In attendance: Meta Braymer, Phil Hall, Donald Rallis, and Brenda Vogel.
 

• Discussed who will attend the October 23rd and October 30th business leaders focus groups to take notes/represent our committee.  Donald Rallis will represent us on the 23rd and Pam Hopkins and Brenda Vogel will represent us on the 30th.
• Reviewed second drafts of the employer/business leaders focus group questions and the survey for prospective students.  Changes and recommendations were made and sent to Larry the next day.
• Reports on analog schools:  Phil was thanked for his excellent written report on Johns Hopkins that he had circulated prior to the meeting.  A discussion of Clayton College and State University and Georgia State College and University suggested that Clayton was looking at us as a model and Georgia State was moving in the opposite direction.  Donald reported on The University of Maryland University College as a possible distance learning analog.  Donald will send us websites to locate distance learning schools.  For our November meeting, it was decided that we should look at the webpages of our recommended possible analogs and decide if they were useful to pursue.  We would decide in November how to pursue them (e.g., a call from Phil or Meta to top administrators).
• Mehdi is, indeed, irreplaceable.  After calls to numerous colleagues on the Fredericksburg campus, all declined our offer to serve in Mehdi's stead due to already being greatly overextended.  The committee has decided to go forward without a replacement.
• Archival data: The committee believes, after comments from Phil and Meta, that what exists is too old/historical to be useful. 
• Tasks for next meeting, Monday, November 19, 2001, 4 p.m., JMC conference room:
• Reports from Donald, Pam, and Brenda on business leader focus group sessions.  Reports (preferably written) on individually researched analog schools.