UMA Board

January 17, 2006

404 Hanes

 

Present: Jan Blue, Linda Carl, Libby Evans, Jo Ann Gustafson, Kim Duval, George Gulla

 

Membership: Cheryl briefly stopped by to report that four new members have been recruited and she will send Libby an update on membership.

 

Archives: At the February Board meeting, Fran Allegri and Janis Holder will discuss the content and how UMA archives will be handled.

 

Photograph of Board: Libby will bring a digital camera to the January meeting in Memorial Hall to take a photograph of the UMA board for the website and for other publicity purposes.  If only a portion of the board is present, she will also try to capture participants. If the January photograph does not work out, a photograph of the board will be taken in the February meeting.

 

Publicity Photograph: Kim will contact the University Gazette to see if they will take a photo or do a story on the Memorial Hall tour. In any story or photo, the Gazette should be encouraged to include information on how to join UMA.

to replace her in organizing the conversation lunches. 

Conversation lunches:  Libby will ask for a volunteer If an e-mail request to the membership does not yield a volunteer, she will go through the list and try to recruit a member for this task.

Kim will contact Jean Smythe to see if she will do the February conversation on the implications of downloading copyrighted material, potential consequences for those who download illegally, and appropriate use of state property for downloading personal items.

 

UMA website content:  Jo Anne is working on setting up the website so a person without sophisticated web skills can manage the site.  The content of the site also needs to be clear .  The suggested goals for the site were to recruit new members and maintain current members. Two critical items were a list of programs and a list of members. The program listing might be to a link in the faculty staff section of the events calendar.  In order to test the usefulness of this idea, Libby will send the board an example of how this might look.  Board members will be asked for feedback.

 

Future Programs:

Flyers: Kim will prepare a flyer with the same format for each program. Kim will work with Linda’s assistant  to prepare a paper mailing to the membership with all programs

Networking: Networking will occur at the end of the program at Memorial Hall and at the beginning of the next two programs. When the host program will permit, Kim will work with Carolina Dining services to make arrangements for cookies and lemonade for 25-30 people.   

Topics/speakers: Since Fred Brooks  has not been responsive to requests to be the focus of a program, other program topics will be pursued. Kim is waiting to hear if Dean Smith will discuss the lessons from his book, “The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching” ” ). If Dean Smith will do a program – at any time – the Bulls Head will be asked to supply books for purchase. A book will also be given away as a door prize.   Kim will talk to Shannon Robert and Rob Kramer about developing a program: “How to manage an intergenerational workforce: problems, solution, and experiences”.  Kim will investigate the use of a video to generate a managerial discussion. In particular she will try to  find out if Human Resources has and uses a Monty Python star   on management. If so, she will try to find out which tape generates the most conversation and will try to use that tape as the focus of a meeting.  A meeting with the University ombudsman will also be explored, perhaps just after annual reviews.  This session might focus on problems frequently encountered, if problems have any relationship to the calendar, and the process for solving problems.

Future meetings: Programs are problematic for June-July-August. As per previous board discussion Kim will start working on program topics for the next calendar year.  The possibility of focusing a program around a video conference will be explored.