Happy Tuesday afternoon:

The lastest word on IFS meeting at WOU on Oct 8 and 9 (and Oct 7 events for all who can get to them) is as follows:

Thursday, Oct 7

• 1330-1430 - OUS Board-IFS meeting
• Other State Board activities

Friday, Oct 8 all morning - IFS Exec Board/other Senators attend OUS Board Meeting

•  12:30 - Light lunch available
• 1:00 - Welcome to Western Oregon by Western Oregon University President Philip Conn and Provost Jem Specter
• 1:45 - Interm Chancellor George Pernsteiner
• 2:30 - James Sager, Higher Ed Policy Advisor to Gov. Kulongoski
• 3:15 - break
• 3:30 - Oregon State Senator Ben Westlund (R) and Senate President Peter Courtney (D)
• 4:30 - ORP & PERS discussion by Denise Yunker & Lisa Zavalas
• 5:00 - Social - time approximate - soda, beer and wine courtesy of IFS

• 0800 - Light breakfast
• 0830 - President Conn (if not on Friday afternoon)
• 0900 - Report from the various campuses
• 0930 - Academic Council Report (Dan Edge and Peter Gilkey)
• 1000 - Break
• 1015 - Update on OUS Board Legislative Proposals & Working Groups
• 1045 - General discussion of IFS initiatives for 2005
• 1200 - Adjourn

The following url points you to places to stay in Monmouth and Dallas, and to maps of the area and of campus. http://www.wou.edu/core_features/findit/maps/places_to_stay.html My recommendations would be either the Howell House or the Courtesy Inn in Monmouth or the Best Western in Dallas, unless you wish to commute from Salem. We'll be meeting at Gentle House (#10, WWWAAAYYY up at the top of the campus map at http://www.wou.edu/core_features/findit/maps/campus_overhead.html), which has plenty of parking adjacent to the building, and you'll not need a parking permit.

Look forward to seeing you all in Monmouth very soon!

Peace! Bob