ASCIT Board of Directors Meeting Minutes for 12 October 2014. Taken by Sean McKenna.
Officers Present: Catherine Jamshidi, Nima Badizadegan, Connie Hsueh, Patrick Nikong, Annie Chen, Sean McKenna
Guests: Elliott Simon, Ellora Sarkar, Chris Dosen
Call to Order: 9:05 pm
President's Report (Cat):
Dean Dabiri has announced that he will be moving to Stanford on July 1st. The BOD will be working hard to complete "wish-list" items in the few months that remain. Contact a member of the BOD if you have suggestions for what should be finished before Dan Dabiri's term expires.
Officer's Reports:
• V.P. of Academic Affairs (ARC Chair: Nima):
Student-Faculty Conference planning is still happening.
Vice Provost's office would like to work with the ARC on experimental teaching (MOOCs), improving TQFRs and other evaluations, and scientific writing.
The Honor Code committee will present a preliminary report to the Faculty Board soon, which will be made available to students some time in the future.
ARC Frosh Reps will be selected on Wednesday. Signups will be taken down on Monday..
• V.P. of Non-Academic Affairs (IHC Chair: Connor):
We're still in a drought! Water conservation is important. Particularly, if you notice that a sprinkler is positioned incorrectly and is watering the sidewalk or something, report it to sustainability@caltech.edu.
• Director of Operations (Connie):
Club Funding is happening on Sunday the 26th. Applications are due on Monday the 20th.
• Treasurer (Patrick):
Patrick is going to get ASCIT's budget for 2014-2015 finished this week.
• Social Director (Annie):
40 People signed up for Annie's Socteam. She'll be using them as her support staff and has chosen not to set up an Executive Social Committee in addition to the Socteam.
Annie is still working with administration on setting up a timeline and financial details for Big I, but this informaiton will be distributed to the houses as soon as it's abailable.
Tom is working with the Alumni Association to set up an Interstellar event at the beginning of Decmber.
ASCIT projector and SAC Courtyard ping pong table have been approved.
• Secretary (Sean):
ASCIT now has a twitter account! Follow @ASCITTweets.
Meeting Adjourned: 10:00 pm
If anyone has questions or concerns about a section of the minutes, please email the appropriate officer. We are happy to answer any questions. The next meeting will take place on October 19th, 2014 at 9pm in SAC 15.