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I. Roll Call/Agenda
A. Welcome Back and Goals for the year (Lindsey Boylan, CGP)
Lindsey Boylan, CGP: As we begin this new year I must once again share my excitement about the work we begin tonight as an active Senate. Having met most of you in the training session on Saturday, I can already tell that this will be a productive and fruitful year.
And as a cabinet, we have been in preparation for this school year all summer long. We came together to plan out our program of work in late August. Since that time our plans have already been implemented in a variety of ways.
To name a few of the ways we have begun our year of work already:
During Orientation the members of Cabinet:
Organized our own training, the CG Info Session, the Honor Code Discussion, revitalized the accounting system for student orgs, and registered students to vote, coordinated multicultural planning including the Let Me Speak Monologues and Connecting our Community Discussions.
As School Opened members of our cabinet coordinated:
The student leadership training, a campus-wide hurricane relief response and initiated a continuing connection with Spelman to fundraise for displaced students, organizations night, the block party and Senators training.
These are just a few of the activities cabinet members have been working on thus far. We look forward to working with the members of senate for the school year.
And now, before we move to Old Business, I have the pleasure of introducing three new leaders in the Student Life Division of the college:
And as a cabinet, we have been in preparation for this school year all summer long. We came together to plan out our program of work in late August. Since that time our plans have already been implemented in a variety of ways.
To name a few of the ways we have begun our year of work already:
During Orientation the members of Cabinet:
Organized our own training, the CG Info Session, the Honor Code Discussion, revitalized the accounting system for student orgs, and registered students to vote, coordinated multicultural planning including the Let Me Speak Monologues and Connecting our Community Discussions.
As School Opened members of our cabinet coordinated:
The student leadership training, a campus-wide hurricane relief response and initiated a continuing connection with Spelman to fundraise for displaced students, organizations night, the block party and Senators training.
These are just a few of the activities cabinet members have been working on thus far. We look forward to working with the members of senate for the school year.
And now, before we move to Old Business, I have the pleasure of introducing three new leaders in the Student Life Division of the college:
II. Old Business
A. Tower Court Update / Block Party (Penny Mesen, DOOCA)
Penny Mesen, DOOCA: I hope everyone had a great weekend. Thanks to those that came this Saturday!! I hope you all had a fun time. This event took a lot of energy and planning, not only from myself and SBOG but from those that co-sponsored the event with us: Ethos, Spectrum, TZE, Phi Sigma & ZA. Make sure and give people involved in these organizations feedback on the Block Party.
In speaking of the Block Party, I also want to take this time to thank Kris Niendorf, Meri Smith, Campus Police, Special Events and Dean Lepore for all the support they gave these last few weeks.
As I mentioned on community earlier this year, SBOG is still planning to host a large scale party mid-semester. I understand that many people have questions about Tower Court and other party planning for the year. We want to make sure that such parties are a permanent fixture on campus, but in order to do this we need to ensure, foremost, students' safety. While I cannot specify dates and logistical information, know that the SBOGGIES, cabinet members and I are working with the administration towards planning that will create successful parties for this semester and the entire year.
Now that we have completed the block party, we have somewhere to start in terms of assessing what needs to be done in planning future parties. I will continue to present as much information as I can through Senate and online about the process. I hope you will feel free to email me at the "Feedback" conference on Firstclass, where you can tell me more about your experience at the Block Party or your hopes for future event planning. I am the only person who reads this conference.
Thanks again for attending SBOG's first event and I hope to see you all at our next event.
Samira Vachani, Pomeroy Senator: I really enjoyed the block party. I know Dyke ball and Tower were cancelled, I was wondering if you could tell me about the number of transports.
Penny Mesen, DOOCA: I didn't go through a debriefing
Lindsey Boylan, CGP: That is something that we will be going over in the Deans Corner. Moving on to New Business, will Michel Ballard please approach the podium to give us a SOAC update.
In speaking of the Block Party, I also want to take this time to thank Kris Niendorf, Meri Smith, Campus Police, Special Events and Dean Lepore for all the support they gave these last few weeks.
