ASCIT Board of Directors Meeting: VPSA
Minutes for May 13, 2019. Taken by LC Chen.
Officers Present: Sakthi Vetrivel, Erika Salzman, Sarah Crucilla, Varun Shanker, Alice Zhai, Dana He, Rachel Sun
Guests: Arushi Gupta, LC Chen, Yuying Lin, Irene Chang, Tom Mannion, Kevin Gilmartin, Joe Shepherd
Call to Order: 12:20
President’s Report (Varun):
- New FCC nomination process sent out last week
- Orientation meeting on Friday with Kristin
- Met with student program director about getting students involved with lecture series, special speakers, etc.
- Two complaints about budgets – fixed
- The Tech funding will remain the same
Officer’s Reports:
V.P. of Academic Affairs (Arushi): - Appointed new secretary and at large reps last week
- Met with math faculty two weeks ago
- Student faculty lunches on May 22nd
- Published a new Research FAQ page on ARC website (Unit limit exceptions are allowed for research – Gilmartin)
- Computational requirement proposal
- Next week: faculty board appointments
- ASCIT teaching awards announced yesterday
- Deans meeting tomorrow V.P. of Non-Academic Affairs (Sarah):
- Dabney Interhouse – no transports
- BDR and Fleming Interhouse coming up
- Retreat updates – think about interactions between freshman on campus
- Case of Concern process improvements
- Put a FAQ paper in freshman orientation packet (e.g. housing, rotation, etc.) Director of Operations (Rachel):
- Club equipment space Treasurer (Yuying):
- Copy of MOU (good for record)
- Unclear wording about ASCIT membership: OGC Social Director (Irene):
- Good attendance at movie night Secretary (LC):
- 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: 12:59
Respectfully submitted,
ASCIT Secretary