Fran said that only four tax Ph.D. students were at the latest consortium. Shirley and Anne questioned whether we should continue the midyear Board meeting on Friday mornings if we continue to have a CPE session also on Friday mornings. The Board did not decide the issue. The new faculty research session was cancelled this year due to insufficient submissions. If it is run in the future, we need to look at alternative means of publicizing it.
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Dick suggested that we let the President and Vice President do their jobs without micromanaging by the Board. The Board mandated the legal and education research sessions this year as a test of the level of interest in the legal and education research areas. The President has the power to mandate sessions through committee charges and also has veto power. The President and Vice President make the actual operating decisions of the sessions. Meeting Site Survey for 2003.