ASCIT Board of Directors Meeting
Minutes for 13 February 2015. Taken by Sean McKenna.
Officers Present: Cat Jamshidi, Connor Rosen, Patrick Nikong, Sean McKenna
Guests: Margaret Lee, Elliott Simon, Chris Dosen, Allika Walvekar, Alex Hartz
Call to Order: 8:04 pm
President’s Report (Cat):
-Alex Hartz discussed a proposed change of the BoC bylaws which would need to be approved by vote of the undergraduate student body. A few minor dates and wording have been fixed, but there is also a more substantive proposed change. The purpose is for the Dean to have records of dismissed cases. In doing so, the Dean of Students would be involved in some capacity in dismissals, and this capacity will be negotiated by the Dean and the BOC Chair.
-ASCIT and the BOC will work further to come up with an exact wording of the proposed changes before calling for a vote by undergrads. Furthermore, the report suggested that some BoC and CRC responsibilities could be redelegated to ASCIT, potentially having an “Honor Code” representative on the Board of Directors. This position could take responsibility for things like BARC lunches and training new faculty.The BOD will determine if these issues would be better addressed by a position on the ARC or through ASCIT.
-Elections are on Tuesday 17 February for off-campus BoC and CRC reps. We have a non-trivial number of people running for both positions!
Officer’s Reports:
V.P. of Academic Affairs (ARC Chair: Nima):
-The ARC is working with the Dean’s office on freshman peer advising for next year. More details will come in the next couple of weeks, but it should look something like the option mentoring program from two years ago, where freshmen get paired with upperclassmen who can advise them.
-The Dean’s office is setting up a fund for option clubs to put on option-specific meet-and-greet events. This fund will be usable to start up new option-specific clubs rather than for established clubs.
-You should take a prof to lunch! Get a small group of friends together and invite a professor to go have a good lunch with you. Details are here: http://arc.caltech.edu/proftolunch.php
V.P. of Non-Academic Affairs (IHC Chair: Connor):
-Waiting for Ricketts President to turn over before the new IHC starts to ramp up.
Interim Director of Operations (Sean):
-ASCIT projector/screen/speakers will be ready for use some time this week.
Treasurer (Patrick):
-Allika Walvekar requested event funding on behalf of the Society of Women Engineers for their Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day event.
Social Director (Annie):
-Absent
Secretary (Sean):
-Nothing to report.
Meeting Adjourned: 8:49
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. The next meeting will take place on February 20th at 8pm in SAC 15.