BE Board:Meeting minutes/3/02/2006


 * Date: 3/2/06
 * Location: 56-302
 * Time: 12pm

Coordinators

 * Q and A panel
 * After lunch next Friday March 17th, 1:30ish
 * 2 per year in general
 * Board will send out email to student
 * Faculty candidates
 * Four candidates will be interviewing with the division
 * No specific area for the faculty search
 * BE Board will summarize student comments and provide specific feedback to the division
 * Everyone shoud try to make it to the lunches and seminars, the more comments the better
 * Visiting committee
 * Every two years, a committee comes to visit the department,
 * The committe provides the deparment and MIT with constructive feedback
 * April 19th anad 20th ,
 * The board will put together a panel of undergraduate and graduate students
 * Need to give concise, specific feedback and will probably rely on the feedback from the surveys over the past year
 * Website
 * Old BE Board website has been redirected to the Wiki pages
 * any problems with redirect let Amy know
 * Directory information has been received from Dalia and will appear on the site in the near future
 * Board will send an email to students about change in pages

First Year Representative

 * Recruitment
 * Any recommendations from the upper classman should be sent to Sean
 * Recommendations: don’t take them in the basement
 * A non-official party is currently being planned
 * Dentistry
 * Article in the GSC magazine, most recent
 * BU dental has had bad reviews so far because it can be time consuming and poor scheduling
 * GSC has a subcommittee, but it seems to be really slow going

Diversity Representative

 * Russian lunch next Tuesday the 7th
 * April 12th – seminar from Harvard Diversity Provost
 * Interlab lunch last month went well

Community Service Chair

 * Msrathon information is on the wiki if people are interested
 * Nothing currently on the calander

Treasurer

 * Money is fine, updated budget on the wiki
 * New funds – about 800 if people have ideas

Academic Representatives

 * Retreat is shaping up a lot more
 * Want input for Monday night dinner discussions
 * One page of background to get discussions started
 * Every group will then synthesize some sort of cartoon or list to present the following day after the poster session, before lunch
 * More topics on the more light hearted side
 * At the meeting we discussed topics list and assigned things to people
 * Study breaks
 * more?, 2 per semester?
 * Need an additional $100 in order to pull it off
 * It would be nice to do the pre-quals one
 * Industrial seminar series
 * Still waiting on responses from people they have been contact
 * Retreat Speaker – CEO of Greenfield, using algae to make energy

Social Chairs

 * Retreat
 * Beach outing with various sports
 * Trail outing
 * Running lead by roger Kamm
 * Snowriders
 * Not many people are signed up, but lots of people are going
 * Skating on Saint Patricks day, March 17th – potential to try curling

Athletics Chairs

 * Spring sports getting under way
 * Softball for sure – probably only one team, only about 20 people at the moment
 * Interest in squash, trying to setup some sort of tournament through IM
 * KFC Hockey league last game on Sunday
 * Shirts are still being handed out – email Dave if necessary

UG Curriculum Representative

 * Cirriculum chat – Forest and Doug – went very well
 * Another one with Linda talking about how the curriculum works together

GSC Representative

 * Meeting last night – new president
 * ARC academinic and research committee – award nominations are now open, if we want to start recognizing students
 * Task force on diversity – Diversity report is on the GSC website
 * New residents hall
 * graduate students upset about lack of input
 * ashdown being turned into under grad dorm
 * if you want to get involved check the GSC website
 * Harvard/MIT dance party on March 19th on the Harvard campus (Dudley house)

Other Comments

 * Newletter – GSC section