Coordinating Group Objectives
- *Write a mission statement;
- *Write a charter;
- Form an executive board or steering committee composed of people from the nine institutions;
- Profile the participants according to their skill sets;
- Survey the current participants about what they already know or have—potential technologies for the network, test data sets, model partnerships;
- Request that proposals be sent to the executive board for future workshops;
- Consider a monthly Saturday lecture series that might include a webinar for a fee;
- **Identify key people who were not at the conference and invite them to join our network;
- Establish an agreement among the universities and industrial partners to create a mechanism that will address intellectual property rights;
- **Build a website that eventually can feature a syllabus bank, certificate programs, degree programs, best practices, links to other sites, and peer mentoring to facilitate cross-fertilization;
- Develop a summer workshop or institute that brings together faculty, agency staff, industrial experts, and community college partners and is open to students at all levels;
- Develop a set of resources that support research efforts, such as participant registries, research sites, videos, texts, and other instruments that encourage research;
- Work to bring community partners into the network;
- *Create a Webex call system
- *Create a listserv
- **Create a research group for a PICORI pilot study to investigate the database
- *Set Fall 2014 I-70 Conference dates and place.
*Achieved
*Underway