General Council

Meeting Location:Alumni Hall

Saturday, October 7th, 2017 (Morning)
Call to Order:
  1. Introductions:
  2. Roll Call
  3. Everyone in attendance
  4. New Business:
  5. UPUA Report: Karafilis
  6. Four Committees:
  7. Academic Affairs:
  8. Course schedule module
  9. Working with the associate dean for learning, further implementation of educational resources university wide
  10. Facilites: installing benches to shuttle stops, creating a map, wifi map that will highlight to IT department, incwifi access across campus
  11. Student life:
  12. UP police department to increase security cameras in the Halls
  13. Stand for State video at last home football game, combating sexual assault
  14. In means of extending Lion Food Bank and Professional clothing closet
  15. Gov Affairs:
  16. Zac Robertson is the next executive director
  17. Opposed amendments were accepted
  18. PSU votes week was this past week
  19. 209 participants but those numbers are still being finalized
  20. Deadline for voting registration, Tuesday October 10th
  21. GPSA Report: None
  22. CFB Report: Taylor
  23. Role of the board and what each representative actually represents
  24. Discussed who would be on the steering committee for CFB
  25. Appointing Duncan and John Saad to the steering committee
  26. CAPS fee was implemented last year, $4 per person
  27. Discussed software and some staffing they are trying to do across the commonwealth
  28. CCSG Budget, important that the CFB can have oversight on how our money is being spent
  29. Reporting procedures, how that info is supposed to come back to CFB
  30. Are we spending enough in certain areas?
  31. Questions? None
  32. Faculty Senate Report: DeBellis
  33. DACA
  34. Greek Life: updates
  35. Board of Trustees Report: Hoeschele
  36. Introduction:
  37. Student trustee on the BOT
  38. Commonwealth is very important to Penn State
  39. Actions
  40. Approval of university general budget
  41. Approval of university capital plan, rolled out in the last five years
  42. BOT focused on making Penn State as great as it can be
  43. We need direct communication from campuses to Mike
  44. Conclusion
  45. Honored to be the BOT rep
  46. Goal is to visit each campus!
  47. Contacting Mike:
  48. Zak Comments
  49. Traditionally there is a student representing on this board, we need another student seat along with Mike (he is the only one currently)
  50. Most are in support of it, but some do not think it is necessary
  51. Announcements:
  52. DeBellis: Regarding Faculty Student Senate- DACA statement is prepared and video will be sent out, if anyone wants to be involved in the video, let us know!
  53. Do not forget about our Advisors and Graduate students!
  54. Ann-Queen: Presidents voted out of 8 wonderful students to be on CRC
  55. Will be officially voted on later today
  56. If you are one of these 6 people with be attending CRC meeting during lunch
  57. Justice
  58. Steven
  59. Cassandra
  60. Ashton
  61. Andrew Scott White
  62. Samuel
  1. Adjournment
  2. Motion to Adjournment
  3. Brandywine: Move
  4. Berks: Second
  5. Favor: All

Adjournment: 10:38am