received our materials. This seemed very odd.
2005-6 Call for manuscripts sent to:
SPECTRA
CRTNET Listserv
CTAM Newsletter
CTAM Listserv
International Listening Association Listserv
MSUM Alumni Listserv
Solicited in person at CTAM and ILA Conferences
Associate Editors,
2005-2006
David Beard UMD
Mark Braun GAC
Christa Brown MSU
Verna Corgan Hamline
Dan Cronn-Mills MNSU
Kristen Cvancara MSU
Mike Dreher
John Katsion Regent U
Kathryn Kelley Metro State U
Tom Kuster
Desiree Rowe
Warren Sandmann MNSU
Larry Schnoor MNSU
Sara Wolter GAC
Added reviewers because of # of submissions
All electronic submission and reviews
To do:
Continue to solicit manuscripts
I would like to be even more proactive by sending a separate flyer (by e-mail??) to the speech departments of all the MN post secondary institutions. I would like to send a call/flyer to secondary and elementary schools as well but don't know what the vehicle for that would be. If anyone has other sources for sending the call, please contact me.
Solicit ideas for changes in the Journal
more teaching activities, book reviews, more from middle school/secondary teachers
Prepare a rubric for teacher’s workshop section—we had more teaching techniques
this year but we did not have a specific, unique rubric for selection. There
was no
problem but I suspect we would get more if we had a rubric for inclusion.
It
works well to continue to use
Newsletter Editor
Sarah reported that she received
an email from Shelly describing job duties, dates, etc. July 15 is the next due date for articles to
be submitted. Sarah will send out
reminders about three weeks prior to this date.
Reminder: advertisements can be used should space permit. Clarification
was made about the membership forms, including other information, etc. Membership fees will stay the same but Larry
will send convention fees as soon as possible.
Historian
Cindy reported (via Dan) that
everything is still tucked safely in the corner of her office. She hopes to have a journal article on the
history of the organization soon.
Old Business:
Update on Arts Consortium. Dan awaits an update.
New Business:
Selection of Outstanding
Individual Awards
Dan shared copies of nomination
letters. Discussion followed. Cheryl Neidt, Jodene Wartman, Gail Sarff, Joe
Dowling were selected. Reminder: at the
last BOG meeting it was decided to award a Distinguished Service Award to Kathy
Steiner.
Conference 2006
Box lunches cost $16.95 at the
Encourage people to submit theater
and debate proposals.
Conference 2007
Dan will seek suggestions for
location via the list serve and will put this on the agenda for the next BOG
meeting. September 14 and 15 are the
2007 conference dates.
Other Business:
Conference grants to
students: It was agreed that up to $2000
will be spent on these grants and each student needs to officially apply to
Larry Schnoor by August 28, 2006.
Conference registration deadline will be Sept. 6, 2006. Larry will submit information to Sarah to be
included in the next newsletter.
Nest meeting is September 14, 2006
at the
Meeting adjourned at 7:25 p.m.
Respectfully Submitted,
Karen P. Wilson, Secretary