SIGMAA on RUME Business Meeting
January 17th, 2003
Baltimore, MD

1. Meeting Start
   
• The Agenda was accepted without further newbusiness.
• There were 42 attendees, which is more than aquorum of 25 including two officers.
• The July Business Meeting Minutes were accepted.
2. Coordinator's Report (Marilyn Carlson)
   • Membership has grown from 330 to 468 payingmembers. We had 880 nonpaying members on a two year free promotion. 1348total members.
   • The ExxonMobil grant extension was approved (upuntil 5/31/04)
   • We collaborated with the MER organization in aResearch to Practice Panel Discussion. This was followed by NaomiFisher inviting individuals from both organizations to write shortarticles that focus on Research to Practice for a special issue of theMER newsletter.
     
   • MAA plans to increase their support of theSIGMAAs
     • An annual newsletter will be distributed ifthe organization takes the leadership role in putting together thenewsletter.
   • As of January 6th, we are the largest SIGMAA
   • SIGMAA on Business, 151 paid member/316 total
   • SIGMAA on Environmental Mathematics, 75 paid
   • SIGMAA on History of Math, 272/638
   • SIGMAA on Statistics Education 311/456
   • Our research conference will be in Phoenix,October 23-26, 2003 (see webpage for more details).
     
3. Treasurer's Report
   • Given by Marilyn for Chris Rasmussen
   • We're in good shape: we had $37,000 coming intothis year.
     
   • The ExxonMobil extension gave us $27000;
     
   • We received dues of $10 per member, so wecollected $13,553.
     
   • This is more than $10/member as some peoplepaid in advance
   • The budget was accepted.
4. Committee Reports
   • Governance Committee (Annie Selden)
     • The GC added conference committee to By-Laws
     • The GC removed references to Mathfest,instead referring to our conference
     • The GC edited the sentence "at least twoofficers" was edited to clarify
   • Announcement of Mentoring Grant, Call forProposals (Barbara Edwards)
     • We have money and we need more applicationsfor the Mentoring Grant
     • The Mentoring Grant pays for travel tomeeting, maybe transcription of tapes.
       
     • The awards are $500-$2000 typically, even upto $4000
     • People haven't been using all their money,either.
   • Guidelines Committee update (John Selden)
     • They are working on guidelines fordoctorates in math departments for RUME
     • It will take about a month to finish;another month for membership review
     • They will be posted to our LISTSERV
     • They are aware of AMTE guidelines and havegone to their meeting;
       
     • AMTE guidelines are much broader in scope.
   • Web Committee (Shandy Hauk)
     • Updates to the MAA web site are very slow
     • We may host the pages at our own serversomeday soon. We'll be linked from the official MAA pages.
       
     • We are considering getting a nicer URL(www.sigmaaonrume.com?)
       
     • Our Journals page needs some more feedbackon what the top journals are
     • This web page gets cited for tenuredecision purposes!
     • JRME, Ed Studies, RCME are top ones forRUME, according to us
     • We need more input.
       
   • Newsletter Committee
   • No update was available.
     
   • Membership Committee
     • The MC is working on ways to expand ourcircle to RUME researchers
     • One idea: go through the printed programs ofAERA, PME and Joint Meetings to solicit researchers in RUME. We want totake the initiative to get people from these other groups to come toour conferences, with broader membership as a consequence.
       
   • Publications Committee
     • The PC talked about ongoing need to ramp upquantity and quality
     • We've taken over RCME from CRUME.
     • Research to Practice options were discussed.The idea is to package research for practitioners in published form.
       
     • There is precedent: MAA Notes on Functionsvolume from 10 or 12 years ago; We'd like to update this idea, and coverother areas: proof, college algebra, calculus, etc.
       • Ed Dubinsky noted that applying researchto practice is important. But, if research gets applied to practice,then this should be studied in a research setting. This should bepublished in reviewed research journals, not in MAA Notes, which is notas respected as journals. Ed said that he refuses all offers to writechapters for edited volumes because he believes we need to focus onsubmitting articles to our research journals.
         
       • Annie Selden disagrees; we need to reachmath departments and teachers who are interested but don't read theresearch outlets. Untenured professors should do research. Others shoulddo the expository work.
     • Kathy Heid suggested that whenever wesubmit a research article, we consider writing an expository version ofthe article for other audiences, such as college teachers andmathematicians.
       
     • Anne Brown mentioned that the AmericanMathematical Monthly publishes expository articles on mathematicseducation.  She and Kathy Heid are the members of the Monthlyeditorial board who are responsible for screening submissions inmathematics education and suggesting reviewers.
       
     • Norma Presmeg mentioned that journals likeEd Studies do special issues; Ed D claimed that invited articles inspecial issues often do not receive rigorous reviews and thus tend tobe of low quality.
       
5. Election of Officers
   • Nominations by Deadline
     • Chris Rasmussen for Treasurer
     • Barbara Edwards for Coordinator-Elect
       
   • Nominations from the floor
   • Draga Vidakovic for Organizational Director
   • Draga Vidakovic and Barbara Edwards introducedthemselves.
   • There was a proper quorum for the vote.
     
   • Because there was no contested office, thenominees were automatically elected. 
6. Plans for 2003 SIGMAA on RUME Research Conference inPhoenix
   
• Plans are proceeding apace.
  
• The conference web page is at http://www.cs.gsu.edu/~matdnv/rume2003/rume2003_prel.html
  
7. Farewell Comments from Annie, outgoing PastCoordinator
   • She's seen it grow over time in "smoke-filledmeetings" from ARUME, to SIGMAA on RUME.
   • In her time she's seen three sets of bylaws orrevisions, successively improving our foundation.
   • She's seen lots of great committee work, lots ofgreat volunteer work.
   • Annie gave thanks to Ed Dubinsky for the pushand the ExxonMobil grant from the opening days
8. New business
   • None from floor
   • All agreed that Rina Zaksis gave a great talk
   • Suggestions from floor for future speakers
     • David Tall
     • Tommy Dreyfus
     • Jean-Luc Dorier
     • Anna Sfard
     • Patrick Thompson
9. Door Prize (Harel Barzilai wins an RCME volume)

Recorded by Eric Hsu, erichsu@math.sfsu.edu
Secretary of the SIGMAA on RUME
First circulated March 8th, 2003
Revised twice on March 9th, 2003


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