CTAM Executive Board Meeting
-Minutes
June 13, 2002 at Normandale
Community College
Present: Mike Wartman (President), Gregg Sawyer (President
Elect), Kris Lindvall (Past President), Larry Schnoor (Treasurer),), Mark Braun
(Journal Editor), Dan Cronn-Mills (Newsletter Editor)
Karen P. Wilson (Secretary)
Meeting was called to order at 12:40 p.m.
Minutes from November 18, 2001 Executive Board Meeting were approved.
Reports:
CTAM budget: currently at $1,251. CTAM membership: 267 (85 are at the college level). CTAM Foundation: $4,772 available during this grant period. CTAM On the Road is complete, all bills are paid and a report will be submitted to the Foundation. Discussion followed about journal costs. Dues and advertising pays for journals. Mark will look into the possibility of handing out journals at the convention instead of mailing them.
Submissions were not as great and deadlines were extended. Eight total articles were submitted: four articles for the general section, two for the workshop section, one book review (two articles were turned down). Journal mailing cost: $85-90. Production cost: $2,580.80. In 1997 the cost was $2,813 for 350 copies of the journal.
Old Business:
Judy Litterest and Mike Wartman wrote a letter to the Board of Teaching. Mike Tillman responded that the current testing includes adequate material pertaining to speech communication. Letters attached to this report. Discussion followed with consensus that some colleges appear to offer inadequate training for speech communication teachers. Next step uncertain. Will report back to the CTAM membership.
Not much response from Dance or English organizations to participate in CTAM. Mailings for the fall convention could be sent to the dance coalition and teachers of English to invite them to participate. Mike will follow up and Gregg will get a list of the colleges that offer Dance/Theatre teaching licensure.
It was agreed to proceed as usual. Well attended overall, good format, in practicality the time of the year is difficult- little to late for theatre and a little too late for speech, poor attendance by theatre people. Discussion followed including possibility of separating these and offering something in the fall for theater people and something later for speech or alternate years with focus on speech one year and theatre the next. It was noted that there are a lot of English teachers who need to teach speech and perhaps this program can provide assistance here.
Convention- Stillwater, 2002. Gregg handed out a convention draft and asked for feedback (now or later). Goal is to have keynote speaker by end of next week. Not a lot of sessions geared for the collegiate level. Official hotel is Holiday Inn Express -rates are $85. Room can be held only until July 17- this will be problematic- encourage people to register early especially since September is the busiest tourist month in Stillwater. Entrance to the conference will be the High School Theater lobby. Concession area off lobby will be ideal for hospitality. There are some holes in the debate offerings and Gregg will follow up on these plus work on getting a few more sessions on performance. When is the true deadline for submissions? What about those people who have not yet contacted Gregg for meetings, etc? Discussion followed. Gregg reported that adequate rooms are available. Riverboats seat anywhere from 150 to 500. About $3000 has been given to the conference by the Stillwater school district. By the 21st of July Gregg should get costs to Larry. Breakfast and meeting will be in the same location. Since the timing is tight with travel time, awards will be given at lunch. Outstanding individual will be given at dinner. Healthy variety of offerings with more theatre offerings than in past few years.
Newsletter:
The August newsletter will include one extra convention summary and encourage people to give this to colleagues encouraging them to attend. Get information for the newsletter to Dan by August 1 for mid-August mailing. Dan will send out a postcard in the next few weeks reminding everyone about the room availability.
Two proposals for guests with stipends were received. Larry moved that we approve this funding from the Foundation- it was seconded and approved.
Gregg raised the issue of clerical support for the President Elect to work on the conference. Perhaps set aside a pool for secretarial support available on request. This will be put on the agenda for the next Board of Governors meeting.
CTAM Outstanding Individual Award Nominees:
Mike distributed summaries of the nominees. Dan left the room for this discussion. Moved and seconded to offer the outstanding individual awards to Kathy Ebnet, Dan Cronn-Mills, Lee Alto.
Tom Kuster for President Elect, Larry Schnoor for Treasurer
Other nominations still being accepted. We need to begin looking for a secondary person for the future President Elect position.
Site for 2003- Duluth. Discussion followed.
Representative Assembly Need: A person/rep
This will be discussed at the convention including compensation for expenses. CTAM is only the umbrella organization not the represented body. CTAM will continue to find these representatives but it is agreed that neither CTAM nor the individual should be expected to pay expenses.
Next Executive Board meeting is September 19 5:00-6:30 p.m. in Stillwater
Next Board of Governors on September 19 6:30-9:00 in Stillwater
Thanks to Mike Wartman and Normandale Community College for hosting this meeting!
Meeting was adjourned at 3:05 p.m.
Respectfully Submitted,
Karen P. Wilson