As I mentioned on community earlier this year, SBOG is still planning to host a large scale party mid-semester. I understand that many people have questions about Tower Court and other party planning for the year. We want to make sure that such parties are a permanent fixture on campus, but in order to do this we need to ensure, foremost, students' safety. While I cannot specify dates and logistical information, know that the SBOGGIES, cabinet members and I are working with the administration towards planning that will create successful parties for this semester and the entire year.
Now that we have completed the block party, we have somewhere to start in terms of assessing what needs to be done in planning future parties. I will continue to present as much information as I can through Senate and online about the process. I hope you will feel free to email me at the "Feedback" conference on Firstclass, where you can tell me more about your experience at the Block Party or your hopes for future event planning. I am the only person who reads this conference.
Thanks again for attending SBOG's first event and I hope to see you all at our next event.
Samira Vachani, Pomeroy Senator: I really enjoyed the block party. I know Dyke ball and Tower were cancelled, I was wondering if you could tell me about the number of transports.
Penny Mesen, DOOCA: I didn't go through a debriefing
Lindsey Boylan, CGP: That is something that we will be going over in the Deans Corner. Moving on to New Business, will Michel Ballard please approach the podium to give us a SOAC update.
III. New Business
A. Interview Timeline (Michel Ballard, CG VP)
Michel Ballard, College Government Vice President: All Student Organization and Appointments Committee (SOAC) appointments will be available next week. Also, the date for the Reps Training is September 27, 2005, 5pm with location TBA. Also, the SCBT reps training will be October 4, 2005, 4:15pm, location TBA. Also, All Organizations have to vote on in House Councils this week. They may be voted on bloc, but if there are objections they should be voted on individually. Don't forget to vote in your house council and to distribute lists of organizations to your constituents. (See Attachment)
Lindsey Boylan, CGP Thanks Michel, Next will Student Bursar Cortni Jones please approach the podium.
Lindsey Boylan, CGP Thanks Michel, Next will Student Bursar Cortni Jones please approach the podium.
B. Budgetary Discussion (Cortni Jones, Student Bursar)
Cortni Jones, Student Bursar: A new era for the Student Bursar's Office and the Student Organization Funding Committee, more commonly referred to as SOFC, is beginning to come to life. This exciting era is bringing a greater amount of accountability to our accounts and more transparency in our budgeting process. Through this unprecedented collaboration with SOFC and the Office of the Student Bursar we will see the best year for student organizations' funding, where they are able to reach their goals as organizations.
This year will be the first where the Student Bursar's Office and the Controller of the College's Office work in tandem to set up, manage, and monitor the Student Organization's accounts. The Controller's Office monitors all the accounts for the College, including each academic department's accounts, and therefore can provide great insight into the management of student organizations' accounts. This relationship has opened never before used lines of communication between the Controller of the College and the Student Bursar.
Currently, I have daily contact with the Controller of the College Donna Ng, Dotti Koulalis, and many other staff members from the Controller's Office. This consistent dialogue that I have had with the Controller's office has made apparent a longstanding fiscal shortfall that I am hear to discuss tonight.
Every year during the budgeting process SOFC has relied on a reversion of funds. These reverted funds are the money that is given to student organizations by SOFC, but then not fully used up by them. At the end of the year any money that has not been used by student organizations would be considered reverted to SOFC.
SOFC and the Student Bursar's Office have noticed that in recent history Student Organizations at Wellesley have been using the full amount of money given to them each year, rather than reverting any money back. Throughout this long history of the reversion miscalculation a shortfall of $63,301.70 has accrued.
To remedy this shortfall SOFC will be taking a few proactive steps in the coming year. However, I must emphasize that all organization who have applied for SOFC money and have been allocated the funds through finished budgeting processes will not have their money altered in any way. In the coming weeks you will become more familiar with the SOFC budgeting process as SOFC members and myself present about all the functions that SOFC fulfills and exactly how the budgeting process works.
In order to address this shortfall we have to institute some decisions this academic year. SOFC will be allocating a lower percentage overall to only two funding processes, the Lecture Funding and the Emergency Funding.
