Minutes of Annual General Meeting of the Chemical Education Division, 84th CSC Conference and Exhibition, Hilton
Bonaventure Hotel, May 28, 2001

Present: Sudhir Abhyankar, Hugh Anderson, Margaret-Ann Armour (vice chair), Mary Baldwin, Sharon Bennett
(secretary), Lew Brubacher (Chair), Geoff Rayner-Canham , Catherine Edgar, David Ford (treasurer), Kurt
Headrick, Norm Hunter, Pippa Lock, Judith Poë, John Sichel, Joe Takats, John Woollard.

1. Minutes of the Chemical Education Division AGM held in Calgary, May 29, 2000

The minutes were accepted as circulated.

2. Business Arising from the Minutes

(a) Chemical Milestones and (b) Murray Brooker memorial

Excerpt from 2001 Chair’s report by Lew Brubacher:

a.Chemical Milestones: This is the series of posters prepared by Martha Langford and Hugh Anderson for the
Calgary meeting last year. We took action that those posters should be entrusted to the CED. Our concern was that
they not languish somewhere, nevermore to be seen. Martha Langford reports that:

• with the help of the Calgary Science Centre, a CD has been produced
• the CD has been licenced to the CIC
• CIC will likely put them on their Web site
• in March the posters started appearing on the third last page of ACCN
• the actual posters are stored in the Chemistry Department at U of Calgary, and are available for display at
  conferences. They were displayed at the Alberta Science Teachers’ Conference last November.

At the meeting of the executive committee of the division on May 27, 2001, a motion was put forth, and carried, asking that
head office put the Chemical Milestones posters on the CIC Web site as soon as possible.

(b) Murray Brooker memorial

The number of possibilities were discussed during the meeting of the executive committee but a plan of action was not
decided upon during the meeting. The various options put forth will be discussed further amongst the members of the
executive during the upcoming months.

3. Actions from the executive meeting of the division on Sunday May 27, 2001

• Chemical Milestones: See point 2(a)
• Booth at the Chem Ed 2001 meeting:
  The logistics of having a booth at the Chem Ed 2001 meeting was brought up in the Chair’s report and discussed at the
  executive meeting. People were in strongly favour of having a booth at this conference.

The following two motions were proposed and carried:

It was moved that (a) Gale Thirlwall-Wilbee be encouraged to represent our interest in this ChemEd 2001 conference to the incoming president of the CIC and (b) Lew Brubacher represent these same interests to the president of the CSC at the May 29th 2001 meeting of the division chairs.

A second proposal on this topic was discussed and it was moved that, if need be, the chemical education division be
prepared to provide up to $500 for a booth at the ChemEd 2001 Conference.

4. Reports

(a) Chair's Report (Lew Brubacher)

Lew’s report is annexed to the minutes and portions of this report are cited in these minutes.

(b) Treasurer's Report (David Ford)

(see point 6)

(c) Task Force Coordinators’ Reports

i. National High School Chemistry Examination (Sudhir Abhyankar and Leslie Barton)

Sudhir Abhyankar presented his preliminary report on the high school chemistry exam; at the time of our
meeting the results for the Atlantic region were not yet complete. Sudhir reminded us that, as per last year, the
organization of the exam has been split into two parts. Leslie Barton, sets the questions and Sudhir administers
the exam including the organization of the regional coordinators and the National judge and distribution of the
exam. The 2001 exam was held on Tuesday April 24. The number of students who wrote the exam was 1355
from 236 schools. The participation rate was down by 21% from last year, and this is of concern as it is the
second year in which a sharp drop in participation has been noted. The average on the multiple choice questions
was 7.8/25 and this was lower than in previous years (in 2000 the average was 8.7/25; in 1994 the average was
14.2/25) so that the exam was more difficult. The number of schools who have students take the exam is about
10% of the schools who are notified.

Sudhir states in his report that we need to redefine the goals, objectives and the purpose of this examination.

