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Executive Meeting Minutes 2019

(Approved March 7, 2020)

October 21, 2019 - 7:00 am
Location: Science Building 2603

In attendance: TJ Hitchmann (Representative), Melissa Lindsey (Vice Chair Elect), Susan Crook (Candidate for Vice Chair Elect), Mitch Keller (Webmaster/Information Director), Chris Spicer (Vice Chair), Carol Schumacher (VP of MAA), Ruth Berger (Competition Coordinator), Lucas Bennet (Treasurer), Angie Kohlhaas (Chair), Matt Rissler (Liaison Coordinator).

  1. Approve the minutes from the Fall 2018 Executive Meeting and Spring 2019 Executive Committee Meeting
    1. Fall Meeting Minutes-Amend to fix Chris' title to Vice Chair Elect. Approved by voice vote unanimously.
    2. Spring Meeting Minutes-Amend titles to fix. Approved by voice vote.
  2. Welcome to Visitors
    1. Vice-Chair Elect Candidates: Steve Butler and Susan Crook
    2. MAA representative: Carol Schumacher
  3. Reminder to update Operational Plans (Angie Kohlhaas)
    1. Discussion of who should introduce the speaker. Vice-Chair is in charge of introducing or finding an introducer.
    2. Add SectionNExT to Vice Chair Elect plan.
    3. Discussion of how it works in Ohio Section from Carol. Plans are the good.
  4. Report from MathFest Section Officers' Meeting (Melissa Lindsey)
    1. Rotation of Speakers is changing to provide more speakers from AWM and NAM
    2. Carol-Leaving JMM lets MAA focus resources on the "front-lines of teaching", and section level while defending sectional identity and uniqueness.
    3. Tondeur Career Initiatives- Need students for these, do we need students? Funds might be able to be used at other events, such as MUMS.
    4. Discussion of decoupling location and Vice-Chair Elect, but that may require another person to planning process.
  5. Report on Mathematics Competition (Ruth Berger)
    1. 24 teams from 12 institutions. Won by University of Iowa. It was a no travel competition. Mixed results on whether continuing no travel is a good thing.
    2. Possible Julia Robinson Festival as pre-competition activity.
  6. Report from Treasurer (Lucas Bennet)
    1. Ended with $12000, but subvention wasn't in yet.
    2. about $7000-7500 is for the competition- maybe pay for lunch
  7. Website overhaul (Mitch Keller)
    1. There is a plan coming for helping with website redesign from National.
    2. Possible pieces- Abstract Submission, Registration PayPal is a pain and linked to Jonas.
    3. Carol - Is it possible to hire someone to refactor the website?
    4. Newsletter? Do we need to restart it? Recent ones didn't have much content.
  8. Remarks by MAA representative: Carol Schumacher
  9. Other new business: Angie is in the discussion about Math Pathways.

Respectfully submitted,
Matt Rissler
Acting IA MAA Section Secretary