Lectures funding is a process through which student organizations on campus can apply for money to facilitate lectures and performance of outside groups for the greater Wellesley community, that take place during the current academic year. The Emergency Funding process is a process by which newly constituted student organizations, student organization with no SOFC allocations, and other student organizations can apply for funding for the current academic year.
Lowering the overall percentage allocated to the SOFC Lecture Funding and the SOFC Emergency Funding, will not affect the budgeting process that has already taken place and will not affect the allocation that have already have been distributed. This will only affect the funds that are available to be applied for through the SOFC Lecture Funding process and the Emergency Funding process. Student organizations' applications will be processed and read in accordance to the longstanding SOFC guideline. We encourage student organizations to continue to apply for these SOFC funds, to support their many functions on campus. We also remind students that the Student Bursar's Office is also a link to other financial resources on campus.
After discussing the fiscal shortfall with the Accountant of the College, the Controller of the College, and the Chief Financial Office of the College, I have decided that these steps are the best way to tackle this issue in a proactive manner. By being proactive, we have addressed this shortfall in the earliest stage possible, while it is still manageable. These decisions will ensure that a clean record and a fiscally responsible system are available to current and future students.
By ensuring complete integrity to the process, I am confident that the SOFC and the Office of the Student Bursar will be more accountable and more transparent to students than ever before.
Shayla Adams, ETHOS: Did the merger between the controller's office and student bursar occur to deal with this short fall?
Cortni Jones: After the person that handled the accounts retired, this gave us a great opportunity to forge a relationship with the controller's office, this how it started in the spring of last year. We established the relationship with the controller's office. The controller's office is just helping us, they do not Control the accounts. All the accounts are student run. They bring experience.
Rebecca Kapler, OMHA: Can you explain how lectures funding is going to be reduced and how it will affect students?
Cortni Jones: We just took a small percentage out to accommodate the short fall. It's hard to explain because it's all based on the student activity fee. It has not lowered that much in terms of funds. We have a lot of resources for students to apply for money so students don't have to depend on SOFC.
Ashira Greene, Claflin: When we are reporting back to our house council, what should we say?
Cortni Jones: Even though there is this shortfall, which has always been there, it only become apparent now. We are lowering the over all percentage allocated to lectures and emergency funding.
Ashira Greene: Will this subcommittee deal with other groups that are not SOFC funded?
Cortni Jones: To reiterate what she said, if someone does apply for lectures funding and does not receive funding, after we add up all of who applied we allocate it. Unless they have not filled out the application correctly, that's the only time we cut the budget. For orgs who correctly fill out the app, there will be funding given. It also depends on how many orgs apply. It's hard to tell how many will be cut in one deadline. We are reading the applications in the same way we have always read them. We do not check whether they filled out the budget correctly or not. For most groups on campus, they are allocated money in the spring so they already started out with money
Catherine Lee, Non Voting College Republicans: what if you get applications that are filled correctly but you don't have enough money?
Cortni Jones: That has actually happened; there have been shortfalls in the past.
Clara Peterson, Bates: I am confused, what factors caused the shortfall?
Cortni Jones: When we budgeted in the past, we made the assumption, that student orgs would not spend all the money that we are giving them. If I was to give Michel a certain amount of money for the year. I was expecting money back at the end of the year, but Michel was a big spender. SO we never got the money back.
Kristen Liu, Davis Scholar: Will there be a list to find alternative resources for funding?
Cortni Jones: We will have in the next couple weeks a list of resources for students. If students come and visit me during my office hours, we can find other resources. I encourage any of you who are treasurers to come speak with me.
This year will be the first where the Student Bursar's Office and the Controller of the College's Office work in tandem to set up, manage, and monitor the Student Organization's accounts. The Controller's Office monitors all the accounts for the College, including each academic department's accounts, and therefore can provide great insight into the management of student organizations' accounts. This relationship has opened never before used lines of communication between the Controller of the College and the Student Bursar.
Currently, I have daily contact with the Controller of the College Donna Ng, Dotti Koulalis, and many other staff members from the Controller's Office. This consistent dialogue that I have had with the Controller's office has made apparent a longstanding fiscal shortfall that I am hear to discuss tonight.
