CCSC-NW Regional Board meeting
Saturday, May 15, 2004
11:00 – 14:00, University of Washington at Bothell

Board Members Present:
	David Wolff (Pacific Lutheran U.),
	Jenny Orr, (Willamette U.),
	George Hauser (Pacific Lutheran U.),
	Phil Prins (Seattle Pacific U.),
	Mike Panitz (Cascadia Community College),
	Carrol Zander (U. Washington Bothell),
	Ron Tennison (Linfield College) (guest)

PP opened  the meeting at 11:00

1. The minutes of the January 2004 board meeting were approved.
2. PP: George Hauser was reelected as secretary.
3. JO: 2004 Conference Status
1. Over 30 papers submitted with a 60% acceptance.
2. Student Posters
1. We need judging criteria
2. We kindly ask that the 2003 judges draft criteria
3. PP: Keynote and Dinner speakers
1. Should be registered for the conference
2. Pay no fees
3. Travel accomodations covered
4. Meal choice and so on should be elicited
4. PP: Official Acknowledgements from the conference chair
1. Conference Committee members
2. Program Committee
3. Volunteers, etc.
5. RT would like committee chairs to keep a physical notebook as well as the electronic documents and timelines we have now.
1. This was not adopted by the board but was encouraged.
6. The August mailing should go to authors as well as the usual suspects.
7. We would like to add survey questions to authors and attendees about how they heard of us.
8. We have added a Birds of a Feather opportunity for participants.
9. We need moderators for the sessions = we all "volunteered"
1. A period of intense wrangling over moderating sessions ensued
10. RT requested moderator rules and/or guidelines.  We opted to let each moderator make something up.
4. CZ: 2005 Conference Status
1. The budget is not yet approved by national
2. We have higher travel costs due to a new board member from California and higher fuel costs.
1. We doubled the travel budget
5. Future Conferences
1. 2006 Eastern Washington but still unsure
2. 2007 Linfield is sure
3. 2008 unknown but western Washington desired
6. Membership Database
1. JO: DB is not being kept up to date.
2. Who is going to do this & when & how
3. PP: National has a new DB committee
4. Brent Wilson is the chair and they are discussing this
7. PP: National stuff
1. Northeast had an idea for using $8,000 for the "handout" gifts
2. We probably can increase the quality of our gifts which is currently at the ballpoint pen level
3. The bylaws committee is looking at student, teaching assistant, etc. Memberships
4. There is a suggestion to publish the journal on CD-ROM instead of on paper
1. It was pointed out that CDs may not be accepted by a Rank and Tenure committee as a publication.
2. We seem to think our antiquated peers on such committees will not accept CDs and it is too risky to attempt them now.
5. We will not be affiliated with the NECC
6. Two regions are doing PayPal for registration
8. JO: What do I do with vendors.  Who contacts them and what is the difference between national and local.
1. Call the national vendors chair and the last conference vendors chair to find out how things work.
2. Everything comes together at the conference.
9. CZ: Tour of UW Bothell facilities
1. Great facilities
2. Lots of nice light
3. Lots of big noisy fans
4. Lots of computers and cool control screens