Sudhir thanked Leslie Barton (National Examiner), Jim Wright (National Judge), all the Regional and District
Coordinators for their time, efforts, dedication and help. Geoff Rayner-Canham, on behalf of the members of
the chemical education division, thanked Sudhir and Leslie for their efforts.

Sudhir informed us that the 2002 exam will take place on April 23rd. Sudhir and Leslie asked for comments and
suggestions.

The drop in the average mark for part A of the high school exam and the drop in participation rate was of
concern to all of us. Some of the suggestions put forth by Leslie, Sudhir and others include:

• Testing the level of difficulty of the exam by giving it to a group of entering first year university students.
  Judith Poë mentioned that 1st year students entering the University of Toronto write such an exam.
• Increase the number of easier questions on the exam
• Send out samples of the exam format in advance to teachers so that they and their students will have a
  better appreciation of the exam style.
• Limit the exam question material to the core curriculum in the Pan-Canadian Protocol
• The extremely low marks for Quebec may be due to the fact that some of the material covered by the exam
  is not seen until CEGEP
• Post answers and detailed solutions to past exam questions on the Web.
• Promote participation through science fairs
• Set up a chemistry challenge using some old exam questions.
• Consider offering the option of electronic distribution of the exam so as to cut down on costs; regular
  distribution would also be offered. The hope is that people would gradually switch over to electronic
  distribution with time.

ii. Affiliates Report: (Submitted by Gordon Bates to S Bennett by e-mail, June 5, 2001)

There are currently 178 paid and active members of the High School Affiliates programme. Of this number, 60
are members of C3 who paid a $10/year additional fee which was forwarded to me for deposit into the account
that I administer for the HSA programme. The remaining 118 members are high school teachers (a fairly
steady-state number now) who pay $10 for a two-year membership in the affiliates programme. All of the paid-up
HSA members are sent the March (education) issue of ACCN and are entitled to a significantly discounted
registration fee at the CSC meeting.

iii. History of Chemistry (Hugh Anderson & Sharon Bennett)

Hugh reported that a session on the "History of the Pharmaceutical Industry in Canada" had been organized by
Sharon Bennett for this years meeting. Sharon stated that this was a joint symposium between the Biological/Medicinal Division and the Chemical Education Division and that the co-organizer of this symposium is Masad Damha. Speakers include Dr. Robert Zamboni (Merck Frosst), Dr. Helen Graves Smith (Canada Science and Technology Museum), Dr. Gervais Dionne (one of the founders of BioChem Pharma) and Dr. André Uddin (Research Capital Corp.). Sharon added that a joint three day session between Chemical Education and the Physical/Theoretical Division had also been organized by Tony Whitehead and by Tucker Carrington on the "History and Applications of Theoretical Chemistry".

iv. Women in Science Task Group (Margaret-Ann Armour & Sharon Bennett)

The business meeting and dinner of the Women in Science Task Group is to take place off-site this evening (Monday, May 28th ) at no cost to the division or to those attending the event. This replaces the traditional luncheon meeting and about 25 people have pre-registered with Sharon for this event. Christian Riel of Merck Frosst has offered to host our meeting and to include our group in the tour he has planned for graduate students; the idea was to avoid putting female students wishing to attend our meeting in a scheduling conflict with the graduate students tour. Merck Frosst will arrange for transportation, provide food and refreshments and a conference room from ca. 8-10 pm. Chemists from Merck Frosst have volunteered to act as tour guides, for everyone visiting on Monday night. Margaret-Ann has invited Dr. Anne Alper from NSERC and Professor Susannah Scott from the Chemistry Department of the University of Ottawa to speak to our group.

v. ACCN Education Issue ( Lew Brubacher for Gale Thirlwall-Wilbee)

Gale reported that the Education and National Chemistry Week Issues of ACCN will be merged and are
tentatively scheduled for March publication.