Every year during the budgeting process SOFC has relied on a reversion of funds. These reverted funds are the money that is given to student organizations by SOFC, but then not fully used up by them. At the end of the year any money that has not been used by student organizations would be considered reverted to SOFC.
SOFC and the Student Bursar's Office have noticed that in recent history Student Organizations at Wellesley have been using the full amount of money given to them each year, rather than reverting any money back. Throughout this long history of the reversion miscalculation a shortfall of $63,301.70 has accrued.
To remedy this shortfall SOFC will be taking a few proactive steps in the coming year. However, I must emphasize that all organization who have applied for SOFC money and have been allocated the funds through finished budgeting processes will not have their money altered in any way. In the coming weeks you will become more familiar with the SOFC budgeting process as SOFC members and myself present about all the functions that SOFC fulfills and exactly how the budgeting process works.
In order to address this shortfall we have to institute some decisions this academic year. SOFC will be allocating a lower percentage overall to only two funding processes, the Lecture Funding and the Emergency Funding.
Lectures funding is a process through which student organizations on campus can apply for money to facilitate lectures and performance of outside groups for the greater Wellesley community, that take place during the current academic year. The Emergency Funding process is a process by which newly constituted student organizations, student organization with no SOFC allocations, and other student organizations can apply for funding for the current academic year.
Lowering the overall percentage allocated to the SOFC Lecture Funding and the SOFC Emergency Funding, will not affect the budgeting process that has already taken place and will not affect the allocation that have already have been distributed. This will only affect the funds that are available to be applied for through the SOFC Lecture Funding process and the Emergency Funding process. Student organizations' applications will be processed and read in accordance to the longstanding SOFC guideline. We encourage student organizations to continue to apply for these SOFC funds, to support their many functions on campus. We also remind students that the Student Bursar's Office is also a link to other financial resources on campus.
After discussing the fiscal shortfall with the Accountant of the College, the Controller of the College, and the Chief Financial Office of the College, I have decided that these steps are the best way to tackle this issue in a proactive manner. By being proactive, we have addressed this shortfall in the earliest stage possible, while it is still manageable. These decisions will ensure that a clean record and a fiscally responsible system are available to current and future students.
By ensuring complete integrity to the process, I am confident that the SOFC and the Office of the Student Bursar will be more accountable and more transparent to students than ever before.
Shayla Adams, ETHOS: Did the merger between the controller's office and student bursar occur to deal with this short fall?
Cortni Jones: After the person that handled the accounts retired, this gave us a great opportunity to forge a relationship with the controller's office, this how it started in the spring of last year. We established the relationship with the controller's office. The controller's office is just helping us, they do not Control the accounts. All the accounts are student run. They bring experience.
Rebecca Kapler, OMHA: Can you explain how lectures funding is going to be reduced and how it will affect students?
Cortni Jones: We just took a small percentage out to accommodate the short fall. It's hard to explain because it's all based on the student activity fee. It has not lowered that much in terms of funds. We have a lot of resources for students to apply for money so students don't have to depend on SOFC.
Ashira Greene, Claflin: When we are reporting back to our house council, what should we say?
Cortni Jones: Even though there is this shortfall, which has always been there, it only become apparent now. We are lowering the over all percentage allocated to lectures and emergency funding.
Ashira Greene: Will this subcommittee deal with other groups that are not SOFC funded?
Cortni Jones: To reiterate what she said, if someone does apply for lectures funding and does not receive funding, after we add up all of who applied we allocate it. Unless they have not filled out the application correctly, that's the only time we cut the budget. For orgs who correctly fill out the app, there will be funding given. It also depends on how many orgs apply. It's hard to tell how many will be cut in one deadline. We are reading the applications in the same way we have always read them. We do not check whether they filled out the budget correctly or not. For most groups on campus, they are allocated money in the spring so they already started out with money
Catherine Lee, Non Voting College Republicans: what if you get applications that are filled correctly but you don't have enough money?
Cortni Jones: That has actually happened; there have been shortfalls in the past.
Clara Peterson, Bates: I am confused, what factors caused the shortfall?
