In attendance: Meta Braymer, Gail Brooks, Phil Hall, Pam Hopkins, George Meadows, Donald Rallis, and Brenda Vogel.

Overview of the self-study research design, contacts overseeing data sources (students, faculty, etc.), prospective students/business world research model, timeline for completing self-study.

Further questions to send to data source contacts were to be identified by September 24th.  (See attachment for what was submitted.)

Most of the meeting was spent reviewing the drafts of the employer focus questions and survey for prospective students provided by Larry Penwell.  Recommendations submitted to Larry are attached.

Phil reported on analogs he had contacted.  Hameline proved to be a useful analog for "connective tissue" (provost, university council for strategic issues, not governance; independence of entities very important).  SUNY Binghamton and Christopher Newport were not useful analogs.  Johns Hopkins had not replied at that time. 

Recommendations were made for a Fredericksburg campus replacement for Mehdi.

Recommendations for consultants to serve on visiting team: Barbara Loftus (Pam Hopkins), Jerry Greiner from Hameline (Phil Hall), Ed Simpson (Phil Hall).

We will search archival data for our November meeting. 

Task for next meeting, Wednesday, October 17, 2001, 4 p.m., JMC conference room:
Find a couple of new analogs.