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President Jamie Lake called the meeting to order at 11:00 a.m.
Minutes
After a brief review of the February 24, 2004 minutes, Diana Brenner made a motion to accept the minutes, Ron Taylor seconded the motion, and the minutes were approved by voice vote.
Update from the College
Joe Bilello announced that following the meeting there will be a luncheon, a ribbon cutting for the gallery exhibition and Charles Sappenfield will be the guest speaker. He also reported that President Gora visited the Landscape Architecture department on March 22. Bilello announced Provost Pitts will be leaving Ball State University to become President of University of Indianapolis.
Six to eight signature positions are being proposed to the Provost as well as technical improvements for academic year 2005-06. The department is also looking to add a program fee to next year's tuition.
The students and faculty members involved in the 10-week field study program in
Bilello and Michel Mounayar have spoken to the student groups about the mentor program.
Upcoming events include:
March 14-19 Health by Design Symposium
March 28 Women and Design Forum
(Diana Brenner among the lectures)
April 13 CAP Awards Ceremony
May 4 Costello and Rosenman Retirement Roast
May 5 Muncie Arts Walk
May 7 Graduation
May 18 AIA Convention and Alumni Reception
September 30 Alumni Day
The pre-certification seminar will be held in the summer. Students will leave in May for projects in South America,
Logo Contest
Greg Jacoby made a motion to select Brendon Waller's logo as the winner of the logo contest, Dean Illingworth seconded the motion and the logo was approved by a voice vote. The winner will be given a $100 prize.
Dean Illingworth made a motion to use the student logo on t-shirts and Frisbees and the lapel pin logo on coffee mugs, Tina Jones seconded the motion and the motion was approved by voice vote.
Mentorship Program
Tina Jones outlined the concept of the mentor program. The program will be launched on September 30 at the Alumni Day breakfast. This program will be for second year and up students. The number of mentors will match the number of interested students.
Jon Coddington suggested announcing the program to students by e-mail and also in eCAP and ReCAP. Jones will draft an announcement for the board to review.
A steering committee will be formed to oversee the matching of mentors and students. New suggestions for the program included matching mentors and students of the same sex, asking students if they prefer to be matched with mentors by geographic interest, firm type, etc.
Jeff Hall said that when they tried doing a mentor program in the past, it was not successful and a couple of the reasons may be due to more alumni interested in participating than students and they did not have e-mail communications.
Illingworth made a motion to make the mentor program a focus of the CAP Alumni Board of Directors under the direction of the vice-president (which will be Dean Illingworth for 2006). The motion was seconded by Jacoby and was approved by voice vote. Dean Illingworth will head the program with Jamie Lake (architecture), Tina Jones (landscape architecture) and Theresa Jeter-Newburn (planning) serving as the three committee members representing the three disciplines.
Mounayarsuggested having students sign up for the program during the declaration meetings in April and July. Lake suggested having students sign up sheets available during student leadership meeting. Lake volunteered to let the students contact him if they have any questions.
Award Nominations
Lake reminded the board that nominations are to be given to Pat Quinn.
Next Meeting
The next meeting will be May 4 at 3 p.m. in the Alumni Center. All members are invited to stay for Tony and Marv's Retirement Roast at 5:00 p.m. following the meeting. The following meetings will be June 22, July 27, and August 24 at the CAP Indy Center at noon.
Adjourned
The meeting adjourned at 12:00 p.m.