Cortni Jones: When we budgeted in the past, we made the assumption, that student orgs would not spend all the money that we are giving them. If I was to give Michel a certain amount of money for the year. I was expecting money back at the end of the year, but Michel was a big spender. SO we never got the money back.
Kristen Liu, Davis Scholar: Will there be a list to find alternative resources for funding?
Cortni Jones: We will have in the next couple weeks a list of resources for students. If students come and visit me during my office hours, we can find other resources. I encourage any of you who are treasurers to come speak with me.
C. New Webmistress (Introduction of Christine Yang)
Lindsey Boylan: I would like to take the opportunity to introduce the new College Government webmistress.
Christine Yang: I am still working the website, there are still some glitches. If you want to email me at Christine J. Yang, please send me some suggestions.
Lindsey Boylan: This is a really great resource for communication on the website and gives a lot of details about college government. Next up we have Lynne Payson who is the Manager of the Lulu Wang Campus Center. Cabinet has been working closely with her.
Christine Yang: I am still working the website, there are still some glitches. If you want to email me at Christine J. Yang, please send me some suggestions.
Lindsey Boylan: This is a really great resource for communication on the website and gives a lot of details about college government. Next up we have Lynne Payson who is the Manager of the Lulu Wang Campus Center. Cabinet has been working closely with her.
IV. Open Discussion
A. Introduction of New Deans (John O'Keefe, Angela Carpenter, Lori Tenser)
Lindsey CGP: First John O'Keefe is our New Director of the Office of Advising and Academic Support Services. He will be overseeing the work of the Offices of the class Deans and the First year dean and academic support within the PLTC. John will also partner with Angela Carpenter (whom I will introduce in a second) to co-dean the sophomore class. John comes to us from Harvard College where he served in a number of capacities.
John O'Keefe, Dean of the Class of 2008: I am so pleased to be here at Wellesley, I have been here for a month now. It's been a great place. I have started to meet sophomores; I took this job because it involved a lot of student contact. I have a great taste of that in the last couple weeks. We are having a bit of reorganization in the division of student life. I am here for the delivery of good advice and think about what we are doing here in the academic life. If I am doing my job right students will get the services that they need but I really need your feedback and comments. I need to learn the gaps in what we have and what I can do to help personally, the last thing I'll mention, I've been talking to students in the south and I am impressed with the way the student body have reacted and really stepped up, I really want to pass this on to the students.
Lindsey Boylan, CGP: Angela Carpenter: who is also the Dean of the Class of 2008 and the Director of Harambee House during this academic year. Both John and Angela will have primary responsibility for overseeing the academic progress of one half of the sophomore class. As Director of Haramnee House, Angela will also serve as advisor to students of African descent. Angela entered Wellesley as a Davis Scholar and graduated in 1999. We are delighted that she is here to serve us at Wellesley.
Angela Carpenter, Dean of the Class of 2008, Dean of Harambee House: I am sharing with John, the sophomore class and dealing with all the issues. I coming back to Wellesley and feels really fabulous and I never wanted to leave. I went to grad school and I am especially looking forward to the way the position has been renewed. It gives me the opportunity to help the African American students here. I invite your input and you feedback. We really want to help the students learning.
Lindsey Boylan, CGP: Lori Tenser, new first year dean, comes from Brandeis University where she has served in a variety of capacities for the last 16 years. Since 2002 she has been the dean of student life, while at Brandeis she advised major student run programs.
Lori Tenser, Dean of the Class of 2009: I am so gratified to see some faces that are familiar to me. I am beginning to feel at home. I feel really welcome! My charge is work specifically with first y ear students and their whole first year experience over the course for the year about how well we help students sand help them to be successful here. I really want to gather input about how well we are dong. It will be a great opportunity to create a really solid foundation. All the best for a great year!!
Lindsey Boylan, CGP: Thank you! Next, will the DOOCA, Penny Mesen, please approach the podium to present.
John O'Keefe, Dean of the Class of 2008: I am so pleased to be here at Wellesley, I have been here for a month now. It's been a great place. I have started to meet sophomores; I took this job because it involved a lot of student contact. I have a great taste of that in the last couple weeks. We are having a bit of reorganization in the division of student life. I am here for the delivery of good advice and think about what we are doing here in the academic life. If I am doing my job right students will get the services that they need but I really need your feedback and comments. I need to learn the gaps in what we have and what I can do to help personally, the last thing I'll mention, I've been talking to students in the south and I am impressed with the way the student body have reacted and really stepped up, I really want to pass this on to the students.
