Harvard Chan Student Association Meeting with Dean Williams02/14/17

  1. Thank you for the pro-activeness of administration!
  2. Marshall Gants to do a launching event around the sharing and understanding of public narrative and social movement. This would set us up for how we can go through a set of workshops/smaller activities
  3. As an institution, they can not purposely engage in partisan politics, but many of these issues are non-partisan.
  4. Due to the shortness of our programs, a teach-in might be better placed on a day where class in not cancelled (i.e. on a Saturday).
  5. Checking in on updates from previous proposals
  6. Mental Health Counselor
  7. Had a great meeting with UHS and Nancy Turnbull/Amy
  8. One challenge is the physical facility—use an office here when needed as a solution
  9. And would meet some need
  10. Currently in talks with a company that does this kind of work for a pilot with us in the space we have identified.
  11. The law school just recently hired a part-time person housed at the health school but over looked by the mental health services.
  12. Atrium Portraits
  13. Coming up with what that is important to hold
  14. Have all of the current proposals and the diversity of them
  15. This task-force is hoping to narrow down to a few options before May 4th
  16. DrPH funding
  17. Question: Could there be a task-force set up?
  18. Academic Dean Karen Emmons to contact
  19. Study Period
  20. Good next steps to progress the issue
  21. Pull out the calendar and calculate the number of teaching days that would be compromised
  22. Would it be at the end of the quarter, or semester?
  23. Most likely semester
  24. Must be headed by Nancy Turnbull
  25. Must take to Committee for Academic degrees and another group to review the impact of the education and instructional requirements with the faculty council
  26. This would be a big chain in getting this completed, including the registrar offices
  27. Give a one page proposal in an effort to eliminate as few class days as possible
  28. How would this impact the ongoing discussion around shortened class blocks?
  1. Advisor/Advisee relationships
  2. MPH have a particular problem because it is often outside the scope of the professors expertise
  3. This is especially true in the last 4 years in academic changes
  4. Would need to be re-tasking the academic chairs
  5. SM students have better relationships if they are able to find and keep an advisor, which is sometimes an issue
  6. Through the cohesion, accountability and expectations from the department chairs to the faculty in improving quality of advising
  7. Indices to be tracked at each level
  8. Work in progress, part of overall
  9. In new programs, advisors do not sometimes have a grasp on the class requirements or what was needed academically
  10. The middle levels needs to be the academic coordinatorsfaculty directly involvedfull faculty
  11. For degree auditing issues and the more technical issues, work with the academic coordinator. For more career or research issues, work with the advisor.
  1. Dean’s Dinner
  2. Proposals
  3. Community Engagement Concerns—worked in program requirements/course requirements
  4. Cross Registration Issues—Short and Long Term solutions
  5. Technical: Increasing bandwidth
  6. Information: more clear communication
  7. There is a new cross registration portal that will be ready for the fall which should help with some of the transactional issues
  8. Plan of action when political issues affect our students
  9. Specifically, unable to come back, unable to finish research, those who lose funding (EPA/CDC), mental health impact, students who want to be engaged
  10. What we want it to look like
  11. Possible to also talk about tying up loose ends and update of where we are.
  12. The room set up—can we do round tables?
  13. Open with update of progress that has been made
  14. Need-Based Scholarships Proposal
  15. See posted below these notes on the website