Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

Brief summary of minutes of annual meeting:

Impact Writing Workshop

Sara Delheimer, Impact Writer for Multistate Research Project presented a workshop on writing strong impact statements.  The workshop lasted from 9:00 am – 11:30 am.

Welcome and Introductions

Meeting called in session at 1:00 pm by Chair Joan Ellis.  All attendees introduced themselves.

Approval of 2015 meeting minutes

Melody LeHew moved to approve the minutes.  Jana Hawley seconded.  Minutes were approved as submitted.

Announcements

Joan Ellis announced that she will be retiring in May from Washington State University.

Meeting registration cost was announced and individual payment schedule calculated (room rental divided by number of members attending). Vice-Chair Jana Hawley made arrangements for paying the room rental fee. The Conference fee was $51.45 per attending member. Receipts were disbursed.

Leadership

Discussion was held in regards to Joan Ellis retiring and not completing her two year term as president.  It was decided that each person on the executive leadership team would move up one spot from their current position, and a new secretary was elected for the next year. Elena Karpova was elected secretary.

Leadership for the next three years includes:

2017-2018: Chair – Executive leadership: Chair, Jana Hawley; Vice-Chair, Scarlett Wesley; Secretary, Elena Karpova; Sonali Diddi, Information Officer.
2018-2019: Executive leadership: Chair—Jana Hawley: Vice-Chair, Scarlett Wesley; Secretary, Elena Karpova; Information officer TBD.

2019-2020: Executive leadership: Chair—Scarlett Wesley: Vice-Chair, Elena Karpova; Secretary (TBD—must elect a new secretary). Other: information manager TBD

The next election will be held at the 2017 annual meeting to elect a new information officer.  A new secretary will be elected in 2018. 

Old Business - Reports/Issues

Updates were provided regarding NCCC065 sponsored initiatives for 2016-2017

Members discussed how different universities evaluate rigor in research.  Membership agreed that in future reporting that the term impact should be used in place of the term rigor in NCCC065 reporting.

Missy Bye discussed the need to put together a job description for the Executive Leadership positions of Chair, Vice-Chair, and Secretary.

The membership decided to delete the existing NCCC065 Linkedin account because of underuse.

The research session proposed at the last meeting focusing on undergraduate research was submitted to ACRA and was successfully delivered. The special topics session was titled:  Best Practices for Involving Undergraduates in Research.

Jana Hawley agreed to take ownership of creating a follow-up assessment for the forthcoming ITAA session titled The Nuances of Federal Grant Writing which also include key note speaker, Dr. Robbin Shoemaker.  This assessment will help to provide quantifiable data for impacts in the future.

New Business – Reports/Issues/Plans

Missy Bye provided an NCRA Administrator report to the group.  There was no news from NIMSS to report. She discussed having a responsibility document for the executive leadership offices to help facilitate a smoother transfer of leadership. Joan Ellis agreed to create a document describing the responsibilities of each office.

To better facilitate information sharing among members, Sonali Diddi agreed to organize a Dropbox for all NCCC065 documents

A discussion was held regarding the need for formal station reports as a committee requirement.  Missy Bye emailed Chris Hamilton to enquire about Station Report obligation.  The conclusion was that as a committee, we must submit annual committee reports, but we are only required to submit what we do as a group and not what is happening at our individual universities. The group agreed beginning next year to title individual reporting ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND IMPACTS Report. This will be a report submitted individually by members that directly relates to our objectives.  We also agreed that we would spend 3-5 minutes per member at our next meeting giving a trend report to keep updated about what is going on at our respective universities.

The NCCC065 renewal from last year was approved. Two new members joined the group this year, Srikant Manchiraju, Florida State University and JuYoung Lee, Mississippi State University.