Lindsey Boylan, CGP: Angela Carpenter: who is also the Dean of the Class of 2008 and the Director of Harambee House during this academic year. Both John and Angela will have primary responsibility for overseeing the academic progress of one half of the sophomore class. As Director of Haramnee House, Angela will also serve as advisor to students of African descent. Angela entered Wellesley as a Davis Scholar and graduated in 1999. We are delighted that she is here to serve us at Wellesley.
Angela Carpenter, Dean of the Class of 2008, Dean of Harambee House: I am sharing with John, the sophomore class and dealing with all the issues. I coming back to Wellesley and feels really fabulous and I never wanted to leave. I went to grad school and I am especially looking forward to the way the position has been renewed. It gives me the opportunity to help the African American students here. I invite your input and you feedback. We really want to help the students learning.
Lindsey Boylan, CGP: Lori Tenser, new first year dean, comes from Brandeis University where she has served in a variety of capacities for the last 16 years. Since 2002 she has been the dean of student life, while at Brandeis she advised major student run programs.
Lori Tenser, Dean of the Class of 2009: I am so gratified to see some faces that are familiar to me. I am beginning to feel at home. I feel really welcome! My charge is work specifically with first y ear students and their whole first year experience over the course for the year about how well we help students sand help them to be successful here. I really want to gather input about how well we are dong. It will be a great opportunity to create a really solid foundation. All the best for a great year!!
Lindsey Boylan, CGP: Thank you! Next, will the DOOCA, Penny Mesen, please approach the podium to present.
B.Campus Center Discussion (Lynne Payson)
Lynne Payson, Administrative Director of the Summer School, Director of External Events and Summer Programming: Thank you so much for having me here. Michel and I have been working on the cabinets and if it were not for Michel, we would not have had them being allocated tomorrow. Mission of the campus center: The campus center is a place to come together to plan events, to study and have fun. It's been three weeks and it's been great. I took this job in May, and we really couldn't anticipate the reaction. We certainly know that we have a lot of work to do. Real quickly we are opening some of the things, our forum which will be one of our best locations. These places will be open by our opening, October 21st. The places we are looking forward to that have opened up are Punches Alley, the Bookstore, Café Hoop, and the Coffee Bar. Real quickly, the hours of the building are really expansive; right now they are open until 12 pm and 2am on the weekend. They are 24 hours by swipe card.
One important thing to announce is scheduling. The letter I sent out about scheduling adheres to the rest of the college's policy about scheduling. We will be opening up rooms for scheduling on or after November 1. The biggest piece that we wanted to talk to you about is the Campus Center Advisory board. We have met once and all of the things that we want to expand on have been discussed.
One thing I want to tell you is that there are a lot of meeting spaces in the Campus Center.
One important thing to announce is scheduling. The letter I sent out about scheduling adheres to the rest of the college's policy about scheduling. We will be opening up rooms for scheduling on or after November 1. The biggest piece that we wanted to talk to you about is the Campus Center Advisory board. We have met once and all of the things that we want to expand on have been discussed.
One thing I want to tell you is that there are a lot of meeting spaces in the Campus Center.
C. Athletics Discussion: Student Unity Project (Sadie Stoumen, HP)
Lindsey Boylan, CGP: Thank you Lynne. Next on our agenda is something that College Government and HPC have been working on is the issue of athletics. One thing that I want to bring to your attention is the fact that we distributing a survey about athletics on campus and the status, Sadie Stoumen might come and present next week. If you are really interested in that please come and email me. Now for Dean's Corner, will Kim Goff-Crews and Michelle Lepore please address the Senate.
V. Dean of Students' Corner
A. Deans Kim Goff-Crews and Michelle Lepore
Dean Kim Goff-Crews: We have about 75 people working with us; I am in charge of looking over the whole division and thinking about long term goals. I also look at Advising, the Office of Religious and Spiritual life.
