Student Senate Meeting
March 30th, 2016 – 8:00 pm, Farnsworth Pavilion
★ Call to Order- 8:06 PM
★ Roll Call
★ Approval of Minutes
★ Presentation from Alumni Affairs
○ Rice Alumni and Student Mentoring Hub
■ Website to connect alumni to students, alumni to alumni for professional development
■ Partnering with RCEL, CCD
■ Plan to be launched on October 12th
■ Naming Competition
● Now-April 11th to submit ideas
● $500 for top 3
● Up to $1000 for final prizes
★ RSVP Presentation
○ RSVP Think Tank
■ Want to re-establish RSVP as overarching service club
■ Expanded constitution and appendix
■ New RSVP Structure
● Chair, Treasurer/ Secretary, Publicity, Outreach, Programming
■ Email with questions
★ Campus Culture Priorities Working Group Presentation
○ Survey sent out to determine current campus/ personal priorities
○ Campus priorities: social environment, personal: mental wellbeing
○ General takeaways
■ Emphasis on mental wellbeing
■ Adequacy of resources
○ Next steps→ Overall: Why are student concerns not being met?
■ Focus groups collaborating with outside organizations
■ Goal is to have a write-up of recommendations for Senate and administration
○ Issues more rooted in preconceived notion about mental health, more than resources on campus → How does the college system play into mental health?
○ Resources not well-known/ well-liked
○ Concern with making resolution→ unless resolution is co-written with all organizations on campus that would be affected by it
★ Updates about CUC
○ Speaker of Senate agreed to table vote
○ Pushback from natural science/engineering departments
○ Aggregate of student concerns/ solutions to be made by subcommittee
★ Nomination of Interim EVP
○ Interim EVP for up to 3 weeks→ Hannah Todd
■ Approved
★ Announcements
○ Application for Blanket Tax committee due on Saturday night
○ SA Retreat April 9th 9AM-12 PM
★ Adjournment- 8:54 PM