(in order introduced) Kevin Charlwood, Lyn Miller, David Kung (new), Heather Ames Lewis, Chawne Kimber, Dov Chelst, Sharon Frechette, Emil Volcheck, John ("ohmigod I can't believe I'm still in Virginia") Kuchenbrod

We welcomed David Kung to join the editorial board, after discussing the duties with him.

Kevin expressed concern that attendance at the poster session was falling in recent years. We discussed competing events, including other poster sessions sponsored by AWM and ARUME. Depending on this year's attendance, he'll decide whether to hold a session at the San Diego meetings. We should point out Nick Higham's article on preparing a poster in future poster session announcements. We could advertise by putting a flyer in each registration packet. With the better market, there seems to be less demand by job seekers for posters.

Heather will organize the town meeting in 2002.

The panel on Keeping Active in Research had over 60 in attendance.

Subscribers to the Concerns are down from 1289 a year ago to 1160.

We discuss what panels we might have in San Diego. Dave thinks our focus has drifted. We settle on the title Closing the Deal: the campus interview and beyond. This will cover what to do at a campus interview and how to negotiate. Chawne and Dave will organize the panel.

We talk about what events might relate to the improved job market. Kevin says it would scare him to have three open offers. We could cover how to negotiate and decide.

Heather has a friend will write about building a teaching portfolio. This would be geared for faculty who want to demonstrate their teaching expertise for tenure or promotion review.

We review ideas for articles. The Banc One article and the Farrugia article from last year are dead. Heather's wish list includes an article for faculty in their first year or two. Idea: Things you wish your Chair had told you.

Following up the discussion about high teaching loads at the Town Meeting, Heather will write about how her school decreased the number of preps per faculty.

Emil will mail YMN business cards to board members.

Ideas for the tenth anniversay: Lyn suggests a history page on the website.

We should have a Best of CoYM index to our web pages.

Emil asked if there was much interest in an article on parliamentary procedure for the Concerns.

Dov has a pending article on working with undergrads.

Exploitation of faculty: being required to teach off-campus or to develop and teach an internet course can be exploitation. Heather's husband Mark was teaching 17 hours yet was asked to do more.

Committee service can be time-consuming. Idea for an article: When to say no. Committee service can put you in the line of fire when you're not tenured, Kevin remarks. You may not want to vote against a course proposal put forth by a colleague on a committee, if that same colleague is going to vote on your tenure. How can you get your department to support you if you refuse an additional committee assignment.

What are inappropriate questions in an interview? If an interviewer asks you a forbidden question, it can be suicide not to answer.

David wants to write on the job market.

Idea for an article on running a grad student colloquium, or "slow pitch seminar" (Jennifer Ziebarth?)

Heather asks whether the improved job market really helps the two-body problem.

Emil proposes that we start using the list moderator@youngmath.org instead of listing next month's editor in each CoYM issue.

Editing duties:

• February: Heather
• March: Lyn
• April: John
• May: Dov
• June: Sharon