Minutes for October 16, 2001
President’s Remarks
Molly Stutzman
o "Student Assembly Rep Lives Here" stickers are in. Stop by the office to get your very own if you didn’t get one at tonight’s meetings.
o West Side has been under construction, preparing for a Kosher dining facility. There is a committee of students serving as advisors to this new facility.
o SA will be trying to get feedback on the new facility to help the committee and the success of the dining option.
o Told about the history of increasing student-faculty relations and keeping an undergraduate teaching focus at Dartmouth. Last year’s president, Jorge Miranda, and Mike Perry ’03 wrote the Academic Direction of the College report. Striving for a balance between research and teaching was a major concept from that report.
Vice President’s Remarks
Mike Newton
o FYOSAB – Fry Your Own Seaweed and Brownies or First-Year Office Student Advisory Board. They are looking for an 05 from SA to be on the board. CONTACT MIKE FOR DETAILS.
o College Committees are going well. Applications were received for all committees, and they will be having a marathon meeting to choose the people to be appointed to committees.
o KUDOS were given to Janos Marton and Linsay Hoffman for Whazzupdate. Congrats!
President’s Assistant’s Remarks
Joshua Marcuse
o Cluster Representative Orientation, or CRO, is going well. I like making up acronyms.
Alumni Liaison’s Update
Amit Anand
o His position was created last year. He talks with the alumni, tells them what SA is working on, and gets feedback from them and learns about their projects.
o Blitz or otherwise communicate your ideas to him
o He is meetings with some alumni and SA alumni on Saturday from 3-5pm at 212 Collis.
Academic Affairs
Aly Rahim ’02
o UTI launch today.
o Met with Polly Griffin about changing spring reading period by shortening the exam schedule from 5 to 4 days. No Go—The Registrar’s Office needs 5 days to grade work for graduating seniors.
Admin/Fac
Stephanie B. Long ’04
o Deans & Directors SA meeting – In the works
o We need to figure out some ideas how to increase student-faculty relations – outside the classroom or office hours interaction.
o Meetings: Thursdays @ 6pm in 219 Collis!
Communications
Julie Webb ’04
o Blitzlists – You sign up on the list for people you know and keep in touch with them the bullets that Julie will be blitzing out to keep it more personal.
Student Life
Bill Jaeger ’02
o Mirrored rehearsal rooms, meeting with Athletic Department.
o Revelations Dinner (05s and 02s) being planned, currently looking for co-sponsorship. It will be OCTOBER 28. Spread the word!
o Blitz him your ideas.
Student Organizations
Sean Oh ’04
o $1000 Event Apps Sent- Spread the Word! Get other organizations you belong to to apply for this money.
o SA webpage- links w/Student Orgs websites
o Wazzupdate- thanks Lindsay Hoffman and Janos Marton
Student Services
John Apostolides ’03
o Mugshots- on sale now -- 250 to 300 already sold! We still need people to sign up to work more, so let him know if you are really ambitious and want to table in Thayer some more.
o Dining Guide: blitz me if you're interested. I need people to help me.
o A-Lot Shuttle – He met with Sgt. Lancaster about this. Trying to get S and S vans to take people to and from A Lot.
o Buses: Tom White '04 is in charge – Buses to airports in Manchester (NEW!), Boston, and New York.
oCluster Printing options
o Campus-wide Lost and Found database to be controlled by SA. All buildings could send us an inventory of what they have found.
o Newspapers once again at your door…We’ll see what we can do. We don’t want to be the only Ivy without it.
o Anything else? Blitz me at "JTA" or "Posto"...
Presentation/Q&A with Cassie Barnhardt
o Direction of the CFS community
o Last year a committee was created under the SLI to look at Greek Life. The Greek Life Steering Committee came out with its report last June. 35 people were on the committee.
o They agreed unanimously on a set of 6 guiding principles – (may not be completely accurate: Scholarship, Service and Philanthropy, Accountability, Inclusivity (not a word), Brotherhood, and Sisterhood.
o Minimum standards are being replaced with Annual Action Plans.
o First plans are being created for next year.
o A plan will be written for a three-year period with suggestions from administrators like Cassie, then they will be judged on how much they accomplish their goals.
o Failing to meet their goals could risk recognition.
o The CFSC (Co-ed, Fraternity, and Sorority Council) disbanded, and the GLC (Greek Leaders Council) was put in its stead.
o There was some discussion of new open container and walk-through policies.
