Cultural 9-18-17

Date: 9.18.17

 

Chair: St. Amand

 

Committee Members Present: Creese, McWeeney, My Vu, Howard, Alquirtas

Committee Members Absent: N/A

Non-Committee Members: N/A

 

Meeting Start Time: 5:00PM

 

*discussing Columbus Day bill

-last general meeting it was discussed that the bill may be too emotionally charged

-looking to reword 6th and 7th “whereas” and add “members of the URI community have expressed a belief that” as opposed to stating that the emotion is a fact

-maybe delete 7th “whereas” as it is seen as just a rewording

 

-bill as a whole—if it gets passed, could do another poll – “how do you feel about it?” and add a scale 1-5, physical proof for faculty senate

 

-proposed: tabling bill to put out poll before

 

-ideally: educational programming informing people why Columbus Day is “bad”

-Nicolette will speak to Riley

 

*director of MSC

-no more Diversity Week—so no longer cultural planning

 

*dean of College of Business

-already doing Ted Talk, sent email to Nicolette explaining how cultural should not do their own and join his

-Nicolette responded, detailing that our Ted Talk is about mental health awareness (whereas theirs is about business)

 

-Ted Talk speaker ideas

-Sheldon Whitehouse

-separate professors

-depression author

 

 

Meeting Adjourned: 5:25pm