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Guests Present: Beth Wood and Scott Truex
President Doug Reddington called the meeting to order at 10:00 a.m.
Minutes
After a brief review of the April 23, 2003 minutes, Mike McKay made a motion to accept, Greg Jacoby seconded the motion, and the minutes were approved by voice vote.
Update from the College
Dean Bilello reported that Jeff Hall retired and that Dave Ferguson and Brian Sinclair have both left to pursue other professional opportunities. Michele Chiuini has been named Interim Chair of the Department of Architecture. New faculty this year include Amy Brown, Tim Gray and Glen Gareis. Tony Costello has been awarded Ball State's Virginia Ball Center fellowship for the fall semester.
New facility improvements this year will be a CNC router, plasma screens and a multi-purpose room.
CERES and Robert Koester are hosting the nationally recognized "Greening of the Campus" conference on campus in the Student Union September 18-20.
Enduring programs, such as the Chicago program with first-year freshmen, will continue this year as will the annual field trips for second- and third-year students.
Urban Planning's new graduate degree program has been approved. Ball State is working with IUPUI to implement crossover programs.
The guest lecture series is going well. Dean Bilello discussed the budget and its current limits. This year's portion of the budget is to be distributed to CAPIC for lectures in Indianapolis.
CAP will celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2005. There was discussion emphasizing the 40th anniversary celebration, and additional thoughts about ways to improve the annual Alumni Day so that we get greater numbers of participating alumni, faculty and students.
Alumni Day
Jennifer Milliken and Teresa Jeter-Newburn reported on how this year's CAP Alumni Day. The group appointed at the last meeting took ideas from the meeting and the results from the CAP Alumni Day survey to plan this year's activities.
Areas for suggested changes include accepting reservation payments by Internet, listing where the activities are being conducted on the agenda and having more alumni and student interaction.
Dean Bilello suggested looking for reasons why alumni may not be planning to come back for Alumni Day, rather than adding additional activities to the program. Doug Reddington recommended getting alumni to participate in other ways besides Alumni Day. Jennifer Milliken raised the question of the price of Alumni Day for younger alumni as a potential problem.
Update on the Alumni Communication Initiative
Michel Mounayar announced the new Web site will be operating by October. By spring semester, CAP's site will be connected to the Career Services site. The link will allow alumni to see both full- and part-time job postings. Dan Woodfin suggested using eCAP as a way to advertise the connecting link.
New Business/Areas of Discussion
eCAP and ReCap
Dean Bilello asked for comments or reactions to eCAP and ReCAP. Greg Jacoby likes ReCap better as a printed source which he can share with staff members and potential students.
Suggestions for eCAP included the use of graphics, shorter e-mail using headlines with links to information, and a section of class notes. Also suggested was an area of the CAP Web site, where alumni as well as Indiana architects could have projects posted. Having work posted on the Web site could be another source for potential alumni nominations for the outstanding alumni award.
Elections
Greg Jacoby made a motion for the addition of a second vice-president position and making the position third transition into president. Diana Brenner seconded the motion. The motion was approved by voice vote.
Upon a motion by Doug Reddington, Jamie Lake was nominated for first vice-president. Greg Jacoby second the motion. The motion was approved by voice vote.
Upon a motion by Teresa Jeter-Newburn, Jennifer Milliken was nominated for second vice-president, Jamie Lake second the motion. Motion approved by voice vote.
Interior Architecture Study Update
Beth Woods gave an update on the status of the Interior Architecture study. Research has been completed as to which universities have an Interior Architecture program on national, regional and local levels. Woods has interviewed or visited with Ohio University, Ohio State University and the University of Cincinnati.
Ball State's architectural undergraduate program has been compared and contrasted to the curriculum of eachuniversity researched.
A second research grant has been awarded from the Council of Educational Facility Planners International in the amount of $8,500. The grant will involve a hands-on research project to link both educational research and interior architecture.
Woods will visit the University of Oregon in October to observe their graduate level Interior Architecture program. Oregon's program is comprised of three different curricular offerings and appears to be the strongest in the country.
Resource needs and implications for the offering of an Interior Architecture program will be analyzed. Woods plans to gather comments and feedback from firms in the Indianapolis area to better understand both positive and negative feedback toward the development of an Interior Architecture program. An integrated practitioner/educator workshop is being developed.
The Interior Architecture feasibility study should be completed in December. Questions raised during Woods' presentation will be answered at the next meeting.
Update on Indianapolis Center
Scott Truex gave a brief report on the status of the Indianapolis Center's search for a new location. IC is working with firms in the Indianapolis area on proposed locations. Concentrated efforts are being made to see if a partnership with IC and for the City of Indianapolis can continue.
Indianapolis by Design: The Place Matters Conference will be conducted Friday, October 17 at the Kite Companies Conference Center, 30 South Meridian Street. Classes are continuing at the
Center. Political Science classes are being offered evenings to help bring legislative concerns into IC.
Adjournment
The agenda for the next meeting will be sent to Ernie Krug, Kate Webber or Michelle Harrell. The agenda, meeting notice and copy of the September minutes will be e-mailed to each board member prior to the next meeting.
There being no further business, the meeting adjourned at noon.
