MELA Meeting Minutes 2003 - 2017

IX.

Open Forum

a. eBooks-Krista i. More and more institutions are moving forward with eBooks and right now the provider college is not charging non-college students for eBook use (essentially giving hosted students a free textbook.) As more colleges move forward with eBooks we will need to look for ways to ensure colleges are not being charged an eBook fee by Vital Source or Course Smart since we do not collect textbook fees from hosted students. Christian is hoping to develop a model to which schools are accessed a fee similar to the Blackboard fee. Essentially the State Department would serve as the middle man being responsible for the contracts, fees, data, and vendors. This would allow us to use multiple platforms (i.e. Vital Source/Course Smart) because the State would establish multiple contracts and then the college would just be responsible for establishing the fee we would charge for eBooks, publisher, content, etc. Christian thought this might give us substantial savings if we move to this model. He asked us to meet with our respective financial officers, Deans, and anyone who might be involved in this at the individual institutions to see if there is a way to come together as a consortium. ITS would have to be involved and could possibly be in place by Spring 2013 if the entire consortium is in agreement. Keri asked for Christian to type up a proposal and send to the consortium so that we could discuss the issues at hand with our individual business departments. Keri will review the Boot camp agenda to see if we can further discuss feedback from business office to see how the campuses feel about moving forward. ii. Topics for Boot camp: Keri would like to bring back the Day in the Life of ELC at Boot camp. Topics can include but not limited to: questions about our jobs, how administration does something, things that work really well, etc. Please send topics for discussion via email to Michele by September 20 th so she can gather them prior to book camp. XII. No Shows Due To Other Schools.................................................................... September 6 XIII. 1 st Term Cut-off Date ........................................................................................... September 7 XIV. 1 st Term Last Day to Withdraw.................................................................... September 28 XV. Cut-off Date ........................................................................................................... September 28 XVI. Audit Roster Must be Signed in ET (1 st Term)…………………………… September 14 XVII. Audit Rosters Must Be Signed in ET (full-term)......................................... October 12 XVIII. 1 st Term Grades Due ................................................................................................ October 12 XIX. 2 nd Term Classes Begin .......................................................................................... October 15 XX. Spring Registration Begins................................................................................... October 22 XXI. 2 nd Term Cut-off Date ........................................................................................... November 2 Last Day to Withdraw (full-term) .................................................................. November 2 XXII. 2 nd Term Last Day to Withdraw.................................................................... November 23 Fall 2012 Grades Due ......................................................................................... November 30 XXIII. 2 nd Term Grades Due ............................................................................................. December 7 X. Dates XI. Fall 2012

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Adjournment. The meeting was adjourned at 11:08

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