{"id":3813,"date":"2015-02-23T15:44:56","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T20:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/?p=3813"},"modified":"2015-02-23T15:44:56","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T20:44:56","slug":"soarc-2-23-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/soarc-2-23-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"SOARC 2-23-2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Start time:<\/b> 3:00 pm<\/p>\n<p><b>Present:<\/b> Amanda Rode, Samantha King, Brianna Montecalvo, Nina Succi, Amanda Stikeman, Ashley Spillman, Dan Bertel, Eric Wang<\/p>\n<p><b>Absent:<\/b> None<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b><b>Doc Opps<\/b><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">\u00a0Representative: Ellis (VP)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>No real meetings yet<\/li>\n<li>10 members<\/li>\n<li>Elections were held to standards<\/li>\n<li>Purpose: to prepare students looking to go into medical careers<\/li>\n<li>Goals: provide MCAT preparation as well as set up internships and bring speakers to campus, contact hospitals to create shadowing and internship opportunities<\/li>\n<li>Other notes: made up of primarily younger undergrads so the group can continue to grow and not dissolve after seniors graduate<\/li>\n<li>Recommendation: Unfunded Organization\n<ul>\n<li>vote: 8-0-0<\/li>\n<li>need to attend meeting on: March 4th<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b><b>URI Persian Student Association<\/b><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Four student representatives came<\/li>\n<li>Haven\u2019t been able to establish a set meeting time yet because of the inclement weather<\/li>\n<li>14 undergrad member and 7 graduate members.\n<ul>\n<li>still recruiting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Elections were not held to standards<\/li>\n<li>Purpose: cultural organization hoping to represent the large Persian population on campus.<\/li>\n<li>Goals: Hope to educate the campus about Persian culture. Currently working on a documentary screening as a programming. Looking to hold programs for Persian holidays.<\/li>\n<li>Recommendation: Funded Organization\n<ul>\n<li>vote: 8-0-0<\/li>\n<li>need to attend meeting on: March 4th<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b><b>Volunteers Around the World<\/b><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Two student representatives came<\/li>\n<li>Part of a larger organization. The umbrella organization just coordinates locations to go to. They receive no outside funding from the umbrella organization.<\/li>\n<li>23 members.<\/li>\n<li>Elections were held to standards<\/li>\n<li>Purpose: to enhance community infrastructure through improved education and access to more advance medical treatment with a student run clinic<\/li>\n<li>Goals: Send students around the world to set up medical clinics<\/li>\n<li>Recommendation: Unfunded Organization\n<ul>\n<li>vote: 8-0-0<\/li>\n<li>need to attend meeting on: March 4th<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Actively Moving Forward\n<ul>\n<li>President came as representative<\/li>\n<li>Part of a larger organization\u00a0 they receive funding from<\/li>\n<li>10 members<\/li>\n<li>Elections were held to standards\n<ul>\n<li>only have a treasurer and president<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Purpose: support group for struggling students as well as perform community service<\/li>\n<li>Recommendation: Unfunded Organization\n<ul>\n<li>vote: 8-0-0<\/li>\n<li>need to attend meeting on: March 4th<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Adjourned:<\/b> 3:35 pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Start time: 3:00 pm Present: Amanda Rode, Samantha King, Brianna Montecalvo, Nina Succi, Amanda Stikeman, Ashley Spillman, Dan Bertel, Eric Wang Absent: None &nbsp; Doc Opps \u00a0Representative: Ellis (VP) No real meetings yet 10 members Elections were held to standards Purpose: to prepare students looking to go into medical careers Goals: provide MCAT preparation as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5,7,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minutes","category-soarc","category-soarc-minutes-2015"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}