(d) Report on the Chemical Education Program, CSC Conference, Montreal (Sharon Bennett)

The chemical education division program at the Montreal CSC conference is a joint program between the Chemical
Education Division of the CIC and College Chemistry Canada (C3). Bob Perkins has been our liaison with C3 and has
encouraged C3 members to participate actively by: organizing some of the symposia, presenting talks (invited and
contributed) and posters, and helping to judge the undergraduate poster competition. The level of participation is
high this year in terms of: people attending the sessions, invited speakers, contributed talks, symposium organizers,
students giving oral presentations, undergraduate students competing in the poster competition (see point 7a) and
people involved in the judging (3 for the oral presentations & 25 for the posters). Many people have worked hard to
make this a successful conference and Sharon thanks them for all of their efforts and collaboration.

The schedule for the Montreal meeting is as follows (most events are in the Verdun Room):

Teaching Chemistry to Non-Chemistry Students and Explaining it to the General Public (Sunday 8:55-11:00 and
13:55 -15:00 pm) Organizers: Colin Baird (U of Western Ontario) and Sylvie Tardif (Vanier CEGEP).Invited Speakers: David N. Harpp (McGill), Joe Schwarcz (Vanier/McGill), Conrad Stanitski (Arkansas)

Chemical Education Executive Meeting (Sunday, 12:00-13:45)

Undergraduate Poster Session (Sunday afternoon, 15:00-17:00) Organizer: Anne-Marie Faucher (Boehringher-Ingelheim)

"How do I do it?- Experiments and Demonstrations for Introductory Chemistry Courses" (Monday 8:35-11:20 and
13:35-15:00)Organizer: Ariel Fenster (Vanier/McGill)Invited speakers: Harry Wilson (John Abbott College), Pierre Pichet ( UQÀM)

Union Carbide Award Lecture (15:20-16:05, Judith Poë)

College Chemistry Canada Annual General Meeting (16:20-17:00)

(Followed by the C3 banquet, off-site)

Chemical Education Division General Meeting (17:00-17:40)

Women in Science Task Group Business Meeting and Dinner (Monday evening)

(18:15 bus departure from Hilton Front Door)

Chemistry Teaching Laboratories for the New Millennium:Changes and Challenges - Advanced Level Laboratories (Tuesday 7:55-12:00). Organizer: Grazyna Wilczek (McGill) Invited Speakers: Eric Salin (McGill University) , Cameron Skinner (Concordia)

General Session (Tuesday, 13:35-17:00) Organizers: Bob Browne (Douglas College, C3) and Sharon Bennett (UQÀM) Invited Speaker: Bob Perkins (Kwantlen University College)

Poster Session and Exam Question Exchange (Tuesday night, 17:30-19:00) Organizer: Bob Perkins

Role of the TA in Chemistry Teaching (Wednesday, 8:15-12:00) Organizer: D. Berry (U. of Victoria) Invited Speakers: Ian Mackay (Southern Alberta Institute of Technology), Chris Bauer (Chemistry Dept., University
of New Hampshire), Michael Pungente (University of British Columbia)

History of the Pharmaceutical Industry in Canada (Wednesday 13:35-16:00)(Joint with Medicinal and Biological Division) Organizers: Masad Damha (McGill) and Sharon Bennett (UQÀM).)Invited speakers: Robert Zamboni (Merck Frosst), Gervais Dionne (BioChem Pharma), Andre Uddin (Research Capital Corp.).

History and Application of Theoretical Chemistry (Sunday am/pm, Monday am/pm, Tuesday am/pm) (Joint with Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Division) Organizers: M.A. Whitehead (McGill) and T. Carrington (U de M)

We are grateful to the following institutions for sponsorship of the chemical education division program: Biovail Contract Research; Boehringer Ingelheim Canada ; Kimble/Kontes; Ocean Optics; McGraw-Hill Ryerson; Merck Frosst Canada and the Université du Québec à Montréal.