Ivy Council Head Delegate
Beau Roysden
o Ivy Council is made up of delegates from 7 of the 8 Ivies. They say what their student governments are doing, compare schools, and compare what other student orgs are doing.
o Josh Marcuse and Stephanie B. Long are VP’s (one Internal, one External) of the Ivy Council.
o The Fall conference is Nov. 9-11. He has applications. There is ONE DELEGATE POSITION OPEN and you can also apply to tag along. The delegate has to be on an Ivy Council committee, while the person who just attends has to do a little research before going.
o They are dealing with Sept. 11 responses, Financial Aid, and Diversity and Multi-Culturalism.
o GET APPLICATIONS IN BY FRIDAY.
RESOLUTION:
It is attached and included below.
o Read by Aly Rahim, the sponsor, along with Academic Affairs.
o Said that it is the logical follow-up to the Academic Direction of the College Report from last year. They want to put money into it to show SA is serious.
o The processes involved in grading departments will be transparent.
o The primary data will be the opinions of the majors. They will be sent a 3-question blitz, and they hope to get a really high response rate.
o We adopted this resolution to show that we are serious about these ideas and to give our approval for the committee to go ahead with it’s work.
o Individual principles and allocation of money will go through the general assembly.
o Excellence in Teaching Profile Awards will be more than a piece of paper, but will involve getting the best professors to actually go out and speak about what they do and have recorded discussions about their methods and approach to teaching. Maybe $3,000 will be spent on this over the course of a year.
DEBATE
The first opposing remark said that it was excessive to adopt a resolution the various aspects of which will later be presented in resolutions. There were various responses saying that we want to adopt it in principle to show we are behind it, to show we are serious. We have already been covered in The D, The Dartmouth Review, and will be mentioned in The Dartmouth Free Press in the next couple days. The resolution was said not about showing how everything is going to be complete step by step, but to give a sign of support and say that "Yes, we agree strongly with the task you have taken on."
PR was also said to be important, as we need to show we are behind it to the media and to administrative offices around the campus.
FINAL VOTE – 33 Voted in Favor, 1 in Opposition, and there were 2 Abstentions.
RESOLUTION TO LAUNCH
THE UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING INITIATIVE
Sponsored by Aly Rahim ’02 and the Academic Affairs Committee
Whereas Dartmouth has long prided itself on the quality of its undergraduate teaching that makes it stand apart among its peer Colleges;
Whereas the Student Assembly’s 2001 report entitled The Soul of Dartmouth: The Academic Direction of Dartmouth College raised important questions about the increasing research orientation of Dartmouth and the future of undergraduate teaching at the college;
Whereas the aforementioned report makes clear that the public emphasis on teaching alone by the Dartmouth College administration means little without equally strong material and institutional support of teaching;
Let it be resolved that the Student Assembly adopt in principle the following Undergraduate Teaching Initiative (UTI) as a permanent and continuous initiative of the Student Assembly, that will be managed and implemented by the Student Assembly Vice-President of Academic Affairs and the Academic Affairs Committee, and will advocate for and materially support undergraduate teaching at Dartmouth College;
Let it be resolved that this UTI be initially constituted of the following four components:
A) UTI Component 1: An Annual Assessment of Undergraduate Teaching to be developed using qualitative survey data of majors in every department, and relevant statistical indicators to gauge each respective department’s commitment to undergraduate teaching.
B) UTI Component 2: Excellence in Teaching Profiles/Awards to recognize a different superior faculty member every quarter and have them facilitate a discussion on the current state and future of undergraduate teaching at Dartmouth, with the minutes of these discussion being archived with other UTI materials.
C) UTI Component 3: Innovative Teaching Grants to be awarded, in amounts to be determined in a future resolution, to faculty members on the basis of application to the Student Assembly for the purpose of fostering creative and innovative activities that will improve undergraduate teaching and learning in and beyond the classroom.
D) UTI Component 4: A Report Supporting the Creation of a Center for Undergraduate Teaching at Dartmouth to be drafted and submitted to the relevant administrators, containing examples of prominent centers at universities throughout America and suggestions for relevant functions at Dartmouth;
Let be resolved that the UTI will be a dynamic and continually evolving initiative to which other components can be added, and whose current components can be abrogated or amended by the Student Assembly;
Let it be further resolved that all necessary funding allocations will be requested of the general assembly of the Student Assembly in independent resolutions;
Let it be further resolved that upon completion, under the aegis of the Academic Affairs Committee, each of the four current components of the UTI be presented to the general assembly of the SA for formal adoption.
Let it be further resolved that while the Student Assembly is expressing its commitment to teaching through this resolution, the Academic Affairs Committee, in conjunction with other Assembly committees, will continue the effort of advocating for the College to adopt initiatives similar to those in this resolution at the institutional level.
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