Attendance: Anderson, Boutmy, Cicero, Hetland, King, Patterson, Rode, Solomon, Yip, Uy, Zawatsky

5:00

President:

• Printed agendas-order based on importance
• Attended DIVE RI and hair show
  • Both huge success!
• Students Rights and Responsibilities: making progress
• JCAP: academic plan for next 5 years (2016-2021)
  • Want Student Senate to host Student Summit to get students voices heard
  • Will discuss fund allocation, how professors are evaluated, etc
  • Wednesday April 22 from 3:30-5 in Atrium 1
  • Free food, RSVP required
  • Will also discuss research, equity and diversity, advanced learning, globalization, etc.
  • Want 40 to 50 students
    • What student groups?
      • Big thinkers
      • Marine science society
      • All academic
      • College Democrats and Republicans
    • *Spread the word!
  • Earth Week
  • Exec has approved allocating funds to allow them to play Wall-E

VP:

• Want each committee to take the new senators and teach them pertinent things about Senate-introduce them to main faculty, show them around office, etc
• Welcome Day Booths are coming up

SOARC:

• Met with committee yesterday
• Have one new group going on for tomorrow
• Budgets are still frozen for several groups and they have been contacted
• NASO and Dressage know they are at risk for de-recognition if they do not respond
• Working on making advisors in her committee to keep Senate more informed
  • Will assign a certain committee to be a liaison for certain groups to allow Senate to be more active with student groups
  • Will facilitate more communication
  • Will work on categories in upcoming weeks once committee is established

Finance:

• Handbook changes in the fall
• Budget is big deal for second semester
• Want to present Finance Handbook before the end of the semester and have it voted on then so student groups will have it for the summer
  • However, if you don’t have a 2 term chair, you can’t write it
• Need to change Senate culture regarding knowledge of general senators
  • Impacts how they vote on bills regarding student tax money
  • Workshop needed to help introduce senators to what financing is about
  • Every senator should know a baseline about Finance and SOARC
    • Want to make general Senate more accessible to general community
  • Have $30,000 in tax funds to work with

Treasurer:

• Cosponsorship money: $5,700
• SAS wants $300-350 for Earth Week
• Stipends are out

Academic:

• UAC are working on academic modeling
• Academic Calendars have come to agreement on formatting and structure
  • Nobody liked the old format and categorizing
• Provost canceled last meeting to go to JCAP instead
• Two priorities for upcoming year are CELS and Arts and Sciences
  • Need liaisons more accountable
• Also want to work on approving and categorizing more academic groups on campus

CIO:

• Need transition material from President (Maynard), DOC, DOM, and Cultural
• Want to work on some last goals before end of year
  • Big revamp of website

Cultural:

• Rhody Paws
  • Will give donations to Puppy Raisers
• Diversity Awards are coming up
• DIVERI was great
• CVSA is having an events week
• SAGE is having an event coming up
• Holocaust Remembrance Week is the week of April 16th

 

Campus:

• Working on RhodyRama
• Want to work with Dining Services to improve events for students and better accessibility
• Next year, want to work with Housing, Dining, etc to see if they have ideas to improve the campus

DOC:

• Will be promoting Rhody Paws
• Want a retractable poster to promote Welcome Days, etc.
  • Working on design