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Attendees: Katrina Rogers (co-chair) and Board, Susie Garretson (president) and Susan Golightly. Robert Breunig (CEO) and staff, Tracy Anderson, Sat Best, Dave Gillette, Elaine Hughes, Laura Rogers, and intern, Catherine Nichols.

Absent: Allan Affeldt (co-chair) and Board, Miguel Vasquez, Sam Henderson, Rowena Dickerson, and staff, Susan Olberding, and Lynn Yeager.

The meeting was convened at 2:05 PM.

The June 22, 2006 IPC agenda was to discuss final drafts of Goals; present the official “estimated cost” categories to the Committee and reiterate important elements of the Plan according to the AAM; discuss the feasibility of an early September submission of the Institutional Plan/Self Study; and establish what’s next in the Planning process.

Laura Rogers had emailed final drafts of Goals II, V, VII, and IX to IPC members for review prior to this meeting. Members took an additional five minutes at the meeting to review all goals. Following, the Committee took 45 minutes to discuss each goal in detail and make final suggestions and edits.

After making small changes to Goals II, V, and VII they will be complete. Goal IX requires more substantial editing, and will therefore be discussed again in detail at the next IPC meeting on July 6 alongside Goals III, IV, and possibly Goal I. In mid-July the IPC will receive Goals VI and VIII to review prior to the last IPC meeting on July 20 during which the Committee plans to review the comprehensive Institutional Plan and approve it for presentation to the Board of Trustees on August 5, 2006. In short, the IPC plans to finalize MNA’s Institutional Plan by the end of July.

During the last 15 minutes, Laura reviewed the official categories for “estimated costs” and described a “preface” she plans on creating for the Plan, which will describe these categories and other structural elements such as the timeline and progress column (coming soon). She will present an outline—title page, table of contents, goals outline, goals’ templates—for the Institutional Plan that will be submitted with the Self Study at the next meeting.

Lastly the IPC reviewed the final steps for completing the Institutional Plan and AAM Self Study, especially the growing agenda for new and/or revised documents in need of approval by the Board of Trustees on August 5, 2006. Robert Breunig suggested the Board schedule an additional Board meeting in early September for the approval of documents in order to lighten the load of the August meeting. Though, it was noted that Laura, Accreditation Coordinator, and Accreditation Intern Catherine Nichols will depart from MNA in mid-August.

The meeting was adjourned at 3:04 PM.

Respectfully submitted,
Laura C. Rogers