Fund raising efforts were successful enough so as to ensure that that the $1500 loan provided by the chemical education division would be repaid and to provide:

• additional monetary prizes for the undergraduate poster competition
• travel awards to two students presenting a poster or talk in the joint Chemical Education division/College Chemistry
  Canada program (Davin Carter and Deborah Herrington; $350 x 2)
• money to cover, in part, the expenses of our invited speakers
• award dinner tickets for invited speakers and symposium organizers

Registration fee waivers for two invited speakers per half-day session were provided by the conference committee. In addition, McGraw-Hill (US) covered all of the expenses for one of our invited speakers (Conrad Stanitski) and Merck Frosst hosted the Women in Science Task Group Business Meeting and Dinner at no cost to the participants or the division.

Judith Poë asked Sharon if money would be transferred to the chemical education division in the event that the conference as
a whole made a profit. Sharon promised to look into this and assured the members of the executive that she would represent
the interests of the division in this matter.

On behalf of the Division, Lew thanked Sharon for her unstinting work in organizing the conference, and to Bob for his unfailing help.

(e) Report on NCW for 2001 (Lew Brubacher for Gale Thirlwall-Wilbee)

Gale informed us that National Chemistry Week will take place October 12-20, 2001 with a national launch in Halifax on
October 12th.

5. Future Conferences

(a) CSC 2002- Vancouver (Gordon Bates & Bob Perkins)

Gordon Bates & Bob Perkins are organizing the chemical education program at the Vancouver meeting of the CSC. Bob Perkins reported that the chemical education programme at the 2002 CSC conference will again be a joint effort between the chemical education division of the CIC and College Chemistry Canada. This will be the second year of two year trial after which time a decision will be taken regarding similar collaborations between the two groups at future national CSC meetings.

The dates of the conference are June 01-05, 2002. The conference will be held at the University of British Columbia. The proposed symposia for the 2002 are listed below and more information on the 2002 conference is currently available on the following Web site: http://www.chem.ubc.ca/csc2002/

Chemical Education (Joint with C3) - Gordon Bates and Bob Perkins

Higher-Level Teaching/Learning/Evaluation Strategies - How to accomplish them without all of the work
Resource/Learning Centres - How do they work? How do students use them?
Introductory Organic Chemistry is Different. How do we get students to accept this idea and begin to think "outside of the box"?
The Research Experience in Undergraduate Laboratories

(b) CSC 2003, Ottawa, August 2003

Excerpt from Chair’s report:

Bryan Henry is the Program Chair for the joint meeting with IUPAC in Ottawa in August 2003. He would like a Chemical Education person, and strongly prefers that it be someone in the Ottawa area. Most of his committee is in place and all except one person is from the Ottawa area.

Several potential candidates were suggested. It was decided that Margaret-Ann and Lew first approach Susannah Scott to see if she might be interested in taking on this job.

6. Division Financial Statement and Budget (David Ford)

David presented his report. He reminded us that the 1999 CSC conference in Toronto had generated a profit and that
a portion of this profit was transferred to the various divisions; Chemical Education was the recipient of $2, 265.18.
At the 2000 meeting in Calgary it was decided that this money be available to organizers of future CSC/CSChE
conferences. Seed money was provided in the form of a loan of $1500 to the organizer (Sharon Bennett) of the joint
Chemical Education Division/College Chemistry Canada program of the 2001 CSC meeting in Montreal; David and
Sharon both confirmed that this money is to be repaid to the division. At this point in time, David has not received a
request for seed money for the CSChE conference.