The membership discussed the Grand Challenges included in our renewal proposal:

1. Climate Change
2. Demographic driven marketplace
3. Innovation & technology change

There was discussion about implementing sub-groups within each grand challenge.  The following are the main points from this discussion:

• Melody brought up should climate change really be the WHY and sustainable production & consumption be the focus instead – the effect sustainable consumption and production will have on climate change might be a better direction
• Really all three grand challenges can fit under sustainable production & consumption
• Rename climate change grand challenge to SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION & PRODUCTION
• Agreed to create sub groups around these grand challenges
• Research clusters will be made up of anyone that is interested in these topics – at ITAA in FL we could have individual cluster meetings around all 3
• Focus on research clusters (how we are different than ESRAP) – bringing together people into research clusters to foster scholarship and outreach around sustainable consumption and production around the lens of wellbeing.
• We will call the leaders of these groups CLUSTER COORDINATOR
• CLUSTER COORDINATOR description provide report for annual report; create a benefit statement; cluster description; member group; bring in researchers from other disciplines (inter-disciplinary)
• Benefits of cluster – collaboration, grants, funding, research groups, networking, and results will be research impacts that promote human wellbeing. Each benefit statement may evolve over time, according to the members of the groups.
• SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION & PRODUCTION – Cluster Coordinator are Melody & Sonali
• DEMOGRAPHIC DRIVEN MARKETPLACE – Cluster Coordinator are Scarlett & Pam (possibly add Andy and Jo)
• INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY CHANGE – Cluster Coordinator are JuanJuan & Sri

Agreed to submit an IMPACT STATEMENT Special Topics with workshop format at ITAA for 2017.

• Jana and Elena will co-chair this proposal
• Panel will be made up of cluster coordinators
• Workshop to teach people how to write impact statements
• Practice writing impact statements for own research
• Publicly introduce these clusters to attendees
• Encourage clusters to organically meet depending on how the special topics session goes – Art of Hosting Style

Agreed to submit a GRAND CHALLEGE Special Topics at ITAA for 2017.

• Melody, Sonali, Scarlett, Pam, JuanJuan, & Sri will work on this proposal.
• Newsletter article to inform people about the clusters to encourage attendance – Jana
• Identifying cluster coordinators and creating clusters will be a result of this special topics session

Other New Business

The 2017 meeting will be held in meeting Bentonville, Arkansas dates are TBD. Scarlett Wesley, Vice Chair, will make arrangements. 

Action Items

• Jana Hawley and Elena Karpova will submit a special topics Impact Statement Writing session to ITAA 2017
• Melody LeHew, Sonali Diddi, Scarlett Wesley, Pam Norum, JuanJuan Wu, & Srikant Manchiraju will submit a Grand Challenge – Climate Change, Demographic Driven Marketplace, and Innovation & Technology special topics session to ITAA 2017

Business meeting was adjourned at 12:00 pm on Saturday, October 8^th.

NCCC065 Accomplishments for 2015-2016 reporting year:

1. Addressing Object #1:

At the 2016 American Collegiate Retailing Association annual meeting, NCCC065 members JuanJuan Wu and Brenda Sternquist hosted a panel discussion titled “Best Practices in Undergraduate Research”.  The intended outcomes of this panel were:

1. Identify what types of social change in the marketplace research opportunities provide mutual advantages for faculty and students.
2. Determine qualifications needed for undergraduate researchers in general.
3. Creating mechanisms for determining authorship and/or acknowledgement for contributions to research projects addressing social change in the market place.
4. Identifying internal and external sources of funding including corporate support for research projects addressing social change in the market place.

Potential impacts of this panel discussion include establishment of new resources to aid existing researchers in furthering research outputs and the development of new researchers to help address issues surrounding social change in the marketplace.

1. Addressing Objective #1:

A team of NCCC065 members; Jana Hawley, Melody Lehew, Sonali Diddi and Joan Ellis, along with colleague Jung Ha-Brookshire, submitted the following proposal to NSF:  EAGER Germination: Applying Constructivist Theory and Participatory Engagement through Research Interest Groups to Conceive and Implement Transformational Ideas

The purpose of this proposal was to facilitate the creation of collaborative, multidisciplinary and multi-institutional research teams to help address issues of social change in the market place.  The proposal was not funded.

1. Addressing Objective #2:

A proposal for a panel discussion at the 2016 International Textile and Apparel Association Annual meeting was submitted by members Jana Hawley and Joan Ellis and was accepted for presentation in November 2016.  The title of the accepted panel was The Nuances of Federal Grant Writing and featured the key note speaker, Dr. Robbin Shoemaker, National Program Leader for Economics, National Institute of Food and Agriculture, United States Department of Agriculture