California University of Pennsylvania
CETP-PA Committee Meeting
20 February 2003
In Attendance:
Faculty: Cignetti, Zisk,
Boehm and Bonari
Students: Nicole Booze,
Jackie Jeffers, Meghan Sweeney, and Courtney Rodgers
Reason for Missing: Hider
meeting with Technology students. DeNardo is out for medical leave. Alyssa and
Brandi were at a student teaching meeting.
Chairmen: Dr.
Cignetti
Call to order:
the meeting was called to order at 11:00a.m.
Harrisburg Visit: There were some recommendations
made at the meeting from the visits that were made to the individual centers.
There needs to be more minorities recruited. There are hardly any in the CETP
scholar groups. Another suggestion was made about the getting more K-12
committee members from the outside community. We only have two so anyone who
has suggestions or nominations please make them known. Dr. Cignetti was also
told that we need more workshops for collaborate teachers. The scholars need to be more networked together
was another suggestion. For the CETP course they want the standards on the
syllabuses. We must connect our college to community colleges in are area. Each
college is to make a strategic plan. Dr. Cignetti passed around the strategic
plan to get more minorities in the CETP program. We are also to start tracking
the students who are taking and who have taken CETP courses.
Dean Jones: She
is working on getting CETP endorsement written somewhere on the transcript.
Westinghouse: The date has been set for June 17, 18, and
19, 2003. The topic this year will
be environmental chemistry. There is going to be training for the college students so we know how to work with the
different challenges and protocols. They
are going to take a trip to the power plant. The students will be paid. They are asking for volunteer students to
stay over with them.
Science Olympiad:
Zisk informed us of how the Science Olympiad is coming. The date is set for March 21, 2003. Anyone who wants to volunteer
would greatly be appreciated. It
would be a great experience. There are 23 different events. They compete as teams and they can get metals.
This event runs from 9:00-3:00. He going through the events that he needed
volunteers for. He needs a supervisor for the
balloon race along with the egg drop. Nicole volunteered for the egg drop event. Meghan is going to supervise
the chemistry event. Courtney and Jackie are
working with Dr. Thumbser. Alyssa will be working with Dr. Cignetti will the experimental design project. All the
students present gave Dr. Zisk our email addresses.
Meetings: The
next meetings will be held on March 20th and April 24th.
Next Conference:
The next conference will be at Edinboro
University August 13, 14, 15, 16.
Closing Remarks:
Cignetti asked if anyone else had anything to say. There were no more questions.
Next Meeting: The next meeting will be March 20, 2003 at 11:00a.m.in
Keystone 423.
The meeting
adjourned at 11:55 a.m.
Submitted,
Nicole L. Booze,
Recorder