Meeting Minutes / Created by: Busra Ozturk
Date: 9/25/2013
Meeting Information
Name of the Meeting:
September 25, 2013 / 12-1pm / Rausch 091 /
Attendees
Name / Area/Organization / Name / Area/Organization
Jill Burrows / President
Nipul Goel / Vice President
Yiming Tan / Treasurer
Busra Ozturk / Secretary
Joyita Bhadra / Travel Grants Officer
Shashijaa Bhattarai / Historian
Cathy Bai / Communications Officer
Agenda
I. Lehigh Emails
- LTS if moving forward with the bounce-back emails, you can decide whether to opt-in
-This will last for 1 year after your @lehigh.edu address expires
-You can set up mail forwarding from the @alum.lehigh.edu address, but not the @lehigh.edu address
-Bob Wolfenden, assistant vice president of alumni relations will be at the next general meeting
II. LUMA: Pilot Program
LUMA is the Lehigh U. Mentor Association, a new pilot program from the GSS! Members will work with the GSS, Grad Life Office, and Leadership Office to participate in a pilot mentor program to better prepare graduate students for careers in academia and industry by mentoring undergraduate students, and receiving tailored leadership training. The time commitment is 2 meetings per month scheduled depending on members’ availability.
Nominate a fellow graduate student or yourself to be a member of this exclusive program using this link:
III. Jason Slipp from LTS: Mahara
Stage 1 – A repository of your work- Customized portfolio with the goals of putting all of your experiences and work in one place
Stage 2- make it look presentable
The portfolio is exportable, and they are working on how long it will live on after you graduate. Mahara is user friendly, to access go to mahara.cc.lehigh.edu. You log in with your Lehigh user name and password. In Coursesite you can automatically send a document to your Mahara repository. There will be training sessions in October. (6 total)
Graduate Professional Development ePortfolio Project is the name of the Graduate Student profile.
You can also set up privacy settings for your portfolio and each individual document if you don’t want it to be visible to everyone.
An email will be sent out in the next few days about this program.
IV. Upcoming Events
Cultural Breakfast:
Whats Brewing 9/26
TSC Philadephia 9/28
Foodie Friday 10/4
Renaissance Faire 10/6
Women’s 5k Classic 10/10
Asa packers mansion 10/12
Pumpkin Carving 10/22
Taiwanese Cultural Breakfast 10/24
Recurring Events
Tuesdays at 10
Whats Brewing
Women’s Exchange
V. Open Floor
-Reps should send out the minutes to their departments to relay information back to their programs, and should communicate both ways
Yes Plus Club – Yoga and breathing techniques – every Wednesday at 6pm in the GU
Starting Oct 3rd, 5 day retreat/leadership development to help get rid of stress –contact dtd212
-Drown Writer’s Series this Friday: forum for creative writing Humanities Center at noon
-BOGS tree planting 9-1pm – contact Chuck Fisher
-India Club - Garba Night on Oct 19th in Lamberton from 10pm-2am
Rahil: TAs and RAs are complaining about being forced to work more than 20 hours a week.
- We should discuss vacation days, weekends, maximum hours
- There should be some kind of guidelines for TAs and solutions for exams/hw
Discussion / Commitments / Responsible
Follow-up previous commitments / Responsible / Status
Future Meeting: October 9, 2013
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