Undergraduate BE Board:Minutes - 3/3/08 Minutes

BE UG Board Meeting March 3, 2008 CoffeeHouse 3rd Floor Student Center 10:00pm

Attendance: Emilienne, Marta, Bernice, Emzo, Dawn, Maryelise, Mike, Anna


 * 1) Welcome and Attendance
 * 2) Tshirt Update
 * 3) *12 extra shirts
 * 4) *$1522 shirts
 * 5) *165 shirts
 * 6) *T-shirt pick up policy:
 * 7) **pick up shirt within 2 weeks of study break or contact us
 * 8) **final mailing address confirmed today
 * 9) **don't use techcash, easier to use check/cash
 * 10) **check about surcharge for techcash
 * 11) **Bernice will look up techcash and reimbursement logistics
 * 12) Joint Study Break March 17 6-8pm - assign tasks
 * 13) *Ice Cream (+utensils), Toppings, Order Pizza, Get Room Key, Email to besb and grad students, Music, Pop (fresca), Tshirt Distributions, Money Collecting, Other?
 * 14) *grad students will take care of the ice cream
 * 15) BE UG Curric - decide members
 * 16) *2008: Sonal Sodha
 * 17) *2009: Emilienne
 * 18) *2010: Renuka Ramanathan
 * 19) Associate Advising update
 * 20) *write emails to AA's, to advisors, to the sophomores
 * 21) *decide on an amount of money
 * 22) **$10 per advisee
 * 23) **take students out just once a term
 * 24) **have some event in April
 * 25) Summary of Meeting with Advisors
 * 26) *graduate student spring grad school advising event
 * 27) **still have one this term for juniors (end of April)
 * 28) *BME Minor/BE-BMES
 * 29) **no representative on our board
 * 30) **still can invite them to our events
 * 31) *Course 20 Website
 * 32) **maybe have two separate things for core and restricted electives
 * 33) **only survey course 20 students for restrictive electives
 * 34) ***more focus on class experience, not teaching
 * 35) **core classes have more emphasis on teaching, more thorough
 * 36) **more work on this over the summer, get data for seniors graduate
 * 37) *CPW (Cathy is our contact. April 11 2-4pm)
 * 38) **we can make the poster
 * 39) Bulletin Board - complete before Study Break
 * 40) Upcoming BE Prospective Faculty Luncheons
 * 41) *Wed March 19, 2-3pm Location TBA
 * 42) *Fri March 21, 2-3pm Location TBA
 * 43) **Board meeting attendees
 * 44) Other
 * 45) Next Meeting = March 17 5pm?