Social Change and Development Meeting Minutes
February 12, 2003
11:00 am – 12:15 pm

Present: Andrew Austin, Mark Everingham, Andrew Kersten, Craig Lockard, Kim Nielsen, Larry Smith, Lynn Walter
I. Celebrations

• Andrew Austin announced that Ashlin Malouf has been accepted to the Landegg International University in Switzerland. She will double major in Global Governance and Leadership along with Conflict Resolution. She plans to visit in March and to arrange an internship in Geneva at either the WHO or UN.
• Austin also announced that he is working with the American Sociological Association’s project “Spotlight on Departments” which will highlight SCD in the ASA publication Footnotes.
• Finally, Austin announced that his “Does Forced Sexual Contact Have Criminogenic Effects?: An Empirical Test of Derailment Theory” will soon appear in the Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment, and Trauma.
• Kim Nielsen announced that NYU Press have moved her biography of Helen Keller from the history section to the general interest section of its catalog and will increase the press run.

II. Minutes of December 9, 2002 were approved unanimously.

III. Search and Screen Update
Craig Lockard provided an update on the search for Mark Everingham’s one year replacement. Lockard believed that there were several good candidates in the pool.

IV. Program Review
Lynn Walter led a discussion about the recent program review which focused on two issues: 1) whether and how to assess the emphases within the SCD major and 2) whether SCD should archive student portfolios. Although several good ideas and comments were made, no resolutions were immediately found. The group did praise Lynn Walter for the masterful job she did in preparing the program review.

V. Sexual Harassment Awareness Training.
Walter explained that there would be a new round of sexual harassment awareness training. Dates and times will be forthcoming. Everyone is expected to attend these sessions.

VI. Course Waiting Lists.
Walter provided information about the new course waiting list system which will be instituted sometime in the near future. Soon students will be able to use the PeopleSoft system to not only register for courses but also to sign up on a waiting list for courses.

VII. New Business.
Larry Smith described his Door County project which aims to support wise choices for land use and land development. He asked that SCD faculty support his program which they did.

Lynn Walter brought to the attention of the SCD faculty a student request to create a problem solving course that would address solutions to the problems often discussed in SCD and related courses. Austin commented that such problem solving skills are already embedding within most (if not all) SCD courses. The group did discuss creating more internship possibilities with NGOs.

Respectfully submitted,

Andrew E. Kersten