CITADEL FACULTY RESEARCH COMMITTEE
MINUTES – 2 SEPTEMBER 2004

The organizational meeting of the 2004/05 Committee was convened by Peter Mailloux at 11 AM.

Virginia De Roma, seconded by David Heisser, nominated Keith Knapp to serve as chair. He was elected by acclamation.

Keith said that he would send out calls for Presentation grants and New Faculty grants. He called a meeting for 23 September to review Presentation grants due on 20 September. The meeting was adjourned at 11:30 AM.

MINUTES – 23 SEPTEMBER 2004

The meeting was called to order by Chair Keith Knapp at 11:05 AM.

Attending: Dot Moore, Peter Mailloux, Bob Steed, Bill Denig, Josey Templeton, Saul J. Adelman, Guy Toubiana, Kevin Crawford, Jeff Davis, David Heisser.

The Chair asked for nominations for Committee Secretary. David Heisser volunteered and was elected unanimously.

The Chair said he would like to divide the Committee into three subcommittees corresponding to the Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities, so as to make the work of reviewing the regular Research proposals more evenly distributed. Last year the Social Sciences/Humanities people had many more applications to review than did the Sciences. It was decided to discuss this at a future, procedural meeting.

The members discussed the Presentation applicatons.

Several issues came up for discussion and future consideration. These included:

Evidence of acceptance of papers. Under the procedures to be followed this year, faculty members tell the Committee when they expect they will be accepted, if they have not already been accepted. The Committee does not require written proof. Saul Adelman suggested that it would suffice to add a sentence to the call and procedures stating that a grantee must present proof that her/his paper was accepted in order to be reimbursed. The Chair said the Committee will come back to this point when it considers revising the forms.

A question was raised whether a Presentation application can include membership in the organization holding the conference, if membership is part of the registration fee. The consensus of the Committee was that this is standard, therefore acceptable.

It was also discussed whether the Committee will consider applications that are incomplete. The consensus was that the Committee will do so.

The Chair proposed that these and other issues be discussed and decided at a subsequent meeting.

There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 12:00 noon.

David Heisser, Secretary