New Jersey Association for Developmental Education

Meeting Minutes
October 31, 2008

Present: Hal Beder, Marian Eberly, Negar Farakish, Ruth Feigenbaum, Cyndee
Geoffroy, Rosemarie Gorini, Gwen Kane, Elizabeth Marsh, Jay Peterson, David Ross,
Sandi Silverberg, Elizabeth Uptegrove

Marian Eberly called the meeting to order at 10:15 a.m.

• Interim officers identified: President Phyllis Kremen, President-Elect Gwen

Kane, Past-President Angela Moody Robinson, Secretary Jay Peterson,
Treasurer Ruth Feigenbaum

• Constitution & By-Laws Revision

o Constitution Amended

 Article V.B.2: Election and Constitution Committees removed as

standing committees

o By-Laws Amended

 Article IV: Terms of office shall read: “Each newly elected officer
shall take office on the last day of the Annual Conference and
shall serve until the last day of the Annual Conference. The
President-Elect, who is elected annually, shall succeed into the
Presidency position and the President shall succeed into the
Immediate Past-Presidency upon the completion of their one-
year terms. The Treasurer shall be elected biennially in odd
years and the Secretary shall be elected biennially in even
years. In the event of a vacancy of the Executive Council, the
President shall appoint a replacement with the approval of the
Council.”

 Article VI.A.1 removed: item stipulated that one officer must

represent a four-year institution and one a two-year institution.

 Article VI.A.1 added: “The Nominating Committee shall establish

the elections process and timeline.”

• Motion to approve Constitution/By-Laws as amended (1st-Elizabeth Marsh, 2nd-

Liz Uptegrove) passed unanimously.
• NJALL/NJADE Conference – “Post Secondary Transition” March 26-27, 2009
o NJALL will manage logistics and planning; NJADE will be given a block
of sessions on March 27.
 o Interim President-Elect Gwen Kane identified as Conference Committee
chair. Cyndee Geoffroy agreed to co-chair and others volunteered to
help work with NJALL Conference Chair Hal Beder to fill slots and
publicize to NJ NADE members.
 Conference committee will issue call for proposals from its
membership.
 Have breakout sessions/panels for various areas: math, English,
tutoring, writing centers, advising, testing, assessment, etc.
• Motion to accept proposal by NJALL to co-host conference (1st-Elizabeth
Marsh, 2nd-Sandi Silverberg) passed unanimously.
• Membership dues
o Proposed grace period for NJADE membership dues until June 30, 2009.
o Proposed NJADE membership dues to be $10 for the July 1, 2009 – June
30, 2010, fiscal year (FY10).
• Motion to approve membership dues grace period for FY09 and $10
membership dues for FY10 (Sandi Silverberg, Gwen Kane) passed
unanimously.

Next meeting at March NJALL/NJADE conference, March 27, 2009, time TBD.

Motion to adjourn passed unanimously (1st-Marian Eberly, 2nd-Cyndee Geoffroy) at

11:45 a.m.

Minutes respectfully submitted by Jay Peterson