03 November 2017

ASCIT Board of Directors Meeting

Minutes for November 3, 2017. Taken by Dana He.

Officers Present: Sakthi Vetrivel, Kavya Sreedhar, Sarah Crucilla, Alice Zhai, Dana He

Guests: Kelly Woo, Chris Dosen

Call to Order: 10:13 AM

President’s Report (Sakthi):

• Received bylaw amendment proposal to change ASCIT voting system to matched pairs.

• Marsh Fund and faculty board meeting coming up soon.

• ASCIT movie night is tonight.

• ASCIT retreat planning in progress.

• Club funding meeting on Sunday, November 5th from 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.

Officer’s Reports:

V.P. of Academic Affairs (Kavya):

• Student-faculty lunches will be during week 10.

• Software seminar will be during week 9. Thinking of teaching git.

• Creating a committee to look into curriculum revisions. This includes splitting Math 3 different parts to be more option-specific and adding CS 1 to core.

• Will discuss TQFR and option-advising improvements during ARC retreat.

• Looking into how the change in unit requirements impacted students.

• Drop day is next Friday.

V.P. of Non-Academic Affairs (Rachael):

• Not in attendance.

Director of Operations (Sara):

• Not in attendance.

Treasurer (Sarah):

• Proposal for $800 for Lloyd-Ricketts joint-house broomball event approved.

• COUCH just released article about core values. There will be a couple more articles about Bechtel house options. Seems like themed housing and quiet housing are relatively popular. Decision to be made in February.

• Got financial statement from last year; had $55,000 left over. However, there are still a lot of clubs that requested reimbursement last year that haven’t received it yet because of the lack of a point person. Needs to figure out how to transfer leftovers from last year to this year’s budget.

Social Director (Alice):

• ASCIT movie night (Thor) is tonight.

• Haunted maze went well.

• Looking into ASCIT formal venues.

• Midnight donuts will be in the next couple weeks.

Secretary (Dana):

• Nothing to report.

If anyone has any questions or concerns about a section of the minutes please email the appropriate officer. We are happy to answer any questions.

Meeting Adjourned: 10:56 AM