NEXT MEETING: Jan. 17, 2002, 4:00-5:30PM, Berger Gallery, 207 College Hall
All interested faculty, graduate students, and other parties are invited.
AGENDA: Organizational Meeting. The Topics will be:
a) Future direction of CIQR.
b) CIQR's Spring program.
c) Proposal for a Certificate Program in Interpretive and Qualitative Research.
d) CIQR conducted research through some possible grants secured by the University.
e) CIQR's relation to other Campus organization, e.g., The Women and Gender Studies Program, the Diversity Group, the School of Education's hosting of the annual national conference on qualitative research, and to other Pittsuburgh Universities and their programs in qualitative research.
f) Other topics introduced by CIQR committee chairs and membership.
Minutes
We discussed and made decisions concerning a large number of agenda items. The major ones were:
1) Profs. Fred Evans, Philosophy and CIQR Coordinator, Linda Kinnahan, English, Martha Peterson, Dept. of Physician Assistants, and Russ Walsh, Chair of Psychology agreed to be the members of a committee for writing a proposal for a Certificate Program in Interpretive and Qualitative Research.
2) Proposal for CIQR participation in the June, 2002, "Fourteenth Annual Ethnographic and Qualitative Research in Education" (EQRE): CIQR members are considering forming a CIQR panel around the project of CIQR's (and the School of Education's) Prof. Lisa Lopez Lever and her collaborators, "Experiences of Racism and Transgenerational Trauma in One African American Community: Portraiture of Historical Stirrings within a Democratic Context in Response to Witnessing 'Without Sanctuary'." CIQR welcomes other proposals for this event.
3) CIQR's Prof. Lanei Rodemeyer (Philosophy) is gathering information for establishing referral units -- Duquesne faculty with different areas of expertise in qualitative research -- on the CIQR website. Please send her the relevant information at rodemeyer@duq.edu.
4) Members were alerted to possible CIQR Participation in qualitative assessment research on "Exploring Vocation" (in relation to a Lilly Foundation Grant that the Dean/University may be receiving).
5) Participants in the meeting reaffirmed CIQR's desire to collaborate with the Women and Gender Studies Program, the Diversity Group, and other organizations at Duquesne.
6) CIQR members praised the work of former CIQR graduate assistant Ms. Jennifer Glassbrenner and welcomed the new graduate assistant, Ms. Jean Schulte. Like Ms. Glassbrenner, Ms. Schulte is proficient with computers and will be a great help with the CIRQ webpage. Both Ms. Glassbrenner and Ms. Schulte are regular members of CIQR and both are actively engaged in interpretive and qualitative research.
