Shared Governance Meeting

Tuesday, December 4^th 2007

1. Introductions

We did guilty music pleasures.

2. Announcements

1. Director of Student Advocacy and Judicial Affairs Interviews: December 5 at 11:00 am, December 7 at 1:00 pm

1. There are two interview left for tomorrow at 11:00 and Friday 1pm
2. Internship Program
1. Every semester ASM gets hires new inters
2. Good way to learn how to run an org
3. Can get course credit
4. There will be an email sent out. However, it is a rolling admission.
3. First meeting Spring semester: Tuesday, January 29, 2008
1. We get back on the 22^nd
4. Officer roles/process
1. Part of their duties is the check in and support committee members
2. Might receive emails from your committee leader in the coming month
3. It is to help Jeff and Travis organize Shared Gov.
4. Will send out email with the name of your group leader

3. Scheduling Conflicts in Spring 08

1. Ask chair to change meeting time

1. If you have a conflict you can ask the chair to change the time of the meeting. You have that right. However , some committees never change (especially large committees)
2. We learned that some people have conflicts so we may do a committee swap.

4. Blog Tutorial

1. Travis gave an introduction of how to post

2. You must have a gmail account otherwise you might have to use an anonymous post
3. You should put what committee you service on, your name, date, etc
4. Can post minutes, and comments, and any important events or decisions for Shared Gov
5. Travis and Jeff are the blog administrators

5. Committee Reports

1. (My computer froze and I couldn’t remember what committee this was for) (sorry)

1. Halloween is an issue next year because it falls on a Saturday and the city is looking for student input.
2. We brainstormed feedback: Both night were big on previous nights when Halloween fell on a Saturday, there were lots of complaints on the exits and entrances so the city is looking at that problem, the city can’t do anything about the 5 dollars entrance fee
2. WSM
1. Approved management team for next year
2. Doing well on budget
3. Getting an emergency system worked on (campus crisis committee?)
4. They want to update the website, if they should buy a web site
5. Next meeting is in April

3. The Office of financial aid and admission
1. 18,000 students got financial aid this year, which comes to around 1.6 million this year
2. Admissions is behind because we have switched to electronic (as of now we are about 2,000 behind)
3. Hired additional staff members to help problem
4. How does the cutoff point work for admissions? They want around 5,600 freshmen but there is not a capping procedure. (25% of the class can be out of state (we are never close to that number))

4. Book Swap
1. You can sell books for more and buy for less
2. It is taking place on Jan 21^st (Classes start the 22^nd )
3. Want as many student volunteers and we pass around a sign up

5. Diversity over sight committee
1. Want students to take ethnic studies early (in frosh or soph year)and would like them to have hands on experience
2. Diversity forum for LGBT will meet at 7 check TITU

6. Committee on student Organizations
1. This committee needs be to revised and the new changes need to be put into print.
2. The reason we need to do this is to have a 9 member would rule out a tie, however they want it to be as staff member from SOO.
3. The reason behind this change is that it would rule out a tie vote, and the dean of students and SOO were once one and the same. However, they now have very different jobs and are separate groups. For some reason a voting member of SOO has been voting even though he/she didn’t have the right/power to for several years now.
4. All the hearings so far this year, have been unanimous but there have be instances where there has been a tie, so to fix this they want to officially give the SOO power.
5. We have to option to publicize this problem if we like.
6. We brainstormed Ideas: We want the SOO to have a voice, because dean of students and SOO, SOO still answers to the dean of students so it might give the faculty too much power, The SOO has a lot of power over student orgs so we need them to have order, The SOO has been voting for years and it hasn’t hurt anything,
7. We closed debate
8. We Voted in favor of the proposal.

6. Adjournment