Undergraduate BE Board:Minutes - 1/15/08 Minutes
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BE Undergrad Board Minutes, January 15, 2008
Overall: want a laid-back BE board that has fun activities and still helps each other out, less focus on speakers/academics since Grad students and faculty handle that aspect rather well
- Elections:
- Held at kickoff on Tuesday February 12th
- Voting through Friday February 15th in BE office *if Kathy okays it
- Platform due by Wednesday February 6th, will extend to Friday February 8th
- Positions:
- President – faculty go-to person, runs the board and BE meetings
- VP – a little of everything, an outside contact person for non-board members
- Secretary – emails, minutes, get rooms, make agendas
- Treasurer – order food, budget events, handle t-shirts, money stuff
- Biweekly meetings (1st and 3rd Tuesday of every month?):
- Start formal with structured agenda to take care of business
- End laid back hangout with course 20 people and eat food
- Big/Lil Alternative = BE Associate Advisors: *run idea by Doug
- Juniors volunteer to help advise sophomores
- Email juniors and get enough to match advisors
- Assoc advisor responsibility = be available to give advice, spend time/money on advisees
- List of assoc advisors on BE wiki with info about them
- Ideas:
- Dinner – table with advisor, assoc advisor, advisees
- Tutoring:
- Lowkey/informal like TA extended office hours
- Premeds probably volunteer
- Post individual tutor times and classes tutored on wiki
- Social Ideas:
- Paintballing
- Candlepin bowling
- IM team
- Mingle with other courses (6 or 9)
- Sports versus other courses (11)
- Movie Night
- Study break to hang out t-shirts
- Publicity:
- keep within course 20 (no posters)
- write on chalkboards in core classes
- have professors/board announce in course 20 classes
- email BE lists
- BE Lounge:
- We approve
- Add hammock
- Artwork
- Lots of space to work and lounge as well
- Food stocked?
- Look forward to pick out furniture
- Cork board for BE announcements and calendar of events
- Lots of outlets for laptop plugs throughout the lounge
- NO formal tutor room
- BEMS share storage space with us?
- To Do:
- Mike set up link to website/wiki
- Mike add elections positions+roles to wiki
- Dawn check w/ Emilienne on Tshirts
- Dawn check voting method with Kathy
- Dawn ask Kathy to put link on BE homepage to Undergrad BE page http://openwetware.org/wiki/Undergraduate_BE_Board
- Marta run BE Assoc Advisor idea by Doug
- Marta email about elections
- Neha think about kickoff event
- Next Meeting: Tuesday January 22nd, 7:30pm 3rd floor building 56 (Mike buy food)
- Welcome back kickoff
- Senior Dinner
- BE Tshirts
- Mission Statement
- UG on curriculum board (so not hosed, no units hiding, etc)