Meeting Notes - 16 April, 2013
2-3:30pm
Location: FL2 COMET Classroom
Attending:
- Mary Haley
- Teri Eastburn
- Alison Rockwell
- Lisa Gardner
- Randy Russell
- Eileen Carpenter
- Marc Mueller
- Julie Malmberg
- Kristin Wegner
- Marianne Weingroff
- Tim Barnes
- Stephanie Barr
- Loretta Melhado
- Cindy Schmidt
- Bruce Muller
Agenda:
- Welcome and introductions
- Cindy Schmidt: Overview of the President's Office University Relations endeavors
- Stephanie Barr: Overview of CISL's Outreach Program
- Poster responses from Jan 24 meeting and future meeting ideas
Notes:
After a brief intro from each attendee, Cindy presented an overview of the President's Office's site for University Relations (http://president.ucar.edu/university-relations) and the associated endeavors:
- uForum: a webinar series to share issues and topics of interset with the atmospheric research community
- uMentor: work with existing programs to match students with faculty, researchers, engineers
- uASC: (Access to Seminars and Colloquium) interactive presentations with NCAR scientists made available to member university classes
- uVisit: UCAR scientists visit member universities for 2 weeks to 1 semester. teamed up with CU for a workshop on April 24 on teaching methods.
- "uGoTom": Tom Bogden is visiting all 100+ member and affiliate universities during his tenure. Hi schedule is available here: http://president.ucar.edu/university-relations/bogdan-visits
Stephanie Barr then presented an overview of her work as the CISL Outreach coordinator:
- IDE2As; Inclusion, Diversity, Education, Engagement, Activities
- Building partnerships and research collaboration for target populations and institutions
- conference attendance and use of social media to promote diversity in UCAR's applicant pool
- works to increase NCAR presence and awareness (building the uBrand :-)
- provides professional development and diversity leadership training
After Stephanie's presentation, we had an informal discussion about the information gathered at our Jan. 24 meeting and about setting up future meetings. There was a request to set up a wiki for the group (done!) and to continue meeting on a regular basis to share education endeavors. There was a general consensus that we should have time at the next meeting for some open ended sharing and discussion as well as a more formal presentation. One topic that came up for future discussion is sharing insights on how various divisions use web conferencing tools.
-bruce muller 4/19/13