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Minutes
Virginia Chapter of the Society of Research Administrators
Monday, January 9, 2009
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Virginia
President Sharon Boyd called the meeting to order at 8:53 a.m. In attendance were President–elect Sharon Boyd, President-elect Kate Ferguson, Treasurer Audree Hughes, and over 80 conference attendees. Ms. Boyd introduced the officers in attendance.
Officers’ Reports
The draft minutes of the May 19, 2008 meeting were reviewed by the membership. There was a motion to approve the minutes which was seconded and unanimously approved.
The Treasurer’s report dated January 9, 2009 was presented by Ms. Hughes and reviewed by the membership. The report indicated a balance of $625.32
Committee Reports
Meetings Committee: Ms. Ferguson spoke about the matter of future meetings. A spring 2009 meeting is schedule to be held at Old Dominion University; fall 2009 at Virginia Tech; Spring 2010 at George Mason University; and no plans yet for fall 2010. A suggestion was made to have a meeting at NIH or take a trip to NIH. Another suggestion was to have a side trip to NSF when the meeting is held at GMU.
Herbert Chermside FellowshipReceipient Report: LaVonne Teagarden (VCU), recipient of the Herbert Chermside Fellowship, reported highlights of her attendance at the SRA Southern Section Meeting held at the Hilton Head, SC, May 17-21, 2008.
Nominations Committee: Kobby Hoffman announced that nominations are being accepted for officers. Self-nominations are accepted. The committee will then prepare a slate to the membership. Ms. Hoffman asked attendees to contact her to nominate themselves or others.
By-laws Committee: Ms. Boyd noted that SRA International would like us to use its bylaws template for our bylaws. Ms. Boyd inserted our verbiage on the SRA-I template and the result is included in the meeting folder. These draft bylaws will be posted on the website for review and comment by the membership. When we meet again in June/July the bylaws committee will perform a final review. Attendees were encouraged to let Ms. Boyd know if changes are necessary. A discussion regarding the bylaws will occur at the next meeting.
Old Business
A CRA review session was considered for this meeting but there were not 15 people who registered and, as it turns out, the session leader would not have been able to attend. The RACC website is available for those wishing to have a CRA review.
Ms. Boyd announced that the VA-SRA website will be updated. She also expressed a desire that the VA-SRA email listserv be used more frequently.
New Business
Ms. Boyd reminded attendees to apply for the travel fellowship.
A discussion ensued regarding the frequency and length of VA-SRA meetings. Support was expressed for one-day meetings to allow more to attend and avoid the costs of overnights stays. Also, if someone missed a meeting they would have to wait a whole other year before another meeting would occur.
Support was also expressed for longer meetings to allow for more networking than can occur at one day meetings. Ms. Boyd asked for a show of hands regarding these options and there were more hands raised in support of keeping the shorter meetings with two per year.
Ms. Boyd suggested a membership chair would form a committee to discuss the VA-SRA meeting schedule going forward.
She noted that evaluations for the meeting would be done electronically and encouraged all to submit feedback.
There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 9:34 a.m.
Respectfully submitted:
Michael P. Ludwick
Temporary Secretary
Edits: 1-11-10
Cindy Corbett
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VA-SRA
Minutes 01/09/2009