Metropolitan Affairs Committee
Meeting Minutes
Thursday, September 27, 2007
School of Social Work Conference Room
Present:
Lorraine Blackman, Jeffrey Crabtree, Charles R. Feldhaus, José R. Rosario,
Sandra Petronio (TRIP), Stephan Viehweg
(TRIP), Amy Conrad Warner
Lorraine
Blackman called meeting to order, minutes from previous meeting were approved
by consensus, members introduced themselves, and José Rosario agreed to record
the minutes. Discussion on agenda items proceeded as follows:
1. Bob Bringle/Sandra Petronio
report on Summer 2007 discussion to identify areas of overlap between TRIP and
civic engagement as well as identity ways to cultivate inventory to enhance
TRIP’s goal of identifying faculty scholars. This item was tabled since Sandra Petronio and Bob Bringle were not able to meet.
2. Update on Fall 2007 TRIP
activities and Committee Affairs Committee role in their implementation. Sandra
Petronio and Steve Viehweg
briefed the committee on five strands of activity:
2.1. Getting the word out. This
has consisted mainly of building a website that is ready to go live hopefully
by Oct. 15th. There has been other publicity through advertisements
and other means to disseminate information about TRIP to campus-wide community,
as well as to external constituencies.
2.2. Establishing criteria for
Translational Scholarship. In identifying translational scholars, TRIP will
rely primarily on a process that will allow faculty to self-select themselves
on a specified set of criteria: scholar is generating research that is
translated; scholar has been identified by others as having successfully
translated their work into practice; and scholars who have translated other
research into practice.
2.3. Developing TRIP programs.
There are currently a number of committees working on various programs:
Building Alliances; Campus Forum on Meaning of Translation for Disciplines;
Inside Out Program; Translational Scholar Debut Program; National Dialogue; and
Transfer of Technology. The thrust behind these programs, which will be
described at length on the project’s website, is to make IUPUI the nation’s
leading university in translational research. A current need is to staff these committees with
faculty interested in developing these programs. It was suggested that
TRIP consider tapping into the list of scholars on campus it has already
identified as translational scholars—since the idea is to develop a network or
a community of faculty on campus with interest in translational research.
2.4. Program launch. The current
plan is to launch the program during the up-coming IU Celebration luncheon on
October 15 to be held at University Place Conference Center. On the agenda will
be a panel discussion on translational scholarship. Committee members attending
the event were invited to participate and support the event by recruiting
invitees and serve as table hosts.
2.5. Articulation with Faculty
Council, Civic Engagement Program, Solution Center, CTSA, Center of Excellence.
Connecting and articulating with other programs on campus is ongoing, and it is
expected that the website will contribute significantly to this process.
In terms of how the Metropolitan Affairs Committee could
assist with development and implementation of TRIP, the discussion focused for
the most part on the active role committee members could possibly play in
program committees and on spearheading or leading particular efforts, such as
the anticipated campus forums and national conference dialogue. Members agreed
to doing what they can to support the effort in these
and other ways.
Next meeting: Thursday, October
25, 2007, 2:00-3:30 p.m., Conference Room 226, Coleman Hall. Host: Jeffrey
Crabtree, Health and Rehabilitation Sciences. Contact: (317) 274-5368, jlcrabtr@iupui.edu.
Submitted:
José R.
Rosario
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