{"id":7315,"date":"2017-10-23T13:41:06","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T17:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/?p=7315"},"modified":"2017-10-23T13:41:06","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T17:41:06","slug":"academic-9-27-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/academic-9-27-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic 9-27-17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MEETING START TIME:<\/strong> 5:49<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>ATTENDANCE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Committee:<\/strong> Chairman Temple, Vice-Chair Morabito, Senator Benedict, Senator Darche, Senator Murray, Senator Needle, Senator Nelson, Senator Sardinha<\/p>\n<p><strong>Absent:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Non-Committee:<\/strong> Senator Keene<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>DISCUSSION: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Starfish<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Told Chairman Temple a starfish representative will contact him by the end of the month<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Next steps on Indigenous peoples day<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">October 6th meeting max of 3 people at 1:00pm in the fine arts center<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>OER<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Talk to Deans and advertise for it<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>OMBUD<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Met Thursday\n<ul>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Working on the website<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Looking into faculty bylaws to see where it may say they have to meet with liaisons<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Japanese and flagship program\n<ul>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">The school allegedly advertised a Japanese major, however now they are no longer offering it<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">IEP was bringing it to URI and they recruited a lot of people<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">URI has to hire a new professor to write up a new major so it would take 5 &#8211; 6 years so it would not be given to the current students<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">The students have spent time and money on something that is no longer happening<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Now there is a minor<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">In the fall of 2015 they were recruiting<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Send all evidence to the student OMBUD, Senator Benedict<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jobs on campus<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Possible suit rental system for interviews<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">20 hour limit<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Possibly rules are being ignored\n<ul>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Different pay grades\n<ul>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Some get raises after working for a semester while others work for two years and still make minimum wage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Better examples are needed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Faculty senate committee or student employment center\n<ul>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Advocating student rights<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Students would be able to sit on the faculty committee<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Academic Committee is leaning towards the idea of having a center<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>MEETING ADJOURNMENT TIME: <\/strong>6:14<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEETING START TIME: 5:49 &nbsp; 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