Slippery Rock University Forum

Minutes

23 April 2009

Attendance:  Padma Anand, Trudy Bayer, Jace Condravy, Katie Cooklin, Justin Kleemook,         Unhae  Langis, Melissa Nard, David Nugent, Kevin Sharkey, Judy Silva, Erin Street,                     Lalanda Stromp, Renee Tkacik, Diane Tomasic, Barbara Westman, Junko Yamamoto

I.                   Call to Order

II.                Approval or Corrections of March 2009 Minutes

III.             Forum Statistics:               Average number attending meetings    = 26

                                                      Average number of students attending =   6

Our sincere thanks to all forum members for your dedication

and hard work during the 2008-2009 academic year!

IV.             Nominations and Elections Committee

                  (Michael Conlon & Patsy Ann Johnson)

Katie Cooklin - President

Unhae Langis – Vice president

Junko Yamamoto – Secretary

Justin Kleemook – Vice Secretary

            From our constitution:

                     ARTICLE III.  OFFICERS OF THE UNIVERSITY FORUM

                                                   Section 1.  Officers.  The Forum shall elect a Chairperson, a Vice-Chairperson, a Secretary, and a Vice-Secretary.

                A.  All officers of the Forum shall serve for one year.

                B.  All officers shall be elected by and from the membership of the 

Forum after May 1^st of each year.

                C.  A slate of officers shall be presented by the Nominations and 

Elections Committee at the May meeting, and additional nominations may be made from the floor with the permission of those nominated from the floor.

V.                Issues and Projects to be carried over

a.       Plus/Minus Grading – Trudy Bayer has decided that it is not feasible at this time to pursue the Plus/Minus Grading System since there appears to be a good amount of resistance.

b.      Outstanding Secondary Teacher Nomination – Unhae Langis is currently working on the brochure for the Outstanding Secondary Teacher Recognition Program.  She will present it to the FYRST seminar training in May. 

c.       Keister Road Crossing – Barbara Westman reported that she met with Provost Williams.  He mentioned that the issue will be discussed in the next Cabinet meeting.

VI.             Next Meeting

Thursday, September 2009, North Hall University Room at 12:30

The Master Schedule will be checked for booking of the University Room.

VII.          Adjournment