GSEA Board Meeting Minutes

GSEA Board Meeting Minutes

GSEA Board Meeting Minutes

Date: 7/19/2013

Location: Jammin’ Bread

Officers Present:

Lorenzo Servitje

Brittany Chataignier

Daniel Ante-Contreras

Schuyler Eastin

Ryan Sullivan

Mackenzie Gregg (via Skype)

Guests Present:

Liz Gumm

Officers Absent:

N/A

Meeting began at 11:20

  1. Agenda Item 1: Administrative
  2. Clarify/explain different GSEA officer roles
  3. Reps: Ryan doing fall GSA meeting; Mackenzie doing Winter
  4. Brittany suggested an officer transition dinner
  5. Discussion: Week One
  6. Agenda Item 2: Current funds
  7. Bank: Update on the current GSEA bank account, by Brittany: $7,000
  8. When to transfer to Schuyler? (end of summer)
  9. Uses for funds, suggested by Lorenzo:
  10. Business cards / dept logo/graphics: Cost? 50/100 per student; advertise at conferences; all voted yes
  11. Book review mini-grants (a la Friends of English publishing awards)--$50-75?: $50 (one a year per person); all voted yes
  12. GSEA essay contest—$100?: All voted no (already have enough; too much added time pressure)
  13. Summer Stipend/fellowship for reading year--$? (Sustainable funds?); talk to Devlin to see if Friends of English can do this; all voted to bring up at a later date
  14. Agenda Item 3: Fundraising
  15. Endurance for English: Lorenzo would like to lead one last time
  16. Discussion: Hand out RAships associated with this fundraisers among GSEA?
  17. Future fundraising: Thoughts for future, sustainable fundraisers?
  18. Discussion: Book sale/bake sale in the Fall
  19. Get an inventory of what professors need for RAship; use these for fundariasing (volunteering, better relationship with professor, etc.)
  20. Agenda Item 4: Peer mentoring
  21. Peer Mentor Program
  22. Liz Gumm has volunteered to structure a new Peer Mentor program
  23. Need ten volunteers
  24. Will offer job experience to Mentors
  25. Second and beyond year students will meet first year 2 times Fall; 1 time Winter and 1 time Spring
  26. Mentors will write paragraphs on their Mentee to send to Liz, who will then give them to Professor Zieger
  27. Try to get master’s students into 200, to at least meet professors
  28. Have set up by department Orientation
  29. Have a Peer Mentor Orientation Week 0
  30. ListServ: Getting incoming students on it): currently help ul\p
  31. Workshops: Workshop on Electronic citation software—endnote,etc.. (Lorenzo, Simon) / Roundtable or something on electronic research tools/organization (endnote strategies, etc…)
  32. Set up for Fall quarter
  33. Agenda Item 5: Brainstorming
  34. Parties, events, projects
  35. Discussion: Department new year part, Thursday Week 1? (Killarney’s?)
  36. Coffee meet and greet with Book/Bake sale
  37. Educate people about readerships (bring this to Department Meeting)
  38. Make day socials (so people with families can attend)
  39. Comments about what didn’t work last year
  40. Discussion:
  41. Brittany: Wishes others in the program have had
  42. Need updated prospecti, areas petition information, dissertation, M.A. portfolio, etc. on GSEA iLearn
  43. Agenda Item 6: Future GSEA Meetings
  44. How Often? Once a month
  45. Next Meeting? Beginning of Week 0; September 23rd? (Decide later)
  46. Future Agenda Items?
  47. Conclusion/Final Item: Take photo in department library for Newsletter, as requested by Professor Devlin

Meeting adjourned: 12:50

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