Dean Michelle Lepore: I partner with students in student leadership training. Kim Goff-Crews and I both work closely with Lindsey and with College Government. To reach either of us, Dottie Follino is our manager. We are able to work around your schedules, so if there is ever an issue that comes up you can email Dottie to meet either with us.
Dean Kim Goff-Crews: Last semester I talked about the Academic Experience Report. We took a cut at that initial information with Adele Wolfson. We created something called the Academic Support College Team. They created a report that we are actually going to give out later after some editing. In addition to that, we are looking at the first year experience this year, and beginning to look at the sophomore experience. We are also reviewing the PLTC, we have an interim director and we are looking at the multi-cultural requirement. I know many of you know we are concerned with health and wellness. We are also looking at issues of high risk behavior. We're looking on developing a sense of community. We're looking at resident life in general. We also want to enhance work on multicultural issues.
Next I want to talk about parties. The issue of transports last year made me call for a ban just so we can reevaluate the process. Basically we think we should have parties and the goal is not to have a dry campus. We just need to figure out together how to get that together. We have to make sure that these changes are student led. We are clear that we can't lift the ban until there is a change in behavior. It's also our belief that it's not the party planners fault but it's all of our responsibility.
Dean Michelle Lepore: We want you to know that the President's office hours are open every month. She loves talking to students.
First years filled out a survey and we want to follow up on that to figure out how resilient students are on this campus and how students respond to stress. The survey was a baseline for us to get to know about our first year class.
The other thing I want to talk about is the number of surveys that are published every year. Although we don't work around the ratings, we were rated as the second most diverse liberal arts college and a high number for most economically diverse. The other survey is one being done by Washington monthly about preparing students to be leaders in the world and how innovative our students are. They looked at service in students - and Wellesley was rated number one.
Dean Kim Goff-Crews: One great thing that goes along with service is how much the students here did for hurricane relief. We had at least 20 students approach us about coming to school here, and 4 came. The dean of students is also going to make contributions to faculty who are coming to teach later on as well. We want to continue our Wellesley College service outlook.
Dean Michelle Lepore: For alcohol, there are three committees:
1. Alcohol and Drug Advisory Board
2. Students leaders and Campus police working on party issues
3. At Large Student Group
I was impressed by the number of off campus people and the music, and the number of venues. That is the kind of social interaction that we want to see even more of.
As far as alcohol, there have been 7 students with alcohol intoxication, and that is high number. We need you to help us with how to deal with that.this is not just happening on our campus, more women seem to drinking in riskier ways.
Rebecca Kapler, OMHA: You mentioned the review of the Stone Center, how do people get involved with that?
Dean Kim Goff-Crews: They write a document, what some of the issues are that they have heard from students. What we are going to do, we will announce to the students how you can meet these outside reviewers to look at the Stone center.
Clara Peterson, Bates: For students to be encouraged, they want to know how their input will help with the ban be lifted.
Dean Kim Goff-Crews: As soon as we come up with a concrete plan we will get that ban lifted. I would like to get this done for the end of the year or earlier.
Samira Vachani, Pomoroy: Where can we find info for hurricane relief?
Dean Kim Goff-Crews: Joanne Murray is thinking about Wintersession
Dean Michelle Lepore: I partner with students in student leadership training. Kim Goff-Crews and I both work closely with Lindsey and with College Government. To reach either of us, Dottie Follino is our manager. We are able to work around your schedules, so if there is ever an issue that comes up you can email Dottie to meet either with us.
Dean Kim Goff-Crews: Last semester I talked about the Academic Experience Report. We took a cut at that initial information with Adele Wolfson. We created something called the Academic Support College Team. They created a report that we are actually going to give out later after some editing. In addition to that, we are looking at the first year experience this year, and beginning to look at the sophomore experience. We are also reviewing the PLTC, we have an interim director and we are looking at the multi-cultural requirement. I know many of you know we are concerned with health and wellness. We are also looking at issues of high risk behavior. We're looking on developing a sense of community. We're looking at resident life in general. We also want to enhance work on multicultural issues.
