In attendance were: Rick Matthews, Barbara Short, Michelle Bonn, David Steege, Mark Snavely, Leondard Schulze, and Alan Wallace.

1. Next meeting is Oct. 10 at 10:30am.
2. Letter to go to the dept. chairs after the workshop as follow-up.
3. Mark: emailed Dave Robinson about the proposal:
• There are formatting issues with the electronic form. It doesn’t accept a syllabus. Courses descriptions are there and the WI component.

• Should be ready in a week and department chairs will get a letter when it is up and running. The responsibility for WI classes (other than Heritage) is up to the depts. Plan should be filed from the depts. to the WAC committee by mid November. Also helps with staffing needs.
• Department chair approval is needed for each class submitted.
• Should be easy to use: Simply fill out the form and hit submit; data is collected in a database. Carthage faculty standard login is used.
• Backup for the data is 1 week to 4 months: the executive committee should be asked about this issue.
4. Certificates will be sent to attendees who completed the training sessions Aug.28-31, 2006.
• 66 people attended in all: 61 came to all of the sessions including 30 dept. chairs.

• Heritage attendance 70 Heritage instructors and 50 came to the workshop. 17 Heritage instructors didn’t take the training that should have completed the process. 8 people who didn’t have to have the sessions took them.
• What do we do with the faculty who should have taken the sessions? It’s a hard position to be in since they are full time faculty. Heritage classes are all listed as WI. The list of absentee faculty was reviewed and letters will be sent, possibly in two versions (those who notified about being absent and those who did not). Letter includes filling out the form of what they are going to do in their classes for Heritage in the spring that makes the class writing intensive which is a realistic expectation. The letter going out to faculty will include the WAC criteria.
• Mark, David, and Alan will draft the letter and submit it to the database. Respond to database is required by the end of October from the absentee faculty.
• It was good that we had an outside consultant this time, Marty Townsend. We may be able to start doing our own in the future; Marty will help us with this transition. This may be one of the largest groups of trainees and we certified many faculty. In fact, we went over budget with the Dean to pay folks ($50 a half day). Still in process of payment.
• Leonard discussed strategic problems with work laid on the Heritage committee.

• Faculty must be certified to teach a writing intensive class; the committee will kick back the proposal otherwise.
5. Next year: the dates are set for Aug. 28, 29, 30, 2007.
6. Fall schedules come out in Feb. It is recommended that dept. chairs put in the courses identified by faculty.
7. Special acknowledgement to Maria for the instant minutes and FAQ’s.

Respectfully submitted: Barbara J. Short with help from Michelle Bonn