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I'm working my way through all of the notes and ideas, thinking about next steps, and picking off some of the easy ones.  

I sent the diversity team recommendations for the rubric to everyone and will follow up with David Steer and Ellen.

I had a nice exchange with Solomon B., worked on getting him some people for his career fair, and sent info on including HBCUs in the teacher prep piece to Anne.  I also sent a note responding to his message to everyone, since that seemed important and appropriate.

I sent a short note to John about the importance of integrating geoscience into STEM for diversity.  Laura, I think you could expand on this to the whole group in a summary of your groups discussions.  Mostly my note to John was about people for the workshop planning team: Jim, Solomon and Bob.

I sent a note to Mark Maier thanking him for all the help with getting the announcements out to the 2YCs and indicating that the way to move his module ideas forward was to attend the July workshop.

I've twice prompted Tim B re how to involve NCA&T and Fort Valley on his teams.

I've asked Carol to do profiles of the existing programs at HBCUs for the Building Strong Geoscience Departments site building on Solomon's suggestion.

Ellen and I interacted with Elaine to get a diversity person identified for the assessment team;  she also has a 2YC person identified.

Sent note to materials development people about interests in module development

Sent info on program to Jim's chemists and their names to John Taber

sent Chris's site to the leadership team

I've compiled the info on who wants to do what re module development here http://serc.carleton.edu/integrate/workspace/volunteers.html to help me keep track of things.  I'm going to get a place on the website for people to express interest if they aren't sure what to do next. 

Elizabeth sent a great follow up note to her folks.  Laura, can you do this too.  Her note is below.

I'm thinking the next steps are 

1) to have a call about program implementations and other big next steps  - can we schedule this for Thursday or Friday of this coming week?  I'll ask Linda to see what is possible for the three of us

2) to get summaries to the leadership team.  I think we could send them three things -- the notes I put together, and a reflective piece from each of you regarding the priorities of your groups and their advice.   I think it is important that each of you gets to tell them what you heard from your specific groups and what you make of it in your own voice.  I think this should be relatively high level so that it gives guidance to the project --- we can get the details of who wants to do what out to individuals leading those efforts.   My piece can be cast as a summary of the whole meeting that was discussed and endorsed  by the whole group. 

3)to write up what the advisory boards are going to be and do -- I think that they should be parallel.  The model where they give informal advice by email through the year and meet annually virtually  after the evaluation is summarized for the year and before the advisory board meeting to review the years activities and provide recommendations would work well. Each needs a charge.  I need to make sure I know what/when will be coming in annually from evaluation.  It would be worthwhile to think about the composition of these boards - we should fill any gaps in membership that were identified at the planning meetings.  Can you guys take the next step in writing this all up?

4) figure out a plan for graduate student involvement and discuss with Jill and Peter -- this is on my plate

In addition to the implementation programs suggested at the workshop, we have the ideas in Solomon's note, and the suggestion from Anne regarding some sort of summer course that is cotaught by faculty from multiple institutions for credit at multiple institutions.  Her ideas were informed by this program 

She thought we might do one on petroleum resources in the SE and that we might be able to get an industry sponsor.

Enough for a Saturday morning!  I thnk I'm caught up with this for the moment.  Hope to talk with you on Thursday/Friday and hear from you sooner :).

Cathy