CPACE Meeting Minutes

Date: March 12, 2008                          Time: 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Location: MichiganState University,East LansingMI

Participants listed by group:

• MichiganStateUniversity (MSU): Jon Sticklen, Mark Urban-Lurain, Claudia Vergara, Neeraj Buch Tom Wolff, Daina Briedis
• LansingCommunity College (LCC): Louise Paquette.
• Corporation for a Skilled Workforce (CSW): Cindee Dresen, Kysha Frazier.  Note: The only recording available is the one from the confluence the quality is very bad. Agenda: Review of Draft version of AB kickoff meeting.

We did revisions of this document on the wiki. Cindee took us through the document  https://sites.google.com/a/msu.edu/msu-cpace/home/project-meetings/minutes-march-12-2008/advisory-board-meeting-april-24-2008-agenda---draft  Cindee: What the intend was regarding the primary research was that we were not thinking to get on the specifics of the protocol but that we would provide them (AB) with the process so that they provide us feed back about the process and we want to spend more time in the engagement piece because that would help us engage them in conversation and get their ideas about how they think about their role as AB members and helping to facilitate our research and their backing of that in terms of  once we gather our results and helping us to communicate and disseminate the information. If we get the mix of folks that we are hoping to get they can help us to think about different approaches and advising about how we might engage different associations /societies or employers to help our research efforts.

We need to take the time to set the stage about the intent of the project and explain what we are seeking from them. Tom: We were talking about the intend of the research I think is very important to make clear that we are not talking about specific applications that employers want the students to learn but what is the fundamentals involved.

People in different disciplines have different ways to talk and the question would be what types of people in your discipline should we be talking to the HR people vs the Engs and the second one is there a style in which they like to be talked to.  Who and How? Cyndee: Yes, that would be part of the engagement conversation.

Summary meeting March 12, 2008

• The intend regarding the primary research strategy was to present the process to the AB so that they provide us feed back about it.

• We want to spend more time in the engagement piece: To engage them in conversation and get their ideas about their role as AB members.
• Get their input as to how can they help to facilitate our research and their backing of the research (once we gather our results helping us to communicate and disseminate the information)
• If we get the mix of folks that we are hoping to get they can help us to think about different approaches and give us input about how we might engage different associations /societies or employers to help our research efforts.

• We need to take the time to set the stage about the intent of the project and explain what we are seeking from them.

• In terms of the intend of the research is very important to clarify that we are not talking about the specific applications that employers want the students to learn, but what are the fundamentals involved.

• People in different disciplines have different ways to talk, two important questions are: Who and How?