CCSC-NW Regional Board meeting
Saturday, Otober 4, 2003
13:30 – 14:30, Central Washington University

Board Members Present:
	Rob Bryant (Gonzaga U.),
	Grant Eastman (Central Wash. U.),
	David Wolff (Pacific Lutheran U.),
	Jenny Orr, (Willamette U.),
	George Hauser (Pacific Lutheran U.),
	Phil Prins (Seattle Pacific U.),
	Fritz Ruehr (Willamette U.)

PP opened  the meeting at 13:30.

1. Please check the members present list carefully as the secretary did not properly record them at the meeting.  (Since there were so many people present I didn't even think of writing down any names.)
2. The minutes of the last meeting were approved via email before the meeting.  The secretary forgot to ask for a formal vote and is not sure whether one was really needed.
3. The 2003 conference was recognized as being a great success.  In particular we thanked and apprecieated the work of Ed Gellenbeck (conference chair) and Grant Eastman (site chair and conference chair pro-tem in Ed's absence at the conference).
4. Jerry Roth was recognized for his leadership role as Registration Chair for the entire history of the CCSC-NW conference (5 years).  We wish him well on his sabbatical next year.
5. PP introduced the board officers to the people at the meeting.
6. PP announced the following schedule for future conferences: 
1. 2004 at Willamette
2. 2005 at Bothell (Carol Zander and/or Mike Panitz)
3. 2006 at Eastern (Ray Hammel)
4. 2007 at Linfield (maybe)
7. PP announced that there will be an election for board secretary in the spring.  An email ballot will be sent out at that time.
8. JO reported on the status of the 2004 conference.
1. The conference chairs were announced.
1. Conference : Jenny Orr, Willamette
2. Site: Fritz Ruehr, Willamette
3. Papers: Sharon Tuttle,  Humboldt State
4. Panels & Tutorials: Martin Dwomoh-Tweneboah, Linfield
5.Program: Rob Bryant, Gonzaga
6. Speakers: Judy Cushing, Evergreen
7. Vendors: Mary Jane Willshire, University of Portland
8. Posters: Sherry Yang, Oregon Institute of Technology
9. Registration: Tim Rolfe, Eastern
10. Webmaster: Ed Gellenbeck, Central Washington
2. We want more student posters.
3. We will not be using a theme yet.
4. We'd like to go to an online paper submission and review process for the 2004 conference.
9. PP listed these regional goals:
1. All guidelines for conference and board positions published on the web.  We are about 90% done with this.
2. Region's documents on a  web site.
3. The mailing list is updated and now covers all of CCSC thanks to Brent Wilson's super effort.
10. JO Said "Come to Willamette!"  If you have any questions please send her an email at gorr@willamette.edu.
11. RB asked whether we prefer papers to panels or vice versa.  There was no clear consensus from the people present.
12. PP said that he would bring up the idea of templates for conference papers at national for download from the regions' web sites.
13. RB 
1. CCSC oversees the regions and has grown from a small organization to a very large one.  Several of the national board members have been doing their job since the beginning and we need to spread these skills around.  As it is if the national editor or treasurer were to disapear tomorrow we'd be in a world of strife.
2. There will be no more regions formed until national gets itself better organized to handle be as large as we have become.
3. We should remember that national financially backs each and every region.
4. Someone pointed out that our conference date is hard for schools on the quarter system.  Rob countered that we had no say because national assigned us the use of the first or second weekend in October to avoid conflicts with conferences for other regions.
14. PP Everyone applauded Rob Bryant's pivotal leadership role in the creation of the our region.  We wished him the best of luck as he moves on to be president of national.