Present: Lynn Bell, Linda Bennett-Elder, Jim Black, Bruce Caster, Mike Crowe, Kurt Keppler, Blake Pearce,
             Ruth Stonestreet, Susan Thomas and Fred Ware.

Excused: Frank Barnas, Louis Levy and Jerry Siegrist.

Guest: Leah Cassoria, Editor of the Spectator.

Location: Odum Library Meeting Room.

• Fred Ware, acting on behalf of Jerry Siegrist, new Chairperson of the IPC, called the meeting to order at 3:00 p.m. A quorum was declared.
• No minutes from the previous meeting were available for approval.
• The 2002-2003 IPC meeting schedule previously developed by Dr. Siegrist was approved. Meetings will be held in the Odum Library Meeting Room on the third Wednesdays of the month at 3:00 p.m.
• Lynn Bell moved that the IPC request action by the Committee on Committees to take immediate action to offset two potential IPC continuity problems: (1) Four members’ terms of serving will expire in 2005 which would violate Article VI, Section 5, d (3) of the VSU Statutes, i.e., 1/3 of the membership is replaced each year; one solution would be to ask one of the new appointees to serve an additional year, and (2) Leadership continuity would be served if the chairperson were appointed to a two-year term (as allowed by the IPC Bylaws, Article IV). The motion was approved. Fred Ware agreed to forward these requests to the Executive Secretary of the Faculty Senate.
• The job of Secretary of the IPC was discussed. Although the current IPC Bylaws require that a Secretary be elected at the first meeting of the academic year, the committee agreed unanimously that the services of a professional secretary were needed to insure accuracy and appropriate dissemination of committee activity. The decision was made to postpone the appointment until the IPC Bylaws could be revised to accommodate this change. The point was made that among other duties, the Secretary would need to maintain a current web page for the IPC which exists but has already become out of date.
• Copies of the IPC Bylaws taken from the IPC web site (valdosta.edu/ipc/ipc.htm were distributed and discussed. Mike Crowe stated that there is a newer version of this document in existence which was utilized during the SACS visit. The committee agreed that the IPC Bylaws will need a major revision with the arrival on September 30, 2002 of the new Chief Planning Officer, Dr. Marsha Krotseng, plus the current development of a University Planning Council ( group composed of faculty, staff, students, and members of the administration charged with assess- ing the progress and maintaining current and analytical documentation of each of the eight goals in the strategic plan [ref.: www.valdosta.edu/news, September16, 2002, "VSU Appoints New Planning Officer"]).
• The committee agreed unanimously to invite Dr. Marsha Krotseng to its next slated meeting on October 16 at 3:00 p.m., and to request that the Executive Committee of the Faculty Senate immediately appoint Dr. Krotseng as an ex officio member of the IPC.
• The committee agreed unanimously that Goal #1, developed at the March, 2002 Strategic Planning Retreat, would be of special interest to this body: "Utilize an integrated, continuous, strategic planning process to implement all university changes." Linda Bennett-Elder obtained and distributed copies of the detailed five Action Steps associated with Goal #1 which were then discussed.

There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 4:30 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,

Fred Ware

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