In Attendance

• Pooja Agarwal
• Eva Bach
• Kelly Baluta
• Mindy Brown
• Ande Croll
• Julie Dowling
• Neal Groothuis
• Carolyn Johnson
• Brandon Schlesinger

Excused

• Matt Knisley
• Scott Swanson

Unexcused

• Paul Strasma
• Kevin Colby

Meeting was called to order at 20:07 CDT.

There were no action items.

Alumni weekend wrap-up: Pooja noted that the 2001 reunion went well. Ande spoke about the 1996 reunion; despite the last-minute venue change, it was successful as well. The 1991 event was small, though it drew several IMSA staff members as well as alumni. Eva noted that the 1996 turnout was higher than expected because of last-minute RSVPs.

Roles for the upcoming year (* indicates point person):

Reunions

Mindy

IMSAlum

Eva

Regional and Interest Clubs

Kevin*

Mindy

Eva

Matthew

Intersession

Pooja*

Mindy

Julie

Matthew

Student Council Liason/Current Student Outreach

Brandon

Admissions Liason

Kevin

Julie

Eva

Matthew

Lumen

Matthew

IMSA20

Brandon

Kevin

Eva

Technology Infrastructure

Neal

Scott

College Counseling

Eva

Fundraising

Brandon

Kelly gave her budget report. She noted that the following items are the largest allocations in the IAA budget:

• reunion cost coverage
• regional clubs (reallocated to server infrastructure last year)
• marketing for the reunions
• IMSALum

(For details, see the 2005–2006 budget/expense report—valid through Alumni Day.)

Ande gave a brief exhortation to give to the IMSAFund and get the donation numbers up.

Neal gave an update on the status of the new server and domain. The parts for the new server are being collected; a physical location for it in the Advancement office at IMSA will be determined soon. We should also investigate a way of transferring ownership of the imsaalumni.* domains from Neal to the IAA proper to ensure that the same thing does not happen with them that happened with iaa.org.

Ande gave a brief explanation of IMSA20. She mentioned SPM's suggestion at the faculty/staff lunch that alumni should write a letter to the taxpayers of Illinois thanking them for their support, and suggested that the IAA would be the appropriate body to do so. Carolyn noted that the IAA could contribute to the silent auction as a way to get our name out. Several Cabinet members expressed agreement; Kelly noted that we will be keeping IMSA20 in mind as the budget is developed.

The meeting was adjourned at 21:05 CDT.