NJPAGS General Agenda

Sunday, January 22, 2017

General Meeting

Rutgers University-Busch Campus

152 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ

Room 101—Psychology Building

10:00am-12:00pm Meeting

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1. Welcome

Present: Elisabeth Endrikat, Alexandra Gil, Sarah-Grace Helton, Rachel Duffy, Krista Dettle, Dawn Gemeinhardt.

Absent: Rachel Ascione, Michelle Pievsky, Neha Mistry, Kelly McClain, David Toledano, Kristin Toffey, Docia Demmin, Chris Thompson, Victoria Ozerskaya, Emelda Phillip, Tonnette Alcide, Stacie Shivers.

2. Old/Ongoing Business

a. Monthly MAL update (Rachel Ascione, Alexandra Gil)

i. No updates since most committees haven’t met since the new year.

b. Chair Update from Exec. Board Meeting (Elisabeth Endrikat)

i. Went to the orientation.

ii. Will be attending meeting on January 27th

c. Reminder about meetings and other important dates (Elisabeth Endrikat, Alexandra Gil)

i. Decided to create and disperse a ‘Doodle Poll’ to everyone in order to pick a date for the NJPAGS Retreat. Originally had chosen 2/18 but that is President’s Day weekend so it was decided that we would verify the date for optimal attendance.

3. New Business

a. 2017 meeting schedule (Elisabeth Endrikat)

i. Decided to go over this at Retreat.

b. Internship fair date (Elisabeth Endrikat)

i. We are waiting to hear from Seton Hall (Chris is helping with that).

c. Chair initiative (Elisabeth Endrikat)

d. Budget breakdown (Michelle Pievsky)

4. Brief Reports – as needed

a. MAL COLA (Michelle Pievsky)

b. MAL Communications/Programming (Neha Mistry)

c. MAL CODI (Alexandra Gil)

i. Officially the point-person for a social media presence

ii. Will attend Social Media Policy meeting on January 21st after Board Meeting

iii. No meetings since the new year. The next one is February 3rd.

d. MAL Membership (Kelly McClain)

e. Secretary/Treasurer (Michelle Pievsky)

f. Chair Elect (Alexandra Gil)

g. Past Chair (Rachel Ascione)

h. Advisors (Dawn Gemeinhardt/Krista Dettle)

i. Alex will help Krista with the mentoring program.

ii. Coffee and Conversation will be in effect this year - probably in the month of June.

i. NJPAGS Campus Representatives / APAGS CR’s for NJ Programs:

1. Alexandra sent everyone an email but did not hear back.

2. CRs were asked to forward email about this meeting to their programs.

ii. FDU PhD (Kristin Toffey)

iii. Kean University (Alexandra Gil)

iv. Rutgers PhD (Sarah-Grace Helton, Docia Demmin)

1. No updates.

2. Sent forwarded email.

v. SHU PhD (Chris Thompson)

vi. William Paterson (Victoria Ozerskaya)

vii. Yeshiva (Rachel Duffy)

1. No updates.

viii. College of St. Elisabeth (Emelda Phillip, Tonnette Alcide)

5. Other Questions/Comments?

a. Spoke about new and innovative methods of recruitment.

b. Thinking about having each member email topics of interest or something they would like to talk about at the meeting so that it is added to the agenda.

i. 30 minutes of meeting will be granted to that.

c. Thinking of having various topics be presented at meetings so that members are more likely to attend.