Goal 2 Committee Minutes Teleconference July 12, 2016 Members present: Gary Ray, Sandra Hicks, John Marens Visitor: Rene Cummins Meeting was opened by Chari Gary Ray at 4:03 PM and Old Business: None New Business: Debbie had sent out a link and asked us to let her know if we felt that she should link to a particular site on the SILC Website. I originally looked at it and thought it was OK, but Josh did a more exhaustive review: Kaufman Feedback on Website About the website that Debbie sent out.  It’s a group that’s sponsored by several large on-line schools.  In their information they don’t say that they work independently and are an unbiased resource.  The only clarification I could find was that they feel attending an accredited school was important.  I also wasn’t able to find any references to them other than one of the sponsoring schools had a blurb saying that they’d ranked them as one of the top 5 game changers in On-Line Learning.  So my sense was that this was just a marketing tool for the large on-line schools so that they could generate their own rankings since not many, if any, of the independent ranking organizations weren’t giving them lots of kudos. We decided to let Debbie Hippler know that we do not think the SILC website should link to this resource. Debbie may want to keep the link on file and give it to folks when she feels it is appropriate. Youth Leadership Forum: We did not have any concise information on the YLF. It did happen in June at NCSU. The meeting was adjourned at 4:30pm The next meeting will be held by teleconference, Tuesday, September 13 at 4pm Respectfully submitted – Gary Ray, chair