Academic 4-25-18

MEETING START TIME: 4:00PM

 

ATTENDANCE:

Committee: Chair Morabito, Vice Chair Nelson, Senator Barnes, Senator Newbery, Chair Alquirtas, Dan Bertel

Absent:

Non-Committee: Senator Bagley

 

DISCUSSION:

TOPIC 1: Faculty Senate

  • They used to sing
    • It was weird
  • Indigenous peoples day
    • Faculty senate pushed it through but Dooley will not sign it because it is “state level and he has no authority over it”
    • Do we want to fight it?
      • Go through to the state
        • Write a letter
        • Trying to get everyone involved, the more signatures the better
      • Lowkey mad it wasn’t brought up sooner
  • Third thing talked about
    • Information on subtopic

TOPIC 2: Final Exam Rights

  • Go to the library and hand out cookies, coffee, tea and exam rights
    • Information on subtopic
  • Library planned a similar event but we still have our event on Wednesday may 2nd
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  • Talking to tree nuts and peanuts in the baked goods
    • Information on subtopic

TOPIC 3: Student Assistant to the OMBUD

  • Payed position
    • Information on subtopic
  • Handles issues too big for academic affairs committee to handle
    • Brianna Bennedict, former senator, taking about it in open forum
  • Former chair temple, chair Morabito, president wilding, and former senator and assistant to the OMBUD Brianna Bennedict
    • Information on subtopic
  • Interviews were already supposed to be done
    • Lucky for us OMBUD doesn’t know their own rules so they have not noticed

TOPIC 4: JOHNNY SHOULDN’T DONATE BLOOD

 

Extra:

This was the last meeting of this semester. Meeting times for next semester will be discussed a later point.

 

MEETING ADJOURNMENT TIME: 4:35PM