Funding Requests—Nanhao Chen
- On behalf of the Interfaith Alliance Riley Breshnahan is asking for $200 the amount of funds allocated to new clubs per our constitution.
- Passed
President’s Report—Joseph Gearon
- Received 30 responses on our survey where we polled students on what they liked and disliked about Transy
- 9 people did not like the food
- Others claim that administration did not listen to students
- Has to do with advertising, SGA to student body maybe room for improvement
- University may focus too much on athletics
- T not aligned with Haupt
- What can SGA do?
- Facilitate more discussion between students and administration
- Help students to know about Faculty-Student Lunches, especially with President Carey
- Increase transparency with SGA
- Updates on administrative decisions
- Make administration care about students
Academic Affairs—Lauren Gilbert
- GE Subcommittee has been divided into 9 separate committees
- Dates in FEN basically set
- Looking into ideas on FEN, FYS, FYRS
- Working on adjectives and GOALS for future honor code
- Dr./Dean Bryan wants a copy of this by the end of the semester!
- Checking into changing “winter term” to “spring term”
- Interlibrary loans – confusion with how it works, want to explore improving it
- Faculty Lunches have been scheduled until for rest of the semester
- This is for everyone! Open to all students!
- Great opportunity for students to get to know faculty especially if they are not in their major
- Senator Katie Tucker
- Proposal to get Senior Seminar classes moved to Fall term (as permitted)
- Senior Seminar classes write a Thesis paper
- Graduate Schools request a writing piece from the student
- Senior thesis for graduate applications would be able to be submitted along with graduate application
- Procedure: We vote -> Send to CPC, they deal with it
Student Affairs—Mark Sirianno
- Senator McKenzie Miller will be maintaining Keurig in library
- Will provide options such as, tea, hot chocolate and coffee
- Senator Jocelyn Lucero will be looking into the logistics of purchasing a pool table for campus-wide use
- Working on getting grills in back circle
- Purchasing one now may not be best idea due to colder weather
- Addressing intramurals
- working on getting Intramural cup back – organization who won most titles received cup
- Addressing the fact that kitchen access for students living in Forrer is nonexistent
