Pat Sculley Sends - "Call for Assistance"

Call for assistance

Two important changes are being made to NCEA this year.

1. The Class of 1970 has been asked by SCPME to create a planning group to begin preparation at each conference for the following year’s conference. This group will attend the conference sessions to observe and assess the plenary speakers and the senior leader panels. During the breakout sessions, this group will develop recommended themes for the next year’s conference, develop guidelines for plenary speakers and senior leaders, and prepare a list of recommended plenary speakers and senior leaders. This group will meet with the COL Waters, the Director of SCPME, on Thursday morning after the conference to present their recommendations and discuss how the group will assist SCPME in recruiting the speakers and senior leaders. This group will be led by Pat Sculley. We are seeking classmates who will commit to participate in this group on an ongoing basis.
2. The faculty delegates attending the conference this year will be tasked to create two deliverables from the conference. On Monday, all faculty delegates will be organized into one group. They will attend the plenary speaker sessions. During the Monday breakout sessions, presentations will be made from specific attending universities on their honor and character development programs. On Tuesday, a small, pre-selected group of the faculty delegates will begin to outline and write a paper for publication from the conference. The subject of the article will be honor. This group will be led by Gus Lee. The remainder of the faculty delegates will spend Tuesday and Wednesday compiling best practices on all areas related to ethics and honors from all the universities attending the conference. SCPME would like 4 or 5 classmates with experience in group facilitation to assist with this effort. Experience in higher education is a plus but not a requirement. This group will be led by a USMA faculty member to be named.

In the past several years, classmates attending the conference have been allowed to observe the student small group discussions. In many cases this has been counter-productive to establishing the environment needed for the candid and honest exchange in the small group, which is essential to the success of the conference. Therefore, this year, all classmates attending the conference will be employed in the planning group or the faculty group.

If you are available to attend the conference, please contact Pat Sculley at patsculley@q.com and let him know in what capacity you would like to serve. This will be a great opportunity to work with SCPME in improving the conference and assisting them get an early start on the following year’s conference.

SCPME also asks that we continue to recruit universities and delegates for the conference. September is the month in which most schools commit. Please continue your efforts.

If you have any recommendations on faculty members with expertise in ethics and character development and who have been successful publishing their works, please recommend them to Gus Lee at guslee@earthlink.net