Spring 2007 Planning meeting – 21 January 2007

• At the meeting today, the current planning committee (Layne, Marcee, Erin, Lydia, Kate, Stephanie, Emily, Jessica) mostly went back over the items we had talked about back in December, and signed up for different committees/activities. Here’s what we came up with:
• Send out email to Broken Eggs about FSG (Did someone sign up for this? If not, want to?)
• Send out a short email about the group, activities/projects, and listserv/blog information
• Mentor committee (contact Marcee Monroe)
• Getting feedback from mentors/mentees (Stephanie)
• Talk to Kevin about making the mentor program a permanent part of the orientation, and sending out information/survey/blog address in the initial new student packets (Erin)
• Panel at the ALG symposium
• First weekend in March
• A panel of speakers will present at the symposium, with the goal of presenting an overview of how we started the group, what kinds of panels/activities we have done, and the opportunity to have a roundtable about what other kinds of issues/activities the UT English Grad community would like to see
• Write up proposal (Layne)
• Potluck (contact Emily Bloom)
• Tentatively scheduled for April
• Liaise with WGL faculty
• Informal Mentor roundtable/happy hour (Stephanie/Erin)
• The point of this would be to gather the mentors (and mentees?) to talk about our experiences as mentors, and how we could improve the program (what worked? Didn’t work? New ideas?)

• Several of the items we talked about relate to ongoing projects, and different people volunteered to keep those going:
• Lydia: send out an email to Broken Eggs asking for tips for students on the blog
• Family Matters Panel follow-up (contact Erin)
• Melanie as liaison between students and faculty
• Changing tables
• The future goals are at the end of the notes
• A day in the life project
• Send out specific emails to gather examples
• Email Broken Eggs
• Put on blog?
  

• Projects for the Fall:
• Mentor panel (with faculty and mentors)
• Another panel about feminism in the classroom/what to do when you have trouble in the classroom?