June 25, 2008
SLN Advisory Council Minutes

Attendees:

Greg Ketcham (Oswego), Terry Keys (Monroe), Denise Burbey (Jamestown), Carol Berger (Utica Rome), Clark Shah-Nelson (Delphi), Linda Smith (New Paltz),
Craig Lending (FACT), Mike Notarious (ITEC), Carey Hatch (SLN), Mike Walker (SLN), Doug Cohen, (SLN), Matt Casalinuova (SLN), Alexandra Pickett (SLN), Gerard Marino (SLN)

Absent:
Marti Dixon (Erie), Joy Ewing (Albany), Jim Neil (Downstate)

Motion to approve May 27, 2008 minutes.  Terry Keys moved, Denise seconded. 

Working Committees
There was discussion regarding the need for both breadth and depth in the committee memberships.  Terms are for one year so things should participation should broaden naturally. 

The committees were finalized as follows:

Help Desk
Peggy VanKirk - Monroe
Kathi Dutton - Oswego 
Dean Dyer - Jefferson
Caroline Manssino-Cohen  - Albany
Marg Kaczor - Erie

Alternate:  Jim Stoner - Empire

Applications
Michael Heise - Onondaga
Stephen Simon - Empire
Brendan Post – Brockport (did not self nominate and has not been approached)
Janet Mayer - Fredonia
Martha Kendell - Monroe

Alternate: Kyle Brown (did not self nominate and has not been approached)

Communications/Marketing
Hope Windle
Steve MacIntosh (did not self nominate and has not been approached)
Melaine Kenyon
Jackie Howard
Jim Lynch – MVCC (did not self nominate and has not been approached)

Alternate: 1st Wendy Walker
Sue Gallagher (did not self nominate and has not been approached)

Education
Vicky Sloan - Clinton
Pam Youngs Maher - Onondaga
Lisa Dubuc - Niagara
Reena Lederman Gerard – Utica Rome
Jim Greenberg  - Oneonta (did not self nominate and has not been approached)

Alternate: Alex suggested that we bring in someone from Empire State College.  They would bring in a needed perspective. 

Contacting Committee appointees:
Need to contact all of those four that did not self nominate.  Terry will call Jim Greenberg, Jim Lynch while Greg will call Brendon Post, and Steve MacIntosh.  They will contact them by end of week. 

They will also contact others who were selected by the end of the week.  Terry will do contact members for EDU and Marketing, Greg will contact Apps and Help Desk. 
The SLN will send out a formal announcement once all individuals have been contacted and have accepted the appointment.

SLN Managers will contact members to convene a meeting once the committees have been finalized.

Greg asked that the SLN managers ensure that notes of meetings were taken and shared with the Advisory Council.

Committee Tasks
There was a review of the task list for the committees.  These are items the SLN managers have identified as the items they would like to engage the committees in.  The committee participants are expected to act as a sounding board to SLN staff providing direction and feedback to the organization.  Committee members are not expected to be directly involved in operational activities. 

Advisory Council members will review the document in Confluence and add comments as they feel appropriate.

Strategic Goals:
There was a discussion of the strategic goals that SLN staff had placed in the Confluence site.   Carey asked that the Advisory Group start to think about the strategic directions the SLN should take.  These direction need to be actionable, not visionary and align with the organizations mission.  Greg stated that the needs to be a vision of where online learning will be in five years. 

SLN was asked to create an area in the Confluence site to show which LMS is being used by each campus, what SLN services they utilize, etc.  SLN will try to have it available by the end of the summer.

Distribution of Minutes
It was decided that approved minutes will be posted on the SLN Website.  The SLN Monthly Update will be used as an email distribution mechanism to alert recipients of availability of approved minutes.

Next Meeting
Greg will send an e-mail asking for dates in the last week of July or first week of August.