Attendees | Discussion

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Attendees:

NAME	INSTITUTION
Al Pheley	Albion College
Mike Unsworth	Michigan State University
Dennis Moore	Canadian Consulate General - Detroit

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Discussion:

• Date -- March 31, 2008
• Venue -- Baldwin Hall
• General items (see also Planners Information):
  • An informal tradition is the "night before" dinner at a local restaurant.
  • We asked for a buffet. The registration form will have a check for special dietary needs.
  • In the registration area, there should be tables for handouts and book displays.
  • Al will try to get President Randall to give the welcome and perhaps be at the luncheon
• Registration fee: $10 for academics. Students will not have to pay a fee. Did we decide about students paying for lunch?
• Student participation:
  • Student coordinator -- Al will try to enlist a competent student to help handle logistics
  • Student introduction to session topics -- the student should give a short (3 minute), knowledgeable, and opinionated intro.
• Background Information for the Sessions -- this year we'll experiment by providing some online? readings for the session topics. Dennis suggested that we incorporate connect2canada information. We didn't determine who was going to do it.
• Attendance -- In the past, the Roundtable has averaged 30-40 academics. Students will probably boost the numbers to 90.
• Publicity --
  • Mike will merge Bruce Way's mailing list into the one held at MSU.
  • Dennis will provide some special publicity to the University of Windsor and Bowling Green State University.
  • Al will used the Great Lakes College Association network.
  • Al will try to interest the UM Ford Policy Center
• Speakers -- Responsibility of Albion College. Some of the themes we discussed were population diversity caused by immigration and health policy. Dennis can help identify speakers and may be able to get targeted funds for a speaker. Idea -- an expensive but interesting speaker would be Gerry Boychuk of the University of Waterloo to compare health care in the U.S. and Canada.
• Funding -- the host institution has been responsible for the bulk of the costs but other institutions have helped out. MSU can contributed about $1000 (pending the final form our program enhancement grant) .The Consulate General would seriously consider a request for funding. Its fiscal year ends on March 31.
• Session Topics -- As in the past, these topics will be listed on the registration form. The final selection will be based on the interest indicated by the registrants' preferences. The registration form will provide space for registrants to indicate aspects of the topics. The sessions will last an hour.

 

Past topics can be see at: http://mcsrt.org/annual/planning/topics.htm