2/4 Advisory Committee Minutes (Communication)
In attendance: Bill Menezes, Sharon Fantl, Jackie Hooper, Jeremy Robarge, Susie Ericon-West, Cheryl Perry, Michael Soldate, Kathleen Maceda, Maureen Ahern, Zachie Valentine, Lisa Kuneman- facilitator
Develop a Communication Plan:
Look at how to best use media: (see graphic- below)
Coordination:
• Important to keep everyone who wants to be involved up to date
• Information needs to be accessible, manageable (can’t rely on emails to make important connections)
• How does ‘What Sustains Us?’ overlap with other campus based activity?
Work with evaluation team, Thorne and similar campus resources. Idea for Cohen Center- How people sustain in times of trauma? Every year they do an art based exploration
Continuity re: information, priorities and sustained effort is very important
Possible involvement in future campus-wide events?
ISP has used the term in discussion of Integrated Outcomes, there may be room for confusion and/or combined effort re: communication. Also, 33% of classes are ISP classes
Faculty/ Student Connections:
• Explore shared goals/ parallel developments with Integrated Studies Program (meeting described below).
• Talk to Andy Robinson (VP Student Affairs) How to best be effective? and Mary McEntee (community service coord.)
Keene Plan Mayor can be very supportive, has planned involvement with Arts Alive
Current Status/ Existing Information There is a good deal that is known about the grant, strategic and casual communication is possible with what’s known.
Develop a Timeline
Unknowns make timeline for implementation unclear: What, if anything, should or can happen during grant interim period? Will energy be lost? Can word of mouth sustain it? Should the Advisory Committee continue to meet in the interim?
Either way, getting started on materials and continuing to build communication should happen now.
With application outcome unclear, what’s possible or likely with or without CCIG? Probably will continue in some form. How will this be discovered and defined?
Discuss the generation of graphic images, printed matter and other media
Logo and other design- Would students in Graphic Design Dept have an interest in this piece? Bob Kostic, Dept Chair)
Might be potential for 2 Logos: one for CCIG and one for “What Sustains Us” as it might exist otherwise
Other?
Discuss generation of copy-
words used in written information for dissemination
Have begun to solicit ideas re: attention grabbing, pithy phrases that are easy to repeat
Grant language may be useful- perhaps grant writers can help with this?
What is needed to complete this task?
Pithy Comments
Active, involve the reader immediately, curiosity inducing, enduring questions, starts a dialog, emphasizes multidisciplinary work, context will be important: can change meaning, can be an accompanying image.
If you can’t imagine it, you can’t do it.
In good times and challenging times.
What makes life worth living?
What gets you up in the morning?
What keeps you going?
The question is the purpose
Sustainability- it’s more than recycling (keep recycling!)
The wheels of creativity.
Got Art?
Sustain?
Who Needs Art?
Creative discovery through artisitic engagement.
From comments on blog:
What if? isn’t possible without it
Community Connections-Creative Collisions
The Food We Eat
What makes us whole?
When the going gets tough, what makes one get back up/keep going/try again?
What feeds one’s soul?
The arts …make our country worth defending
What sustains us as individuals? as professionals? as citizens?
Sustaining Sustenance: Our Needs and Our Responsibilities
Next Steps
Clarify Timeline
Will require homework (as yet undefined)
Next Meeting
ISP - a small meeting will be scheduled with Anne Rancourt, Peter Nielsen and Gordon Leversee.
Update: Dan, Bill, and Sharon are in the midst of scheduling this meeting. Lisa will schedule CCIG Communication Coordination meeting to follow as soon as possible after meeting with ISP.
