Conference Call -- November 11th

Participating:

Ron (Peabody)

Kim (Cornish)

Camille (Berklee)

Dean (North Carolina School of the Arts)

      Jan (McNally Smith) checked in for a debriefing immediately afterwards

Topics of Discussion:

Conference Attendance

• Kim will have some conversations with old friends (Tisch, Emily Carr, etc.)
  
• We'll try to firm up numbers
  
• Jan and Ron will polish up a web posting so that folks can start making reservations
  

Conference Planning

• Jan will talk to John Steinmetz (re:  facilitation)
  
• We'll consider "First-Year Initiatives" as a scheme for orderings some panels; those we spoke of appear to be:  

1. in planning
   
2. newly implemented
   
3. ongoing
   
4. poised for abandonment
   

• Planning Processes might be worth addressing 
  

1. Kim can bring lessons from Cornish's 5-day curricular planning retreat
   
2. It can be of value to find a school whose planning can be critiqued (as we did with Cornish some years back); [Jan feels that McNally Smith might be a candidate for this . . .]
   

• CLEA's leveraging abilities -- bring forth documentation on our old FIPSE proposal, and resume this discussion.