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Attendance[edit]
- Members
- Sage Ross
- Annie Lin
- Frank Schulenburg
- Potential Members
- Alex Stinson
- Fletcher Commons
- PJ Tabit
- Cheryl Moy
Potential responsibilities of Steering Committee[edit]
- Recruiting & selecting Ambassadors + professors
- [Ideas] potential criteria to be used for selection: innovation, leadership
- [Ideas] students will only spend limited time at university (because will graduate)
- Especially undergraduate students
- [Ideas] Cheryl’s experience: not all Ambassador-professor matches will work
- Sometimes easier if the professor & Ambassador already know each other
- How to grow Ambassador program
- How to expand to other disciplines
- How to expand to other countries
- Speed & scope of expansion in relation to how much resources we have
- Acquiring & allocating funding
- Developing incentive system for Ambassadors: how to keep Ambassadors involved
- (Getting people to start getting involved [apply] is simpler)
- [Ideas] Create opportunities for “promotion”
- E.g. from Ambassador to Regional Ambassador
- [Ideas] Provide small scholarships
Structure of Steering Committee meetings[edit]
- Weekly for a while, then switch to once every other week
- Next meeting: Thursday Sept. 30 at 9:45pm EDT
- Via Skype audio chat (same as Sept. 23 meeting)
Delegated roles for Sept. 23 meeting[edit]
- Annie & Sage: co-secretaries
- Take notes during meeting, organize notes, & upload notes onto public wiki
- Alex: investigate better tool for conducting Steering Committee meetings
- Sage: draft & send out email to Google Group proposing the Steering Committee
Possible discussion points for Sept. 30 meeting[edit]
- Mission of Steering Committee
- E.g. what is our responsibility and what is not
- Ambassador Principles
- Decision-making process on Steering Committee
- Positions on Steering Committee
- How to communicate with larger Ambassador group on the long run