David listed the annual awards that involve the Chemical Education Division:
a) Poster/Paper Presentation at Regional Undergraduate Student Conferences (6)
b) Undergraduate Poster Competition at the national CSC conference
c) Student Paper Presentation at the national CSC conference (i.e. the Reg Friesen Award)
d) National High School Exam (NHSCE)

David stated that while a clear set of guidelines is available for the NHSCE, this is not the case for the other three
categories of awards. He requested that a clear set of guidelines be drafted, approved by members of the Division
executive, and presented to organizers of future conferences. David also mentioned that the amount advertised for
the Montreal meeting for the prize for student paper presentation at the national CSC meeting was $200 but that we
had in fact decided last year that this should be changed to two prizes - a first place prize of $350 and a second place
prize of $150. Sharon Bennett added that this information will be transmitted to the organizers of the Vancouver
conference so as to avoid a similar confusion in future meetings. Sharon also mentioned that the guidelines for the
awards at the national CSC meeting used by Anne-Marie Faucher (organizer of the 2001 poster competition) and
Sharon Bennett (organizer of the oral presentation competition of the 2001 meeting) for the Montreal meeting will
be part of a document that she is preparing for distribution to members of the chemical education executive and to
future conference organizers. Lew Brubacher mentioned that Alaa S. Abd-El-Aziz has submitted a draft statement
regarding the awards at regional undergraduate conferences and that it is included in his Chair's report.

Judith informed us that in the near future, that there will be a change regarding the signing authorities for checking
accounts of the divisions and the local sections. In light of this the following motion was proposed by John Sichel and
seconded by David Ford:

Signing authorities for the division may be two people from the division executive or one person from the division
executive plus one of the signing authorities from head office. CARRIED

David moved and Judith seconded the acceptance of the financial reports. CARRIED

Geoff thanked Dave for his excellent work.

7. Other Reports.

(a) Undergraduate Student Poster Presentation (Anne-Marie Faucher & S. Bennett)

Anne-Marie Faucher organized the undergraduate poster competition for the 2001 CSC meeting. The
deadline for registration for the competition was moved from May 1st to May 3rd due to electronic problems
with abstract submission. The competition was publicized in the preliminary program for the 2001 CSC
conference and on the conference Web site; Anne-Marie also had information on the competition sent out
via e-mail by Pierre Lemasson to all CSC members in February.

Anne-Marie received 77 entries by the May 3rd deadline: 30 % of the entries were from Nova Scotia, 23%
from Quebec, 20% from Ontario and the remainder from universities and colleges in New Brunswick, PEI,
Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia and the USA . Due to the large number of entries, the judging of
the posters was done a little differently this year. Anne-Marie consulted Sharon and the other members of
the chemical education division executive regarding a new procedure. It was decided that the 77 entries be
subdivided into 7 groups, according to the research topic, and that 7 groups of judges would be formed.
Each group would have 3-4 judges. There was at least one french speaking judge per panel for those
subgroups where francophone students were competing. One prize of $200 would be awarded to each of the
7 sub-groups: 4 of these prizes were to be administered by the chemical education division treasurer and
the remaining 3 prizes were to come from funds raised specifically, by the chemical education division rep
on the Montreal conference committee (S. Bennett), for chem. Ed activities at the Montreal meeting. It was
also decided that 4 participation prizes of $50 each be provided from funds raised by S. Bennett and that
Anne-Marie would contact exhibitors at the meeting to ask for additional participation prizes.

(After the meeting, Anne-Marie provided the following summary):

73 posters were presented by 69 participants (/77 registrations). The winners in each of the 7 groups are
listed below. They each received a 200$ prize provided by the division of Chemical Education and their
sponsors. The prizes were announced and given at the Chemical Education Awards reception on
Wednesday May 30. Those who could not attend the reception had their prize sent through the mail. In
addition to these prizes, 22 participation prizes (donated in part by the Chem. Ed. Division and in part by
some of the exhibitors of the conference) were drawn from the list of non-winner-participants. The
exhibitors who provided additional prizes include: Pearson Education Canada, MCH Multimedia Inc.,
Anachemia, l'Ordre des Chimistes du Québec, Argonaut, Wiley, Varian, Sigma-Aldrich, VWR Canlab, CDN
Isotopes, Waters, MEGS Gaz speciaux, Harcourt Canada and the 2001 CSC conference committee. In these
prizes, we had cash money (9 prizes ranging from 45$ to 60 $) and gifts (chemistry books, shirts, complimentary
gifts from companies). In total, 29 / 69 students went home with a prize.

