KASADA
Executive Committee
December 9, 2013

Meeting Minutes

In attendance: Stephanie Walker, Millie Therrien, Amy Wilkens, Lisa Froning, Kay Levandowski, Steven Antalvari, Katie Peterson, Stephanie Rager, Katie Frantz, Christine Connors

  1. Call to order: 8:35 am
  1. Reviews of Minutes- Amy Wilkens- Minutes were not sent prior to meeting. Will be emailed immediately following meeting for approval.
  1. Treasury Membership Update- Lisa Froning

·  Review of funds available and budgets- attached

·  $400 budgeted for Fall Forum, which was cancelled.

  1. Committee Updates
  2. Communication- Katie Peterson

·  KASADA Scholarship Application will be sent out

·  Due Jan 31st

  1. Professional Development- Kay Levandowski

·  Fall Forum- may want to rethink timing due to busy Fall schedules with required advising

·  Welcome back luncheon Spring 2014 (use funds not spent for cancelled Fall Forum)

·  Possible date- January 24th

·  Location ideas being discussed- possibly BW3’s or Guacamoles

·  May Conference

·  Concept and Speaker- still looking

·  Motivational advising- Jason Miller visited EHHS

·  Kay- How to make advising better and how to connect degree fields to jobs, career development and making applicable to advisors (be intentional about their careers)

·  Steven- University Advising- working on Advising Guidelines-Key area is career piece- basic understanding of career services available to students and transitioning them over to career services—Steven suggested Kevin Glavin- University of Colorado. (Specialty working with career development) Also suggested having Dr. Savickas to possibly close the conference.

·  Meeting with Akron on December 19th to discuss issues students on their campus may be having.

·  Discussed inviting Jason Miller to our welcome back luncheon in January. Chris will email to see if he is available

  1. Regional Campus:

·  Discussed having the Regional Campus Update in February 2014

·  Location: Trumbull or Salem

·  Requested a list of contacts of members from regional campus- will need help identifying advisors at the regional campuses to help out with regional campus update. Steven will send list out to find from each campus who will be presenting

·  Once have location, date, agenda, Regional Campus will work with Steven on topics

  1. University Advising

·  Spring retreat March 18th (possible date being considered).

·  Liaison with UA to make sure our goals being met

·  Help increase attendance at events

·  Priority Reg.- March 19th

  1. New Business
  2. Brown bag for conference proposals- will pick a date and align with when proposals are due
  3. Stephanie and Millie plan on meeting with ZACADA at The University of Akron to see if/how they will participating in our May Conference
  4. By-laws- Schedule time to go through together – with schedule a meeting in February. 11:00am -1:00pm would be a good time.
  5. Old Business

·  Commissions and Interest groups- Stephanie working on setting up listservs- ideas to grow the CIGS?

·  Kay- participation in Interest Groups is challenging due to required advising

·  Steven- spring retreat will discuss best practices for required advising

·  Stephanie and Millie will be meeting with Scott Roberts- ZACADA to talk about expectations- Kay suggested PD be involved with that. Looking at membership, participation from outside schools. Will we continue to collaborate?

  1. Announcements- Kristen Williams has returned to Kent- Director of Career Services for College of Business
  2. May 7, 8, 9 – DKS Training – is this too close to the KASADA conference? All agreed that is fine.
  3. Meeting adjourned at 9:42 am.
  4. Next meeting will be held February 10, 2014.

Treasury and Membership Update

November 8, 2013

Account Balances (as of October 2013 statements)

Checking $ 3,409.41

Savings $ 3,323.74

Agency $ 3,888.58

TOTAL $10,621.73

Budgets for 2013-2014

Treasurer $ 500.00 Scholarship for Annual Conference

75.00 Allied Member Renewal

50.00 CashNet Merchant Fees

9.20 Book of Stamps

Total $ 634.20

Professional Development

$ 500.00 Networking Lunch ($454.54 actual spent)

400.00 Fall Forum ($0 actual spent)

9,070.00 May Conference

Total $ 9,970.00

TOTAL $10,604.20

2013-2014 Membership

Total = 146

Representation:

·  Kent State University

·  Ashland University

·  Cuyahoga Community College

·  Eastern Gateway Community College

·  Lorain County Community College

·  The University of Akron

·  Youngstown State University