MEETING START TIME: 5:37

ATTENDANCE:

Committee: Chairman Temple, Vice-Chair Morabito, Senator Alquirtas, Senator Benedict, Senator Darche, Senator Murray, Senator Needle, Senator Nelson, Senator Sardinha

Absent:

Non-Committee:

DISCUSSION:

OER

• A lunch is taking place on October 4th from 11:30am-12:30pm, people can still sign up
• It is a way to save students money
• Talk to your Dean about it, push for OER

 

Academic Summit Committee

• Every winter they have an Academic Summit
• It discusses ways to change the world of Academics
• Innovation and Adaptability is the theme
• Anyone can do it, not just senator
• Contact Chairman Temple to do it
  • They meet once a month and are accommodating with people’s schedules
• The committee itself will focus more on the theme
  • if it is future planning or a pitch contest

 

Starfish

• Chairman Temple emailed Rob Marshall in regards to Starfish
• He might come to committee or come to public form
• They want to mainstream it

 

Classes

• The problem of classes that involve majors however because they are new they are not being counted toward the major
  • Marine Pollution does not count towards a Marine Bio major
  • Faculty urging students to take “optional classes” without letting them know that it is not going towards their major
• Why can’t Marine Bio majors take one extra class for a Chem minor

 

Other Possible Projects to Take on

• Individualistic/adaptive majors
  • Creating your own major and design it
  • Brown does it
  • UMASS Amherst does it
  • UCONN does it
  • They already do it with minors here
  • Some kind of checks and balance would be needed
• Student Employment
  • Creating a student employment committee in faculty senate
  • Do away with the 20 Hours a week rule
    • RAs already do more than that
  • Creating employment center
    • Maybe in the Union or in Roosevelt

 

Extra: Committee members should do research how other colleges have a individualistic/adaptive major

 

MEETING ADJOURNMENT TIME: 6:19