Seton Hall University

Student Senate

Meeting Agenda

January 12, 2015

  1. Call to order at 6:02
  2. Invocation by Jamandre
  3. Roll Call
  4. Gallery

·  3 non SGA members

  1. John
  2. Zoe
  3. Brianna
  4. Approval of Minutes

·  Motion to approve by Gao, second by Wilson; approved 27-0

  1. Approval of Agenda

·  Motion to approve by Green, second by Syed; approved 27-0

  1. Public Forum
  2. Advisor’s Report

·  Hope everyone had a wonderful break

·  Involvement Fair is Thursday! Please volunteer to work it and encourage students to get involved on campus and with SGA.

·  Student Involvement and Resource Room is now across from the SGA Office set to open on Wednesday.

·  I will send out a list of dates for leadership workshops

·  Student Leadership Conference is March 28th

·  A link was sent out to all students if they want to sign up for Greek Life

  1. President’s Report

·  Thanks to committee chairs for their review of their committees. I will review these to make sure everyone is working on tasks and that we are moving forward collectively.

·  Thanks to Adam and Jess for working on the review of our budget.

·  Met with Kelly O’Neil from Athletics Marketing. I will be the one spearheading the Athletics Task Force moving forward, but I would like someone else to step up and take it from me. We would like to do a spirit week, co-sponsored with Athletics, to get the University behind the basketball teams. Talk to me if you are interested.

·  Today was our first outreach day. We started off strongly and got a number of people signed up for commuter hall.

·  The open forums that each constituency will hold is going to be crucial moving forward. I would like to commend the business school for their work on their own open forum so far.

·  We don’t have too much time left for this term. Now is the time to tie up all loose ends on initiatives and get tasks accomplished. This is your time to shine and to get things done to help your platform for running again.

  1. Treasurer’s Report

·  Finance Committee collected all of our data for mid-year review. We will discuss this data at our meeting this week.

·  Finance Committee will meet at 7PM on Thursdays in the UCenter.

·  Sebba (from Page)- Spring SOAC deadline is February 27th.

  1. Speaker’s Report

·  The chalkboard wall will be filled with goals the committees would like to accomplish. I will meet with committee chairs to discuss this. DO NOT WRITE ON THE CHALKBOARD

·  We will have a number of open seats. If you are interested in pursuing an open seat, speak to your committee chair, and they can recommend you if they believe you can fill a sit.

·  Let us know if you have any class conflicts so we have lateness on our record.

·  I need committee meeting times from chairs.

  1. Committee Report

·  Student Life

  1. Will be meeting with Kelly O’Neil for Athletics Task Force
  2. Initiatives will be delegated at tomorrow’s meeting.
  3. Going Green is a big initiative moving forward in collaboration with the University
  4. Extending gym hours has been brought up and options will be explored.
  5. We will also close up on some of our old initiatives

·  Academic Affairs

  1. Our committee is dwindling because of resigning senators. If you interested in academic affairs, please speak to Emily and Joey.
  2. Continuing moving forward with Honor Code
  3. Will be investigating the possibility of lengthening add/drop period for the fall semester.
  4. Open source textbooks and textbook pricing initiative is moving forward and direction is tentative on the results of the SGA survey.

·  Public Relations

  1. PR will be having a workshop 12-2 on Saturday in Stafford. We will be revamping PR and re-doing our social media.
  2. Please sign up for the involvement fair
  3. Thanks for signing up for commuter hall outreach; we will attempt to do another one next week

·  Finance

  1. Put together SGA Club and Org Organization Portfolio to show the amount of money finance committee has given out, how much money clubs have fundraised, and how much clubs have spent in the last two fiscal years. This is to make finances in SGA much easier to access.
  2. Finance Committee will be going over our mid-year review at our next meeting.

·  Village Relations

  1. Met with Fahim over break to prioritize our goals
  2. Women in Leadership event will be in McNulty on January 24th from 12-4PM. It is hosted by Village President Torpey.
  3. Old Business
  4. New Business
  5. Senatorial Courtesy

·  Business Senators – January 22nd is our Business Open Forum in Jubilee Auditorium from 7-8PM. We will be having a Hot Chocolate Outreach Day for it on Tuesday the 20th. We would really appreciate if you all could attend the open forum to show that all of SGA is available.

·  Scudieri – Everyone please answer my email/Facebook post regarding office hours. If I don’t hear from you by Tuesday night, I’ll assume your hours from last semester still fit your schedule.

·  Wilson –Jan 27, 7:30 PM 3rd floor of SOPAC, State of the Village with Village President Torpey. We should go.

  1. Announcements

·  Scudieri – Thanks to Dean Bach for our awesome chalkboard wall and new rug! Also, if you are a commuter, sign up for the Commuter Hall Access Privilege.

·  Weinman – Alpha Phi Bake sale tomorrow outside the caf. All proceeds go to American Heart Association and we will be accepting Pirate’s Gold.

  1. Adjourn at 6:38