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California State University, Long Beach

Scholarly and Creative Activities Committee

Meeting of October 23, 2003

MINUTES 

PRESENT: Marilyn Potts (Chair), John Attinasi, Elyse Blankley, Wendy Culotta, Julia Miller, Richard Nguyen, Charles Noble, Ron Vogel, Bill Ziemer, Beth Ambos (ex officio), Jim Till (ex officio). 

ABSENT: Yu-Ming Wang

1.	It was M/S/P the Agenda be approved.

2.	It was M/S/P the Minutes of September 26, 2003 be approved as distributed.

3.	Wendy Culotta was appointed Recording Secretary.

4.	Reports of College Level Meetings: Committee members reported on successful meetings with the individual colleges.  Only the College of the Arts and the College of Business are left and they have meetings scheduled in which the changes will be covered and discussed.  Beth Ambos reported that she had brought the Administrative Timetable up to date.

	In response to the Committee’s interest, Beth explained the three sources of funds
      for the SCAC awards: 1) Summer Stipends/MiniGrants: the money comes from 
      the Chancellor’s Office each year and gets spent out, and, 2) Assigned Time: the
      money comes from the Campus’ General Fund and it will fund 12 positions, or,
      120 3- unit awards.  

5.	Discussion continued on the policy of more than one award per person per year and conflicting statements on the website.  It was M/S/P “to revise the web site to conform to limiting SCAC applications to one application per semester and limiting awards to one award per academic year, and, to notify all potential applicants of this policy.”   

6.	New meeting and deadline dates were discussed and approved: Nov.21, the Committee picks up the applications with scoring sheets, Dec.1, we bring the scores to the Office of Research, email them to Jim and to Beth, or fax them to Jim and to Beth.  Our next meeting is on Thursday, Dec.4, 9-11, followed-up with a meeting on Friday, Dec.5, 9-11, if there is spill over.   

7.	Providing feedback to faculty was discussed.  The Committee members will keep our reviewer worksheets for a year so if asked by the Office of Research, we can provide comments about the proposal.  The Office may use a customized paragraph in the letter received by faculty who had unsuccessful proposals stating the major reasons why a proposal was not funded.

8.	Discussion of how to assess success of pilot inclusion of college-level scores was deferred until next time.

						Respectfully submitted,
			
						Wendy Culotta
						Recording Secretary