Minutes+10-4-11

OBOH Minutes 4 October 2011 3:45-5pm

1 Djambe offered her congratulations to Amy and Michele on a very successful first OBOH event.

2 Djambe announced that the 2012/13 OBOH committee co-chairs would be Amy, Pardess, and Richard, and that the Curriculum Infusion subcommittee would be led by Pardess, Richard, and Jim.

3 Michele distributed the mission, objectives, and roles of the committee, and requested that committee members review the roles.

4 Report from Curriculum Infusion committee (Pardess): - The committee is looking into ways to make the Blackboard site more easily accessible to faculty. One idea was to have it automatically listed on everyone’s course list; another was to allow open enrollment. - Brian Knetl is working with the committee to try to organize some curriculum infusion workshops for adjunct faculty - There was a discussion about whether or not to include two years’ of material on Blackboard, but concerns were raised about the possibility of confusion. - Tonya suggested the use of the wiki for committee work in progress. Michele sent out invitations.

5 Events (Michele) - The first event had 175 attendants and was recorded for archives. - Shante’ agreed to give welcoming remarks at the next event, the authors’ roundtable. The authors’ books will be available at the event. - The online book discussion has stalled, so we may want to do this in-person next time

6 //The Help// - 2012/13 - Themes identified: civil rights; peer pressure; gender roles; dialect(southern); femail submission; child rearing; domestic (adj. vs. noun); social classes; southern culture; rules & boundaries; women & education (higher ed); family; women’s health; volunteerism; power & control; parent/child relations; fashion; history; courtship - Event possibilities: costume party; toilet seat art contest; pie eating contest/tasting; afternoon tea; bridge; scavenger hunt; movie; Myrlie Evers-Williams; //The Help// monologues; Jesse Jackson; cooking like Minny; community ed. Cooking classes; sewing; gospel music; southern foodways alliance; SPLC Morris Dees; journalism; “table of brotherhood”