Meeting Location: HUB 102

Meeting Location: HUB 102

President’s Session

Meeting Location:HUB 102

Friday, October 6th, 2017
  1. Call to Order
  2. Time: 7:00
  3. Roll Call
  4. Not in Attendance: None
  5. Late:
  6. Behrend
  7. Lehigh Valley
  8. Abington
  9. Brandywine
  10. GA
  11. Excused:
  12. Fayette
  13. Approval of 9/24 Polycom Minutes
  14. Ryan Morris: Move
  15. Harrisburg: Second
  16. All in Favor
  17. One OB
  18. Introductions
  19. New Business
  20. Campus Calendar (Zak)
  21. Looking to gather events from each campus
  22. Want to take some of central staff to visit your campuses and experience your culture
  23. Even if you do not have an event date but you know it is happening, please still send to Nicole
  24. CFB (Zak)
  25. CFB report will be given in General Council
  26. First meeting happened at 3:30 today, discussed policies
  27. Guidelines about how money should be allocated
  28. Caution to Presidents: Be very careful to the conclusions you are jumping to (UP is not stealing your money)
  29. If anyone has an issue with your allocating body, bring these issues to CFB
  30. CRC (Hunter)
  31. We need 6 members of the commonwealth
  32. We will officially approve them at the very last general session this weekend
  33. There will be a CRC meeting during lunch tomorrow
  34. Nominations:
  35. Justice (Skuykill)
  36. Nominated by Ryan Morris: Stephen Filpy(Berks)
  37. Is currently the Governmental Chair for Berks and he is always the first one to volunteer and participate?
  38. Nominated herself, Cassandra from Shenango
  39. Ashton Codwell (New Ken)
  40. Gov Affairs chair and participated in Constitution day event, got 200 signatures on a petition in 2 days
  41. Andrew Scott White (York): Reviewing of constitution for their campus
  42. Samuel Gongzalis (Abington)
  43. Charles Miller (Berks)
  44. Samantha Oliver (Behrend)
  45. Motion to Approve:
  46. Ryan Morris (Berks): Move
  47. Duncan LeValle (Dubois): Second
  48. All in favor
  49. Liaison List
  50. Figure out who your liaisons are going to be
  51. This keeps people updated and no one is confused
  52. Consistent Representation at each committee
  53. If you do not know council dates, ask us
  54. Committees and Ad-Hocs
  55. Goals:
  56. We need to push action more than just talking about topics
  57. We want things to be taken away from each council, if you do not feel you are getting this, Talk to Zak
  58. Push Deliverables
  59. Gov Affairs
  60. Situation with budget, financial limbo
  61. We do not know if we are getting our state allocation
  62. Everyone’s tuition could go up to the out-of-state rate
  63. Academic Affairs
  64. Rolling out surveys at each campus
  65. Associate director (David) is working with SRTE systems
  66. Ryan Morris (Berks): Are these going to be university wide surveys?
  67. Hunter: Will be specific towards each campus
  68. Student Affairs
  69. Three main initiatives:
  70. All-In Campaign
  71. Common Hour
  72. Transitioning students coming from commonwealth campuses to UP (Staying involved at UP)
  73. Women in Leadership
  74. Andrea Dowhower will be presenting in this Ad-Hoc
  75. Encouraging men to attend this as well as women
  76. Student Conflict
  77. Ann-Queen will be running this
  78. Using Feedback from SLC, 67% of students are not comfortable confronting conflict
  79. PR
  80. Cam, Andres, Greg will be running this
  81. Topics:
  82. How to run a successful YouTube page
  83. Social Media etiquette
  84. Ryan Morris: Will these ad-hocs be at each council?
  85. Might not be the same ad-hocs but there will be ad-hocs
  86. Endless list of ad-hocs that we could have
  87. Ryan Morris: Before the next council will we be aware of the upcoming ad-hocs?
  88. You will be aware
  89. Emails
  90. We are sending out the minimum amount of emails
  91. PLEASE READ THE EMAILS, Bold and Highlighted stuff is usually the most important
  92. Ann-Queen does not always get responses
  93. Some people respond to only parts of the email and leave us hanging on other parts
  94. We need input from your SGA and your campus
  95. If you do not have all of the info right now or you do not have time to do the task, just let Ann-Queen know of this (We need to be on the same page)
  96. UP Off-Campus Housing Fair October 15th(11-4pm, Alumni Hall)
  97. We can send out an email if needed
  98. Tell your constituents, we can get you flyers to hand out to your campuses
  99. Open Central Staff Positions
  100. Three open positions
  101. Assistant Secretary
  102. Associate Director for Academic Affairs
  103. Associate Director for Governmental Affairs
  104. Smoke Free Task Force
  105. Small percentage of presidents and vice presidents have heard about this
  106. Dixie (Hazleton): Chancellor said that they will be rolling it out
  107. Duncan (DuBois): Chancellor said the idea was there
  108. Ninon (Harrisburg): Chancellor talked about enforcement and they are working with task force
  109. Moustafa (Behrend): When will we hear about it?
  110. Expect some info around November
  111. Open Forum
  112. Melizza (Mont Alto): Updates on DACA?
  113. Creating a video about DACA
  114. If anyone would like to speak in this video, let us know
  115. We will be shooting the video this weekend
  116. Want to show how students are affected
  117. Statement will be released by staff
  118. Hunter: Do people watch the videos that we put on our website?
  119. Sam: Perfect way to explain CCSG, really liked them
  120. Moustafa (Behrend): Liked them, Gov Affair one was GREAT
  121. Wants more videos for other committees too
  122. Kyle (Lehigh Valley): As a VP, I do not get all emails, could I get emails about videos and other things?
  123. Ann-Queen will put all videos in GroupMe
  124. A lot of people agree that things should be sent to VPs as well as Presidents
  125. Anyone is welcome to call Zak at any time: 610 710 6861
  126. Follow us on Social Media!
  127. Motion
  128. Motion for Early Adjournment
  129. Brandywine Move
  130. Hazleton Second
  131. All in Favor

Adjournment: 8:00 pm
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