Read and approved minutes from previous meeting w/ a few corrections

Reviewed sessions in Madison & Miami

Sacremento sessions & crucial topics

• Two industrial forums for Sacramento (in conjunction w/ committee on prof concerns):
  • Chuck DeLeone will organize a session on employment opportunities for BS students (statistics, kinds of jobs, etc.) Joe Finn at Sonoma State and the Fresno State efforts & web site would be good resources.
  • Mark McKinnon will organize a cracker barrel w/ industrial physicists & HR people about helping students find and prepare for industrial employment.
• Gary White will organize a session on involving undergraduates in research
• Karen Cummings will organize a session reporting on the results of the calculus-based physics conference in September.
  • We discussed looking at content of the introductory course for non-majors. Ongoing efforts of Joe Reddish & Bob Fuller were mentioned.
• Steve Turley will organize a session on First Year issues for physics students. This could naturally include ideas for helping women & minorities as well.
• Ray Bernstein will be a liaison between our committee and the APS division of beams for the Sacramento meeting.
• We discussed piggy backing on the Gordon Conference on Nonlinear Dynamics and having an AAPT session on this topic. Juan Burciaga will organize it.

Topics postponed for later comsideration

• session on match between GRE, UG curriculum, & grad school for a future meeting
• TA training will be addressed later. It is also a concerning of the graduate committee.
• Effective teaching of large classes will be addressed later.
• College teacher preparation & development will be discussed later. .It is also a concern of the graduate committee.

The Alburquerque meeting

• The National Society of Hispanic Physicists has an interest in co-hosting the Albuquerque meeting.
• Ideas for Albuquerque theme: Physics & Society, Einstein's Physics, Computational Physics, Worlds of Physics.

Ken Krane will organize an invited session for Miami on topics from the SPIN-UP report

Ken Krane is chairing a task force on Resources for University/College teachers. We discussed how we might help w/ ideas and/or reviewers. One idea was having working groups w/ different physics specialties that might contribute.

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