LSAC Meeting Minutes – March 15, 2021

Meeting minutes taken by Lori Dassa.

Attendance

John Kranzler (SESPEC), Swapna Kumar, Kelli Peck Parrott (HDOSE), Kati Maki (SESPECS), Thomasenia Adams (Dean’s Rep), Helena Pan Mawdsley (STL), Lori Dassa (STL)

Goals for the Year

We have met our Goals for the year focusing on inequities

  • Had guest speaker Sherri Proctor
  • 18 people attended and it was well received

Matt Schmidt’s Application for Speaker

Discussed Matt Schmidt’s application for speaker (Parsons and IALT connection)

Decided it was more appropriate to move to next fall

Awards

Dennison Award

  • 2 applications submitted
  • Both were very strong, committee made selection
  • Feedback for both will be sent to OER

Assistant Professor Awards

  • 6 applications submitted, committee made selection
  • Focused on traditional assistant professor to meet the university level needs
  • Competitive against all university candidates
  • Focus is on grant work and publications
  • Needs to have national visibility
  • Did discuss the need for future college recognition of assistant professors and their work
  • Many amazing candidates and work being done

Graduate Student Awards – March 30th (moved from 26th)

  • Use the criteria listed by Edugator Central
  • Use the excel file sent by Helena to plug in your scores
  • Email back to Helena by March 26th

Rosser and Haines Awards – March 30th

  • Email decisions to Helena with specific feedback