BE Board:Meeting minutes/11/03/2005

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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