General
Membership Meeting
Saturday, March 25, 2006
University of the Pacific,
Stockton, CA
Present: Kemmerer (Albright C.), Sanchez (U. Miami), Wangler
(Appalachia S), Weissman (U. Oregon), Armstrong (Butler U), Lewis
(Valparaiso U), Gaber (Florida State U), Williams (U. Mass. Lowell),
Hearn (McNally Smith C), Michele Murray (Anderson U), Mark Murray
(Anderson U), Kellogg (U of Colorado Denver), Kopplin (Cal Poly
Pomona), Piechocina (Indiana State U), Strasser (Northeastern U),
Friedlander (Cal State Chico), Knisely (Harrisburg Area Community
C/York College), Elliott (Belmont), Akins (MTSU), Garfrerick (U North
Alabama), Haseleu (MTSU), Hatchek (U of Pacific), Rubel (Millikin),
Ronkin (Northeastern U), Butler (U Memphis), Fansler (Dallas Baptist
U), Gorder (Berklee C), Almadoff (Berklee C), Sosnick (Five Towns C),
Hays (Elmhurst), Wehr (Wehr Music), Tough (U North Alabama), Chappell
(Anderson U)
The meeting was called to order at 9:10 AM by Chappell.
Motion to approve minutes Wangler; second Fansler
Unanimous
President’s Report (Chappell)
Activity since the last conference:
o Moved headquarters to Belmont University (Nashville)
o Development and distribution of resource CD
o Registration of organization in Tennessee (formerly in LA)
o Trademarking of meiea name
o Development of task assignments, based on general membership survey
results (see below)
o New advisory board members: Jim Van Hook, Hunter Williams, Todd
Brabeck
o Two 1-year appointments in executive board, one due to a resignation
and one because no one was nominated; Kemmerer was appointed Acting
Secretary and Sanchez was appointed Acting Vice-President
Call for Conference Host 2008, 2009, 2010
2007 Conference Report (Kopplin)
o March 23 – 24, Cal Poly Pomona/Los Angeles area
Treasurer’s Report (Bulla)
o
See Appendix A
Member Survey from fall 2005,
see
Appendix B
Member survey resulted in development of:
o Faculty Research Awards
o Branding Initiatives
o Curriculum Focused Initiatives
o On-Line Voting
Anonymity of survey respondents assured.
Election Procedures and Results (Sanchez)
o Anonymity of voting results assured
o Recipients of follow-up no-vote survey also anonymous
o As a result of two appointments, there is a total of three general
board vacancies; resolution made that runners-up to elections moved to
fill those vacant Board positions
o Results of spring 2006 voting revealed:
2006-2007 meiea board:
1President: R. Chappell
1Acting Vice-President: R. Sanchez
(one year
appt)
Treasurer: W. Bulla
Acting Secretary: K. Kemmerer (one year appt)
Director of Student Relations: D. Kopplin
1Director of Membership: K. Wangler
Director of Journal: B. Ronkin (on-going appt)
Austral-Asian Liaison: T. Papadopoulis
European Liaison: P. Saxe
General Board Members:
J. Kellogg
1T. Butler
1T. Fansler
R. Strasser
E. M. Harrington
1R. Garfrerick (one
year appt)
1D. Tough (one year
appt)
R. Hicks (one year appt)2
1term expires spring 2007
2substitute for K. Kemmerer (one year appt) as Acting
Secretary
Research Stipend Awards (Lewis)
o
See Appendix C
o Question: how to make donations “in memory of” or “in honor of” to
augment research stipends; will be considered by Board and information
made available
New Business
o D. Weissman:
Concern for national/international awareness and
recruitment
Concern that conference panel discussions/speakers
are repetitive and lack diversity; suggestion that we investigate
combining resources with NARAS; suggestion that we vary our geographic
location for conferences to utilize the unique resources in different
areas
o K. Wangler:
Development of a education resource file (ex.
syllabi, curriculum development ideas, etc) that will be linked to
website
o B. Sosnick:
Acknowledge service of M. Lewis for dedication as
Director of Student Services
Motion to adjourn meeting made by Kopplin; second by Knisely.
The meeting was adjourned at 10:10 am by Chappell.