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MAPPA EDUCATION COMMITTEE NOMINEES

The MAPPA Education Committee is experienced in both the facilities and training business and is made up of a chair, four members from MAPPA facilities personnel, four from the Big 10 Plus Friends Trainers Consortium, and the MAPPA resource library keeper. Each member serves three years. To assure a smooth succession in the future, some members are serving an extra year. The chair is also the MAPPA education representative at APPA.

Membership of the Education Committee includes: 

Chair – Ruthann Manlet, University of Minnesota

Big Ten Representatives:

• Doug Greenwood, University of Minnesota Duluth
• Terry Burke, Ball State University
• Patty Turner, IUPUI
• Mark Nidey, University of Iowa

MAPPA Representatives:

• Kirk Campbell, Carleton College
• Art Chonko, Denison University
• Fred Plant, Valparaiso University
• Kris Ackerbauer, University of Wisconsin Madison

MAPPA Resource Library:

• Missy Nergard, Illinois State University

  The library is housed at Illinois State University. As long as it is there, Missy will be a part of the MAPPA Education Committee. Over the years MAPPA has accumulated an extensive collection of training videos that are available to you to borrow to help train your people. You can browse the library at this site: (www.fac.ilstu.edu/MAPPA/home.aspx).

To nominate someone for the Education Committee please contact Ruthann Manlet.

Nominees are:

• None

Voting for the representative will take place at the Big Ten and Friends Trainers Conference business meeting.

Committee member responsibilities:

• Lists resources on the MAPPA web page as resources for smaller schools. Six university training schedules are on line on the MAPPA web page for you to look at.  You can contact anyone at these sites if you see training there that would help your people: (www.m-appa.org/learning/index.htm).
• Plan the MAPPA annual conference with the Program Chair and two or three people designated by the program chair. The Program chair is the President elect for MAPPA.
• Review library materials.

Projects in process:

• Training Needs Assessment update (see the assessment on the MAPPA page)
• Review video approval process
• Learning Liaison program (identifying training/education contacts at the major institutions in the region)
• Conduct a roundtable at the MAPPA conference

Meetings:

• The committee meets at the annual MAPPA conference and one other time in person. There are two telephone conferences each year.