BE Board:Meeting minutes/11/03/2005

{|
 * - valign="top"
 * width=740px class="MainPageBG" style="border: 5px solid #2D9258; color: #000000; background-color: #FFFFFF"|


 * Date - 11/03/05
 * Location - 56-614
 * Time - 12-1pm

Coordinators

 * Welcome new first year representative - Sean Clarke
 * Report on faculty retreat discussing Graduate Program Review
 * Appreciated student feedback
 * Faculty were receptive
 * Presentation is linked to from the wiki
 * Three major points: TA requirement, Curriculum(400), Career oriented mentoring
 * Faculty concerns:
 * Funding for graduate program if it were to expand
 * Scope of the graduate program verses depth
 * Graduate students will be sent a summary of the meeting in the near future
 * Student Directory
 * Dalia is willing to help and supply the necessary information
 * Dalia will also investigate the legal implications
 * New event fund
 * Extra money left over from last year, also GSC may give us additional funding for community and interdepartmental events
 * Objective of this fund is to encourage people to be inventive with regard to new activities
 * Consider including such a fund in the budget next year, extra funds will suffice for this year

First year representative

 * No issues, request cleaning services from administration for first year offices
 * 420/430 workload is intensive

Community service chair

 * Thanksgiving food drive
 * Nov 1-15th, 42 items so far, goal is 200
 * Spread the word, person to person contact is probably best
 * Report on community service event 1, Nov 19th
 * Good initial interest, but many people dropped out at the last minute
 * Very easy to get to, had fun
 * Future projects
 * Christmas in the city - toy drive
 * Bread and Jams - Sign up for Jan 22, 2-5pm

Treasurer

 * Spent approximately 25% of our budget

Academic representatives

 * Update on annual survey
 * Still in the process of analyzing the numbers
 * Final data will be emailed to the board
 * Feedback on a student directory was generally positive to include email and lab
 * Further details at the next meeting
 * ISS
 * Nov 18th, Zach Schiver
 * Additional ideas or contacts are always appreciated
 * Retreat
 * First meeting, Nov 7th
 * Jay Han is in charge this year
 * To be held the weekend of March 25th in Hyannis on Cape Cod

Social chairs

 * TGIF's
 * Brewery Tour with Al went well
 * Fall BBQ also a success
 * Future events: Nov - Game night, Dec - No TGIF
 * Other ideas: Looking into F1 racing, but we may need to team with another department or the off campus office to help with the cost.

Diversity representative

 * Carribean lunch - Thur Nov 17th
 * Diversity speaker - Dec 14th, Christopher Jones

Athletic chairs

 * Shirt designs will soon be on the web for voting
 * All Fall sports have started except for Pistol
 * T-shirt ordering
 * requesting additional funding from the board in order to outfit all current IM players with new shirts
 * proposal and detaiils at the next meeting for 45-60 shirts

UG curriculum representative

 * Curriculum chat + meeting with Linda/David
 * Drew speaking Nov 3rd, 6-7:30pm in 56-614 about BE 180
 * Linda and David are interested and willing to sit down with the board and other people who are interested to talk about the curriculum, an issue of scheduling
 * (Bio)ethics requirements
 * Talked about this at the retreat
 * Starting a group to discuss and attempt to spearhead a movement

GSC representative

 * Grad ring event
 * Event with ChemE, sponsored by the grad rat group
 * The Academic, research, and careers committee - conducted a survey and found people were interested in getting more information about ethics, attempting to develop some sort of initiative
 * Advising survey, want to discuss with department heads about how best to advise students, including conflict resolution
 * }