7:10 - Meeting called to order
- Roll call and approval of minutes
Student Liaison to the Board of Trustees: Franz Meyer
- Update on the topics discussed in the last Board of Trustees meetings
- the alcohol policy
- student involvement in planning
- infrastructure - building, grounds, technology: IT and how that affects Mac; new Gmail
- Leonard Center now finished;, IGC finished by May
- Academic Affairs - student assessment: ways the administration can assess whether we learn anything at Mac; sabbatical policy - budgetary side, impact on student life
- Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center
- Admissions Committee- slightly fewer first years this year: fewer people accepted their admission decision; college remains committed to access: $42 mil for scholarships via Capital Campaign
- our endowment has dropped about 20%: focus resources on maintaining academic quality, faculty and staff compensation, maintain access
- next Board of Trustees meeting in March - coinciding with Founder's Day
SERF and Sustainability: Justin Lee
- MCSG donated 20,000 to SERF
- 45,000 cash balance: 20,000 invested
- Meetings: 4th Tuesday every month - email Justin for more info
- students come up with projects; 10 sustainability work-study positions across campus
- people need to start talking about sustainability in a serious way
- trying to get as many people who were not previously involved to become included in this process: the issue extends beyond environmentalism to include community engagement and academic integration
- 10 scheduled sustainability days between now and the end of the semester
FAC
- Art Alliance request for $295 - motion to table passed
- distributed proposed changes to bylaws
AAC
- open-access textbook day: advocating that all the electronic journals should be free
- we need to sit down and have some serious conversations about textbook related issues
- EPAG update:
- handbook revision
- academic emphasis versus a tract
- student involvement in department reviews: may be some institutional opposition
- IGC Update:
- internet dialogue space: inviting everyone to talk about different issues of global concern
- Event: debating for democracy
ERC
- win a lunch date with an Exec: working on publicity
- new tradition of birthdays: celebrate the birthdays at the end of the month
- senior election coming up very soon:
- publicity starting tomorrow
- filing period ends Oct 31st
- election is on Nov 11th
- new senior will be on the ERC
- the MCSG website - please submit anything you would like to be on the website to Owen
PB
- Surround Sound is on Saturday - a couple spaces left for volunteers
Pres Commission
- Resolution 001 on student involvement in college decision making - made a minor amendment and motion to approve was passed
- Campus survey - impressive response so far; analyze these results on friday
- working to facilitate communication across campus via Campus Committee Reps
- Mac voter coalition - encouraging students to volunteer on election day
- working with BLAC et al: how race and gender affected the election (will be held on election day)
Meeting adjourned at 8:07
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