For a list of winners, see the awards page

(b) Reg Friesen graduate/undergraduate oral competition (Sharon Bennett)

Five students (B. Sc., M. Sc. and Ph. D. levels ) entered the graduate/undergraduate student oral
competition. Three are presenting talks in the role of the TA symposium, one student is presenting a talk in
the advanced level chemistry laboratories symposium and the fifth student is presenting in the "How do I
Do it ? Experiments and Demonstrations for Introductory Chemistry Courses" symposium. Lew Brubacher,
Dave Berry and Grazyna Wilczek have agreed to act as judges for this competition. Two prizes are offered
($350 and $150) from the Chemical Education Division for this competition. The winners will be announced (
and the prizes distributed) at the Chemical Education Division Awards Banquet, organized by Gale
Thirlwall-Wilbee, on Wednesday in the Portage room from 12:00-13:30.

(Information added after the meeting, see the awards page )

1st place ($350): Catherine Edgar (McGill University, Pulp and Paper Research Center); abstract # 1044 title:
"Bridge Over Murky Waters"

2nd place ($150): Deborah Herrington (Department of Chemistry, Purdue University); abstract # 1043; title:
"Evaluating Chemistry Laboratory TAs. What Defines Effective Laboratory Instruction?"

(c) Chem Ed Web page (Lew Brubacher for Peter Mahaffy)

Peter reports that he is updating most of the pages on our Web site (http://www.kingsu.ab.ca/~chemed/welcome.htm). He relies on feedback from others to keep the site up-to-date. Sharon and Lew will see to it that this week’s winners of awards info will go to him.

(d) Chem Ed list server (Lew Brubacher for Deniz Karman)

Deniz Karman continues to operate the ChemEd listerserver: chemed-l@cunews.carleton.ca , but it doesn’t have much traffic. He says that "you should send your message directly to this address for distribution to the list."

(e) Liaison with College Chemistry Canada (C3)

Sharon, Geoff, Lew and David attended the C3 AGM meeting and reported that the possibility of an increase in registration fees for C3 members for the Vancouver 2002 conference was of concern to the members of C3. Such an increase would severely limit future collaborations between the Chemical Education Division and College Chemistry Canada at the national CSC conferences.

The following motion was proposed by Sharon Bennett and seconded by Geoff Rayner-Canham:

We acknowledge our deep appreciation to the members of C3 for their participation in the 84th CSC conference as symposium organizers, invited and contributing speakers, and as judges for the undergraduate poster competition; their impact was dramatic. We recognize that the special registration category of Chem Ed affiliates was extremely important in making the joint program at this years conference possible. We strongly recommend that this practice be maintained for future conferences. CARRIED

Lew confirmed that this motion would be read at the meeting of the division chairs on Tuesday May 29th.
Sharon mentioned that similar comments would be included in the final report of the Montreal organizing
committee for the 84th CSC.

The incoming president of College Chemistry Canada is Keith Germaine (president Elect 2001, C3)

kgermaine@Okanagan.bc.ca

Okanagan University College
1000 KLO Road
Kelowna BC
V1Y 4X8

(Note added after the meeting: Lew reports that he did raise this matter and read the motion at the meeting of Subject Division Chairs on May 29. Roland Andersson's comment was that the actual cost to the CSC (for room rental, coffee, etc.) is more than the $50 registration fee for High School Affiliates. Lew pointed out the value of having C3 people participate, even if it requires a small subsidy. Anyone of influence reading these minutes should help to carry the ball for low HSA Registration.).

