SIGMAA on RUME Business Meeting
January9th, 2004
Joint Mathematics Meetings in Phoenix, AZ

1. Meeting Start
   • The Agenda was accepted.
   • There were 41 attendees, which is more than a quorum of 25 including two officers.
   • The January 2003 Business Meeting Minutes were accepted.
2. Coordinator's Report (Marilyn Carlson)
   • About 110 people at Arizona Fall Conference.
   • John and Annie Selden Prize has been accepted by the MAA.
     • Awarded once every two years
     • Restricted to ten years after first published paper.
   • Membership has grown from 468 to 818 paying members (as of the end of 2003). We had 1,430 total members (including those on a two year free Promotion).
   • 740 mailing list members (1/8)
3. Committee Reports
   • Treasurer's Report (Chris Rasmussen)
     • Forthcoming, by March 1^st, 2004
   • Publications Committee (Annie Selden)
     • RCME V is now available!
       • S'RUME is in charge of editing this journal.
       • Cathy Kessel and Michael Keynes are continuing as editors until we can find replacements.
       • Actually Michael K has already stepped down.
     • MAA Notes volume is on the table now. Research to Practice. What is the state of the field?
       • Chris R and Marilyn C will be editing an MAA Notes.
       • Sending invitations for people to write chapters.
       • Aiming to finalize the volume, Making the Connection: Research and Practice in Undergraduate Mathematics, by the end of the year.
   • Guidelines Committee (John Selden)
     • Now have a small number of guidelines on what a mathematics education Ph.D. program should be like. Want to follow-up with a variety of examples of good programs.
     • Organized a panel for the next Joint Mtgs where people will present program examples. These will be posted on the web for public view.
   • Governance Committee (Annie Selden)
     • Next year's MAA Committee on SIGMAAs will have a bunch of changes to the charter.
   • Web Committee (Shandy Hauk)
     • Looking for people to write/improve our pages on Research and Journals.
   • Mentoring Grants (Barbara Edwards)
     • There's a process to apply. Mostly for travel grants. See the web site, http://www.maa.org/sigmaa/arume/index.html.
4. Election of Officers
   • Nominations by Deadline
     • Program Chair
       • Bill Martin (North Dakota State Univ.)*
       • Mickey McDonald (Occidental College)
     • Secretary
       • Eric Hsu (San Francisco State Univ.)*
       • Sergio Loch (Grandview College)
     • * = Winners
   • Nominations from the floor
     • None.
   • There was a proper quorum for the vote of 25 people including two officers.
5. New business
   • Question about the possibility of Proxy voting.
     • E.g. On behalf of a member who was prevented from coming due to an Act of God.
     • What about e-mail voting? Wouldn't it be more representative? Move to a percentage of the membership?
       • Annie says we didn't realize how big we might get. We may need to revisit the quorum.
       • John says the general membership might not be too clear on what RUME is. Trouble with mass e-mail voting.
   • Acceptance of the Guidelines Committee Work?
     • The question arose about voting on the Guidelines Document with a broader vote of all members, rather than just accepting the Guidelines Document Sections by the current procedures: i) Review by Executive Committee; ii) Recommendation of acceptance by the Executive Committee; iii) Vote of its acceptance at our annual business meeting. The suggestion was to consider asking all members to vote on its acceptance, possibly over e-mail.
     • Good questions to consider.
   • The Governance Committee will look into these issues.
   • Some questions from a sibling SIGMAA on how we vote and spend money. (To be discussed further afterwards.)
6. Future Conferences
   • 68 presentations at Oct 2003 + 2 panels + 2 invited speakers
   • About 12 total at Joint Mtgs.
   • John S suggested we take some of the better papers from Oct 2003 to be given in long format at Joint Mtgs.
     • Maybe then distribute the papers at Joint Mtgs.
   • Kathy H: perhaps papers in advance and have a respondent.
     • Also, MAA Mathfest may not be financially viable.
   • Ed D.: Mathfest attendance is actually increasing.
   • Also Ed: Myth is that the organization is engaged in math ed research. We need to publish papers.
     • Perhaps, look at annual conference, publish a list of papers produced by members of the organization. Is it only 10 a year? And we should discuss this. What is the actual paper output published in refereed journals?
   • Annie says we welcome both researchers and those interested.
   • Marilyn says all the talks she's seen in Oct and here had solid theoretical backing.
7. Thanks to the wonderful work done by Marilyn as coordinator and Anne as Program Chair!

Recorded by Eric Hsu, erichsu@math.sfsu.edu
Secretaryof the SIGMAA on RUME
Initial draft, January 12^th,2004
Second draft, January 27^th, 2004