• Introduction of each person, including their name and school (approximately 25 in attendance).

• Discussion of Goals and Objectives:
• Include Goal #2 to read ENCOURAGE conversations amidst the NACADA membership about sexual orientation and gender identification, and its relationships in issues in advising, etc.
• Include Goal #2 to read ESTABLISH a supportive environment where advisors can discuss and address homophobia and heterophobia in their institution, etc.
• Discussed Commission Review that will take place in April.  Asked membership to help contribute ideas and state accomplishments.  A note will be put out on the distribution lists to call for ideas, etc.   Casey Self will write up commission review with assistance from Randy Jedele and regional representatives.

• Discussed concept of Regional Representatives from our commission to each region. 
Region 1
Region 2
Region 3
Region 4 Darryl Hollonan
Region 5 Marla Zimmerman
Region 6 Randy Jedele
Region 7 
Region 8 
Region 9 Todd Wolfe
Region 10
• Discussed Service to Commission Award, and the fact that we are budgeted to present this award for 2001.  Criteria will be established by commission chair and regional representatives.

• List serve Discussions - decided to set the "response" on the commission list serve to go back to EVERYONE on the list serve and not just the message initiator.  We will evaluate this again next year to see if it is working OK.

• Commission Web Site - Brainstormed ideas to include in the commission web site to be developed before next October.  Ideas included:
*Powerpoints/handouts from conference presentations
*Meeting minutes
*Commission Newsletter distribution
*Links to campus programs/groups
*Coming Out issues
*Photos of group activities
*Glossary of common term

• NACADA Journal Articles - Randy discussed the benefits of our commission members writing articles for the NACADA Journal.  Randy volunteered to help anyone who is thinking about doing this, or even co-authoring an article with someone.

• Announcements were made regarding commission fair immediately following this meeting, the social this evening in the lounge, and possible future openings for officer positions within the commission.

A newsletter was created to highlight the Orlando Conference activities involving the commission.  This newsletter was made available right next to the ribbons at check in.  On the back of this newsletter was an "ad" celebrating National Coming Out Day which takes place on October 11th.  Several NACADA members participated by listing their names on the flyer supporting NACADA's commitment to serving our LGBT students and staff members.