Advisory Committee to the Offices of the Dean of Students

The committee met Thursday October 1 at 225 Hiram Smith Hall. The meeting was chaired by Professor Jacqueline Hitchon

After introductions of new and former members Dean Berquam asked the committee to review different proposal for the Madison Initiative for Undergraduates. Among the proposals and proponents were:

• Expansion of the Wisconsin Experience Seminar course. The proposal would create more sections for this course.
• GUTS Greater University Tutoring Service.
• McBurney Disability Resource Center
• MSC
• and others

(Copies of the proposals were returned to Dean Berquam)

Each member of the committee was handed out copies of each proposal and briefly read them. Dean Berquam introduced each one of the proposals and all members of the committee had the opportunity to comment on each proposal. Dean Berquam took note of all comments and opinions about each proposal. This process took most of the meeting's time.

An H1N1 flu update was given by Dean Berquam. The number of cases have been decreasing but it cannot be predicted what will happen in the future. Some members of the committee mentioned that pandemic plans were already in place in their departments while in others departments they were yet to be developed.

With that, the meeting adjourned.