Scholarly Research Committee

Chair: Tom Nevill, E-mail: tom.nevill@utb.edu
The Scholarly Research Committee promotes and advances scholarly research in all areas of percussion and coordinates the activities of the Scholarly Paper and Poster Presentations at each PASIC. The committee oversees and coordinates submissions for the PAS Online Research Journal.

Committee Report and PASIC 2007 Meeting Minutes
Submitted January 15, 2008
by Scholarly Research Committee Chair Tom Nevill

The Scholarly Research Committee began 2007 by adopting a new evaluation process for PASIC presentations. This new process included utilizing a rubric to assist in evaluating the proposals that were submitted. The rubric did provide some assistance in the evaluation process. The committee received ten applications to review for possible PASIC 2007 research presentations. Of the ten applications, two paper presentations, two poster presentations, and one lecture presentation were chosen.

The Scholarly Research Committee was also asked early in the year to be involved in the development of a keyword search database for the PAS Website. The committee expects to finish their work in 2008. In the final days of 2007, two submissions for the PAS Online Research Journal were distributed to committee members for review.

PASIC 2007 Meeting Minutes
Committee Members Present: Tom Nevill (Chair), Lonny Benoit, Andrew Bliss, Jeff Calissi, Dean Gronemeier, Julie Hill, Kathleen Kastner, David Lopez, Susan Martin Tariq, Cort McClaren, Kerry O’Brien, Lisa Rogers, James Strain, and Allen Teel.

Committee Meeting Agenda:

1. Introduction

2. Welcome of New Members
3. Update Contact Information
4. Old Business
   1. Research Proposal Application/Rubric for discussion and/or addendums
   2. Encourage attendance to committee sponsored sessions
5. New Business
   1. Update on keyword search database by Michael Kenyon
   2. PAS website issues
   3. Other issues

1. Jeff Calissi to speak on new ideas for the committee

2. Thoughts on poster presentations being displayed at museum after PASIC

6. Adjourn

Meeting Minutes:
The annual committee meeting began with the introduction of current members, new members, and guests that were present. The committee member contact list was circulated in order to update any information of new and existing members. Under old business, the committee was asked if any changes or addendums should be made for the research proposal application and rubric. It was mentioned that the 2007 application process for submitting materials for PASIC did not exactly line up with the new rubric. It was further discussed that the application process had been revised to coincide with new rubric and has been published for the 2008 PASIC research proposal submissions. The chair also encouraged all committee members to attend and support the scholarly research committee sponsored sessions and the poster presentations at this year’s PASIC. Under new business, Jeff Calissi expressed interest in addressing the committee about a yearly print version of submitted scholarly articles for those who require certain materials for tenure review or dossier purposes. A great deal of discussion followed about funding this type of project and if this type of publication would be viable for tenure review purposes. The general consensus from the committee was that is not cost effective to print and that a tenure review would not require anything beyond regular evidence of publication. Similarly, there was some discussion regarding the online research journal and how it can be better organized. The chair will contact PAS to address organizing the publications by author last name, thus providing some organization to the list. The last item under new business was a short presentation by Michael Kenyon about the keyword search database project. Michael spoke about how the process of entering the data will occur online through primary and secondary categories. The chair will continue to be the liaison between Michael and the committee as this project takes shape in 2008.