[55] in UA Exec
Minutes from tonight's meeting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Liz Denys)
Wed Sep 23 21:32:59 2009
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:32:37 -0400
From: Liz Denys <lizdenys@MIT.EDU>
To: UA Executive Board <ua-exec@mit.edu>
A pretty .pdf can be found at http://ua.mit.edu/exec/.
Poorly word-wrapped text below (and at the site).
UA Executive Meeting
Minutes from September 23, 2009
1 Call to Order
The meeting was called to order at 7:00 pm.
2 Budget Task Force Update
Not meeting with Deans tonight, administrators schedules got crossed.
Meeting will occur October 5 at 7:30 pm in W20-400. This is before the
Special Budgetary Session of Senate.
The coordinating committee wants UA feedback by "mid-October." Later
this month, we will be writing position statements.
3 Committee on Alumni Relations
Tapped to replace Resource Development in the Fall.
Adnan Esmail '10 will be the chair. He's done a lot of work already and
wrote the seven-page proposal for it.
Great connection with Alumni Association. Will also be a connection
with past UA members.
Major Foci for the fall:
Build support among Deans
Build a strong committee
Work on existing programs with the Alumni Association
Work on establishing UA Alumni connection
4 Elections
Voting is pushed back until 12:01 am Saturday morning. Encourage
write-ins in dorms without candidates.
5 Why UA?
Why are we here?
What can Mike and Maggie do to help me get the most out of this experience?
Office hours
How to be a committee chair guide
Possible leadership day
Why am I here?
Great opportunity to work on communication
Need something outside of school
Like to complain and like to do something about it
MIT students need a better life
6 Student Engagement Committee/CJAC
6.1 SEC
New name for the Task Force on Student Engagement
We'd like to see more consistent undergraduate representation to
happen, so undergraduate representation on agenda, attempt amicable.
Martin (a former UAP) fought very hard for it to be all-UA, and this is
probably part of the reason why.
Worst case: Senate holds the power to remove, and Chancellor Clay will
honor that agreement.
We can turn last year's resolution into the bill.
The fourth floating seat was proposed in an intentionally vague manner
so that it could be on a meeting-by-meeting basis.
Consensus is Exec believes we should push for this.
6.2 CJAC
Idea oated to have the CJAC issue this year be to "centralize
undergraduate student government."
Not in favor of this because it won't affect most of CJAC (such as the
grad students); also, there seem to be more relevant and pertinent issues.
Other ideas for issues: housing renovations/deferred maintenance,
zeroing in on how funding works for student groups, finding/creating
student group space, restructuring the careers office? We want whatever
this issue becomes to be something we can use in the next year.
7 CAC Advisory Board
"The Board provides feedback on policy and program development as well
as suggestions for new and improved services and amenities that the CAC
could provide for the community. The Board meets 3 to 4 times per year."
Anyone interested?
8 Working Exec
Do the following if you haven't:
Committee Recruitment
Have I responded to all the applications I received?
Do I need more people still?
Have I sent Maggie my committees goals?
Is my committee page on the UA Website current?
Has my committee submitted Budget Task Force summaries?
Has my committee submitted a UA Budget/talked to the UAT?
Do all chairs / vice-chairs have UA office card access?
NomComm: Summer appointments?
History: UAS38-40?
Send in your budgets. You might get questions about your budget when
the Special Budgetary Committee meets.
9 Adjournment
The meeting was adjourned at 7:56 pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Elizabeth A. Denys
UA Secretary General
