Academic 10-16-18

November 7, 2018

ACADEMIC COMMITTEE MINUTES                                                                    DATE 10/16/18

 

MEETING START TIME: 6:20PM

 

ATTENDANCE:

Committee: Chair Morabito, Vice Chair Nelson, Senator McGrath, Senator Leach

Absent:

Non-Committee: Senator Menard

 

DISCUSSION:

TOPIC 1: Freenters

  • Phone call interview with Johnny
  • Use our existing printers, their software can comply with our printers
  • Every four pages would be an advertisement, or a coupon/deal for local businesses
  • We cannot sign off on it we can only support it with a resolution bill
  • Only do black and white, no color printing
  • Want to have an optional service to pay with your ram account or print for free with adds
  • There is no maintenance or implementation fee
  • “no fees coming to URI”
  • Willing to do a trial…one year contract
  • Doing this at 23 other universities including the University of Chicago and University of Boston
  • Want to contact the other colleges to see from their perspective about how this works
  • Use a service called print release to work towards reforestation
  • Duplex customization so that you can choose to either do single side or double sided paper
  • School can pick what kind of advertisements they want or don’t want
  • We want to work with the library or the union first before we advertise it to the different colleges

TOPIC 2: Liaisons

  • Part of student senate is working with the different elements of the school like different committees like the library, faculty senate, honor program, university calendar committee etc.
  • Hand out a sign-up sheet during general senate

TOPIC 3: Academic Intro

  • Academic calendar, bookstore, library, professors, exams, etc.
  • Getting word out about the ombuds
  • We take academic complaints
  • Final exam rights
  • Build your own major program
  • Affordable course materials
  • Donations for school supplies

TOPIC 4: Meeting with the Provost

  • Johnny is meeting with the provost on 30th of October
  • Going to talk about election day
  • Want to focus on goals and plans for the future
  • Some people have finals on Saturday
  • Professors don’t communicate course materials well enough
  • Johnny will email Paul Whitney about legislations that professors are required to inform the books store of the course materials
  • Bookstore is having a 5 dollar book sale where all the old books you can fit into a bag for 5 dollars

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MEETING ADJOURNMENT TIME: 7:12PM