{"id":8512,"date":"2018-01-24T08:58:27","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T13:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/?p=8512"},"modified":"2018-01-24T08:58:27","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T13:58:27","slug":"academic-11-1-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/academic-11-1-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic 11-1-17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MEETING START TIME: <\/strong>5:32<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ATTENDANCE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Committee: <\/strong>Chairman Temple, Senator Benedict, Senator Murray, Senator Needle, Senator Nelson, Senator Sardinha<\/p>\n<p><strong>Absent: <\/strong>Vice-Chair Morabito, Senator Findley<\/p>\n<p><strong>Non-Committee<\/strong>: Representatives from the URI Bookstore, CIO Taylor<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>DISCUSSION:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Topic 1: Bookstore survey<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Bookstore representatives joined us with their affordable materials survey<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">National Student Watch survey by On Campus Research to better understand the needs of the student body; questions include: where students prefer to shop, do they sell books, prefer printed vs online, customer experience; takes approximately 15 mins<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">National grand prize incentive- $1000 gift card, 5 $50 giftcard winners to URI students<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">How to promote (handouts, email blasts, social media), recommended that they reserve a booth in the student union<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Currently at 1,013 participants, in 2nd place, need another 450<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Last day to participate is November 3rd (can request additional days), national data incites positive changes; compare national data to URI data<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Faculty survey coming up in the Spring<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Topic 2: Our Survey<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">We should still do ours; shorter, easier to complete, with the specific questions we need answers to<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Avoid quantitative data<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Affordable Task Force bringing a bill to the floor saying <em>whenever possible, try to encourage OER<\/em>: needs more structure, needs specific instructions<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Chairman Temple to begin the process of speaking on the Faculty Senate floor, starting the conversation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Topic 3: Deans failing to respond to liaisons <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Schedule next month&#8217;s meeting when you&#8217;re actually meeting with the Dean<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Have the Dean of the College of Health Sciences speak to other deans about their responsibilities?<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Transition materials have been lacking<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Extra:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">When to meet for next semester- is subject to change<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Ongoing ordeal with the College of Nursing: student rights, implementing a meal plan in Providence, RIPTA schedule and reliability<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Faculty Senate on the 16th, 3-5pm<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Edit the affordable materials survey document by next meeting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>MEETING ADJOURNMENT TIME: 6:08<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEETING START TIME: 5:32 \u00a0 ATTENDANCE: Committee: Chairman Temple, Senator Benedict, Senator Murray, Senator Needle, Senator Nelson, Senator Sardinha Absent: Vice-Chair Morabito, Senator Findley Non-Committee: Representatives from the URI Bookstore, CIO Taylor &nbsp; 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