National Association of Industrial
                      and Technical Teacher Educators
                 Executive Committee Quarterly Telemeeting
                        Thursday, February 12, 1997
                                1:00 pm EST
     
Presiding:     Sam Stern, President
     
Participating: Rod Custer, Mike Dyrenfurth, Jeff Flesher, Nevin
               Frantz, Roger Hill, Ted Lewis, Jim Lorenz, Gregory 
               Petty, Sam Stern
     
1.0  Secretary's Report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Roger Hill
     
     1.1  Minutes were previously sent for Executive Meetings and
          Breakfast Meeting at 1996 AVA and one correction was 
          noted where Frank Pratzner was listed as the person who 
          would chair the Awards Committee.  Motion to approve 
          the minutes was made by Nevin Frantz, second by Mike 
          Dyrenfurth, and motion passed.
     
     1.2  Corrections to officer list were reported and a new
          version of that will be electronically distributed.
     
     1.3  Final revisions have been completed for the
          Administrative Handbook.  Plans for distribution to 
          officers were discussed and it was decided that it will 
          be sent to the officers electronically as an attached 
          document.  It will be sent in WordPerfect and Microsoft 
          Word formats and then in hard copy form to anyone who 
          requests that.
     
2.0  Membership Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jim Lorenz
     
     2.1  Jim Lorenz reported that current members number 290.
          This reflects a fairly stable figure.
     
     2.2  When applications for membership are coming through
          from the NAITTE home page on the WWW, checks are 
          usually not forthcoming without some follow-up 
          correspondence.  Recommendation was made to provide 
          more prominent instructions to send a check for 
          membership dues.
     
     
3.0  Treasurers Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jeff Flesher
     
     3.1  No problems or concerns were reported with respect to
          finances.  Tax paperwork is now being processed. 
          Follow-up is needed to change the address for checking 
          account statements from Nevin to Jeff.
     
4.0  Publications Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rod Custer
     
     4.1  Issue 2 of volume 34 of the JITE is in the process of
          being delivered.  Issue 3 of volume 34 is being 
          prepared.
     
     4.2  A request has gone out to encourage graduate students
          to begin participating in the review process, with 
          feedback and guidance provided by professional members 
          who are part of the review team.
     
     4.3  Response to the requests sent to libraries for renewal
          of subscriptions has been less than desired.  Library 
          subscriptions on record temporarily decreased from 343 
          to 97 when records were reviewed and corrected.  An 
          error in procedures allowed shipment of journals to 
          continue to some libraries even though subscriptions 
          had not been renewed.  Some renewals have been 
          received, but the printing order for the current issue 
          of the journal was reduced to 150 over the number 
          needed for member copies.
     
     4.4  A suggestion was made that fiscal cycle timing might be
          an issue for some libraries.  Also Ted Lewis mentioned 
          that brokers or subscription services had been a major 
          source of subscriptions for the JVER he was editor of, 
          and he will send information about those to Rod.
     
     4.5  Rod indicated that he would follow-up with the process
          of encouraging library subscriptions and also will 
          coordinate efforts to have graduate students involved 
          with the review process with Susan Olson.
     
     4.6  Everyone was encouraged to continue sending manuscripts
          and to also consider "at issue" and "book review" 
          articles as those are always in short supply.
     
5.0  Satellite Meetings. . . . . . . . .Greg Petty, Roger Hill, & Ted Lewis
     
     5.1  Arrangements have been made for a satellite breakfast
          meeting to take place at the Academy of Human Resource 
          Development conference in Atlanta on Friday, March 7, 
          from 7:00-8:15 am.  The agenda will include a general 
          overview of NAITTE activities, some comment about goals 
          and purpose, and information about the JITE.  Dick 
          Swanson and Ed Holton have been supportive of 
          developing possible ties between NAITTE and the AHRD.
     
     5.2  Ted Lewis has worked to plan a NAITTE activity to take
          place at the ITEA Conference in Tampa.  Plans were 
          established to have a supper meeting on Sunday evening, 
          March 23rd, from 5:30-7:00 pm.  A location will need to 
          be chosen, and efforts will be made to publicize this 
          event.
     
6.0  Brochure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Roger Hill
     
     
     6.1  A revised brochure is being prepared and any suggested
          revisions should be sent to Roger Hill.  Action during 
          the last Executive Meeting at AVA approved funding of 
          this project.
     
     6.2  Greg Petty still has some copies of the old brochure
          and will send some of those to persons who need it. 
          Nevin Frantz and Mike Dyrenfurth requested 
          approximately 200 copies each.
     
7.0  Planning for 1997 AVA Convention. . . . . . . . . . . Mike Dyrenfurth
     
     7.1  Ned Swartz, program chair for Technical Education, has
          agreed to work with NAITTE for programming purposes.  A 
          draft of the program is not yet available.
     
     7.2  A decision is needed concerning a lead-off topic for
          the opening general session.  Changes in the Research 
          Symposium would impact the program in that only one 
          slot will be needed for research presentations.
     
     7.3  Several suggestions were considered for the opening
          NAITTE session and the topic chosen was related to an 
          international study of competitiveness.  Nevin Frantz 
          indicated that the NAITTE Breakfast speaker would 
          probably address national skills standards.
     
     7.4  The NAITTE program this year will be reduced somewhat
          to maximize participation and attendance.  Diversity 
          and inclusiveness will be stressed.  All VP's were 
          encouraged to submit a proposal for a session which 
          would be of special interest to their constituents.
     
8.0  T & I Standards Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nevin Frantz
     
     8.1  Progress continues on developing strategies for
          implementing the standards.  Surveys and interviews 
          with leaders in the field are being conducted as a part 
          of this process.
     
9.0  Meeting adjourned at 1:55 pm EST.
     
Respectfully submitted,
     
     
Roger B. Hill
Secretary
     
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