Steering Committee Update: June 30, 2010

• The Steering Committee approved the budget outline developed by Susan Palmer and Alan Boyd.
• The Steering Committee made further plans to ensure that paperwork and other basic necessities are worked out when Catalina Oyler begins in July.
• The Steering Committee reviewed the campus grant review committee progress to date. We reminded ourselves that faculty stipends are to be paid 50% at the time of the award and 50% when the final report is complete.
• Susan Palmer discussed the issue of intellectual property and rights for materials developed through the Mellon grant. Susan noted that, as part of the Mellon grant, the materials should at some point be made public.