8. Report on Chem Ed related awards (Lew Brubacher)

The award winners are as follows:

CSC
Clara Benson: Sharon G. Roscoe, Acadia Unversity
Union Carbide: Judith Poë, University of Toronto

CSCT
Nova Chemicals Ltd. Robert Browne, Douglas College

High School Teachers
Bayer Rubber Inc. There were no nominations this year and therefore no winners

Lew congratulated the winners of this years competition.

Lew mentioned in his report that we need to encourage nominations for the high school teacher awards and the Nova
Chemicals Teaching awards. The terms of these awards, and the nomination procedures, are described on the CSCT Web site
(Nova) and the CIC Web site (Bayer). The ChemEd 2001 meeting may be an appropriate venue to advertise the high school
award. The possibility of informing people about this award by means of the Chem ed list server or perhaps the C3
newsletter was discussed in the executive meeting.

9. Report from Chem Ed CIC Representative (submitted by e-mail by Gale Thirlwall-Wilbee for Alaa Abd-El-Aziz,
CSC Director, Student Affairs)

I.Number of Paid Student Members for 2001

a) 18 undergraduate students, 249 graduate students

b) Application forms were sent to targeted universities and colleges

II. Congratulatory Cards

a) Cards mailed – 1300 English and 175 French cards

b) Champions at each university/college were asked to distribute the cards along with membership information.

c) Students have called for more information on membership because of these cards.

III.Chapter Executives

a)Initial contact with Student Chapter Presidents for 2001-2002 has been made. Contact will be made again in early to mid-September for Chapters who have not yet chosen their executives.

b)The Student Chapter Handbook will be put on the Web.

IV.Student Conferences

a) Three of the undergraduate student conferences have taken place this year and all have been very successful.
b) Sherbrooke’s colloque takes place in October. A CSC representative should attend this conference but preferably someone French speaking.
c)Université de Québec à Montréal hosted the 4th Graduate Student Research Symposium in Chemistry and Biochemistry on May 7-9.

V.Awards

a) Student Chapters’ Merit Award – Dalhousie University (first place), University College of the Cariboo
(honourable mention)
b) Faculty Advisors’ Award – 1st one given out to John Corrigan of University of Western Ontario
c) These 2 awards will be presented on Wednesday at noon at the Student Awards Reception
d) Graduate Student Award – due to lack of interest from graduate students (based on last three year’s submissions and discussion with graduate students), this competition was not held

VI. Recommendations

a) Student Chapter membership marketing is a key strategic initiative. Contact with the new Chapter executives should be made in early to mid-September, with additional targeted membership marketing campaigns taking place in November and late March, prior to mid-term and final exams.

b) Increased interaction between students and Local Sections should be encouraged.

c) CSC should look at ways to obtain feedback from graduate and undergraduate students, other than students attending one Board meeting annually, i.e. focus group.

10. Officers for 2001-2002

Geoff Rayner-Canham presented the following slate of candidates and asked for nominations from the floor:

Chair: Margaret-Ann Armour

Vice–Chair: Sharon Bennett

Treasurer: David Ford

Secretary: to be determined

No other nominations were proposed. Lew declared nominations closed and the slate elected.

Norm Hunter proposed and John Sichel seconded that Geoff and Lew be vested with the task of finding a secretary
for the 2001-2002 term. CARRIED

(Note added after the meeting: Kathy Darvesh, from Mount St. Vincent University has since agreed to take on the role of
secretary)

11. Any other business

a) IUPAC: Peter Mahaffy is the Canadian representative to IUPAC's Committee on Teaching Chemistry (CTC) and reports (by e-mail) that the CTC is considering how best to carry out its educational roles at the IUPAC meetings in Brisbane this July.
b) Judith mentioned that this coming year will be the last one in Alaa’s term and that we will need to find someone to represent the chemical education division on the board of the CIC .
c) Geoff thanked Lew for his good work as chair of the Chemical Education Division

12. Adjournment

The meeting was adjourned at 17:45.

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