MEETING
MINUTES OF:
DATE: September 9, 2010
PRESENT: Margaret Callahan, Diane Dressler, Barb Haag-Heitman,
Richard Fehring
ABSENT: Maureen O’Reilly, Mary Darling, Maureen Greene,
Mary Polchert
HELD: Room 220, Clark Hall, Marquette University College
of Nursing |
SUBJECT |
DISCUSSION |
ACTION FOLLOW-UP DATE |
Call
to order |
4:10 by President Barb H-H
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Minutes |
8-18-10
minutes approved with minor revisions/changes. Motion
by Diane Dressler; seconded by Dr. Richard Fehring. Terrie
Garcia to email minutes for upload to the DG website to
Mary Polchert after revisions made.
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Terrie Garcia |
Chapter Key
Award |
Chapter Key Award deferred |
|
Creating
Welcoming Environments |
Discussion revolved around
creating welcoming environments to help increase membership.
Several ideas surfaced as a way to increase the number of
diverse members and graduating students such as giving faculty
a quick factsheet with membership benefits to increase visibility
of chapter and inviting President H-H to speak to BEYOND
students. Board members have been increasing awareness/visibility.
For example, Maureen Obrien addressed graduate students at
orientation. Dr. Callahan suggested targeting faculty who
have exposure to junior and senior students. President H-H
suggested that Terrie Garcia and Diana Dressler also explore
marketing tools (i.e. brochures/handouts) to increase membership
when they attend the Leadership Summit in October. |
All |
Leadership
Academy |
Terrie Garcia and Diane
Dressler will be attending a STTI Leadership Summit October
16-17, 2010 at Arlington, TX. Keynote speakers include Beverly
Malone Patricia E. Thompson, and Billye Brown. Terrie and
Diane to provide a report at the November meeting. |
Terrie Garcia and Diane
Dressler |
Delta Gamma
At Large - Barb Haag-Heitman |
Patty
Schroeder, Barb H-H, and Diane Dressler accomplished a
great deal in terms of identifying steps. Deans will
be called for feedback as well as asking people at conference
for feedback. Questions raised included: How do we invite
students from different schools, what does equal party
ownership look like, how will the Alverno grading system
rank students for membership, and how could we ensure an
even distribution of members from each of the colleges.
Areas that need to be addressed include review of chapter
amendment list, notices for membership involvement, and
a detailed timeline. One of the areas of focus will be
to increase the number of Alverno members, at this point
there is a very small core. We would need to identify potential
new members for the Spring induction. Patty Varga, from
Alverno, was recommended to help with identification of
potential Alverno members. Overall progress is being made.
Sara Morgan will be attending the next meeting to continue
discussion. We are looking at a potential implementation
date in Spring of 2011. |
Barb H-H and Diane Dressler |
Fall
Educational Event - Maureen O'Reilly & Margaret Callahan |
Maureen
O’Reilly is
overseeing the planning for the fall educational event. At
this time, Maureen was not present at meeting to discuss
event, however board discussed the following event ideas:
offering a fall event in conjunction with MUCN, offer a separate
event in November at the CON, sponsor an event about mentoring
for Project BEYOND nursing students, offer an information
webinar for membership, ask Dr. Kirsten Haglund and Dr. Kathryn
Osborne to present. Overall, the decision for the fall educational
event will be left to Maureen O’Reilly. Discussions
will continue at next meeting. Barb H-H reminded board that
we need to offer a minimum of two educational events/year
to members at large.
Other discussions included use of
various vehicles to hold a general meeting and inform
membership about the possibility of an “at large” chapter.
Some ideas discussed included blogging, email, webinar,
and adding a video to the STTIDG website. No decisions
were made at this time. Discussions will continue at
next meeting.
Other ideas discussed to increase
visibility at MUCN would be to place the STTIDG logo
on materials/handouts being distributed at MUCN events.
Dr. Callahan mentioned that she would talk to advancement
about putting logo on some of the materials used for
specific events. |
Maureen
O’Reilly
Dr. Callahan |
Project
BEYOND |
Discussion revolved around
the importance of providing funds to support peer tutoring
for Project BEYOND students. It was suggested that ~$3,600
could support 4 students @ 3 hours a week for the 2010-2011
academic year. All agreed this would be a worthwhile and
meaningful cause. Barb H-H will to present this to membership. |
Barb H-H and Terrie Garcia |
Research - Richard Fehring |
Dr. Fehring attended the
Bridges Conference group. Currently there are five chapters
in Milwaukee (DG MU; ETA Nu Chapter UWM, Phi Beta Chapter
Concordia, Tau Mu , Carroll University). The research conference
will be held Friday May 13th; the theme will relate to debunking
evidenced-based myths. Cheryl Beck, NIH researcher, may be
one of the speakers addressing these myths. Other ideas included
asking the Medical College of Wisconsin to provide a speaker
during lunch to address this topic as well.
Lastly, another way to increase visibility and create
welcoming environments through the DG display, however
the display needs to be updated. Barb H-H to work on this. |
Barb H-H |
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Meeting
adjourned 5:04p.m. Next meeting changed to 10-20-10 at
4:00 pm. Terrie Garcia to book room at MUCN accordingly.
November will be left open at this time for possible
meeting dates. |
Respectfully submitted,
Juanita T. Garcia, MEd, RN |