Next I want to talk about parties. The issue of transports last year made me call for a ban just so we can reevaluate the process. Basically we think we should have parties and the goal is not to have a dry campus. We just need to figure out together how to get that together. We have to make sure that these changes are student led. We are clear that we can't lift the ban until there is a change in behavior. It's also our belief that it's not the party planners fault but it's all of our responsibility.
Dean Michelle Lepore: We want you to know that the President's office hours are open every month. She loves talking to students.
First years filled out a survey and we want to follow up on that to figure out how resilient students are on this campus and how students respond to stress. The survey was a baseline for us to get to know about our first year class.
The other thing I want to talk about is the number of surveys that are published every year. Although we don't work around the ratings, we were rated as the second most diverse liberal arts college and a high number for most economically diverse. The other survey is one being done by Washington monthly about preparing students to be leaders in the world and how innovative our students are. They looked at service in students - and Wellesley was rated number one.
Dean Kim Goff-Crews: One great thing that goes along with service is how much the students here did for hurricane relief. We had at least 20 students approach us about coming to school here, and 4 came. The dean of students is also going to make contributions to faculty who are coming to teach later on as well. We want to continue our Wellesley College service outlook.
Dean Michelle Lepore: For alcohol, there are three committees:
1. Alcohol and Drug Advisory Board
2. Students leaders and Campus police working on party issues
3. At Large Student Group
I was impressed by the number of off campus people and the music, and the number of venues. That is the kind of social interaction that we want to see even more of.
As far as alcohol, there have been 7 students with alcohol intoxication, and that is high number. We need you to help us with how to deal with that.this is not just happening on our campus, more women seem to drinking in riskier ways.
Rebecca Kapler, OMHA: You mentioned the review of the Stone Center, how do people get involved with that?
Dean Kim Goff-Crews: They write a document, what some of the issues are that they have heard from students. What we are going to do, we will announce to the students how you can meet these outside reviewers to look at the Stone center.
Clara Peterson, Bates: For students to be encouraged, they want to know how their input will help with the ban be lifted.
Dean Kim Goff-Crews: As soon as we come up with a concrete plan we will get that ban lifted. I would like to get this done for the end of the year or earlier.
Samira Vachani, Pomoroy: Where can we find info for hurricane relief?
Dean Kim Goff-Crews: Joanne Murray is thinking about Wintersession
VI. Beyond the Bubble (Sophie Kim, CPLA Chair)
A. Virginia Gubernatorial Race
A Mason-Dixon poll shows that ex-VA Attorney General Jerry Kilgore (R) and Lieutenant Governor Tim Kaine (D) are in a dead heat, with Kilgore at 41% and Kaine at 40% among likely VA voters (Norfolk Virginian-Pilot).
B. California Gubernatorial Race
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) "confirmed" on September 16th that he will run for re-election.
C. Hurrican Katrina
The confirmed death toll from the hurricane has risen to 792. Ten thousand National Guard troops also left at the beginning of the week. The total military strength in the region is now 61,000 - down about 10,000 from its peak last week.
Congress has already approved $62b for the recovery effort along the Gulf Coast, but costs are expected to total $200b, if not more.
D. North Korea
North Korea has agreed to give up all nuclear arms and activities and rejoin the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
E. German Elections
Yesterday (September 18th), in a highly surprising outcome of what has been billed here as a potentially historic vote, the German electorate failed to give any party or candidate a clear majority to form a new government and choose a new chancellor.
F. Senate Confirmation Hearings
The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to convene for a vote Thursday [Sept. 22], and GOP leaders plan to begin debate on Roberts's confirmation in the full Senate on Monday, Sept. 26, with a floor vote sometime that week.
That timing would allow Roberts, if confirmed, to join the court when it begins its new term Oct. 3 (the first Monday of October every year.)
G. On this day: September 19
1881: President
James A. Garfield (20th President of the United States) succumbs
to shooting wounds and dies of complications from his wounds. He
is succeeded by Chester A. Arthur, VP.
1893: New Zealand first in women's vote
1893: New Zealand first in women's vote
VII. Cabinet Announcements
VIII. Adjourn
Total estimated time: 1 hour, 20 min
