Second Meetin 9/14/2015 4pm Valley Hall Conference Room Attendance: Christina Connery Kendal Lardie Jacqeline Arlew Truitt Grant Steven Goings Nancy Mendoza Shannon Brock Lekesha Ingram Follow up from last meeting Working on MSWSA website page o Meeting dates, meeting notes, etc. o Email sent out to students from Christina with link to website Make sure to send out email to faculty- include information on how elections took place and link to MSWSA website: o Sent email to all students asking for nominations for positions o No two people running for one officer position o Made a motion to accept all officers o Attach constitution as document Be thoughtful about when to include faculty in emails NASW Dinner Truitt and Jacqueline “Crushed it” First year student confusion about coming to dinner (many did not attend) o Did not see it as “required” o Last year in between Dr. Wright’s classes- went over together from 4-7 class and left from dinner to 7-10 class o Recommendation to communicate with professor- put in syllabus to make it clear o Make sure professors attend o Get someone from the local NASW chapter to come in for a presentation in intro to social work class and explain NASW etc. o Explain more at “community night” o Assign one page reflection about NASW dinner Students leaving early from class to make it to Dr. Love’s online class? Student’s not having the option to attend online class at school (program not installed on school--confusing) Most students go home to attend class Should not have to leave a class early to attend another Julie Sept. 21st- Mandip presenting diversity dialogue “how to get comfortable with uncomfortable conversations about race” 5:30-7 o NOT closed to just MSW students o Series of 3 dialogues Same night as ICC training, Jacqueline attending th 28 - community night 5:30-7 o Scholarship presentations o Alumni Visitor’s Center Recruitment for future classes o Outreach- MSWSA working with Jennifer o 2 year and 3 year program beginning next year Study abroad program o Electives offered next year Social work with Latino families Integrated health care Study abroad Finland, Sweden, Norway or Denmark 3 credit elective course Understanding the Nordic model of social work, how it affects social work in the U.S. Option for Central America in the future?? o Winter intersession Substance Abuse New Amendments to the Constitution Dual roles o Needing to make limitations? Treasurer? President? Not able to have dual roles? How elections happen o President, Vice President, and Treasurer elected end of Spring o All other positions elected Fall, to give the option to 1st Years Alumni Association Representative? Still a position? o Keep in the constitution o Position will be growing through the years What happens when there is no one to fill a role? Need to address in the constitution? o Steven says no o Required officers- President, Vice President, Treasurer, and ICC rep Executive committee- All officers Changing names of faculty to positions so it does not need to be updated as often Officer Role Adjustments o Take out all specifics- no times or dates for meetings and faculty names so it does not have to be changed every year o All positions that need to attend meetings “need to attend meetings or coordinate other members of the association to make sure someone is attending meeting” o Put in- President, Treasurer, and ICC rep must be filled o President (Christina) Remove planning for graduation Add presides over officer meetings o Vice President (Kendal) Add supports other officers in fulfilling their roles, steps in when roles need to be filled o Secretary o Treasurer (Kendal-dual role- motion passed) o NASW Representative (Lekesha) Communicate with Student Rep for CA Change to “helping organize lobby days” o ICC Representative (Steven) Attends biweekly ICC meetings or coordinates with ICC to maintain good standing for MSW student association as a member of the ICC. Communicates with ICC officers and other club representatives. Reports back to MSWSA what is happening with other clubs on campus. o Curriculum Student Representative (Shannon) Every meeting should have this as part of the agenda for curriculum meeting o Field Student Representative (Jacqueline) o Outreach and Recruitment Student Representative (Nancy) o Alumni Association Representative o Media and Communication Liaison (Truitt) Position building Truitt-Media and Communications Liaison (motion passed) Jacqueline-Field Student Representative (motion passed) Funding Application Not through the MSWSA or ICC Has to benefit the entire campus Higher cap! Larger the vision, better the chances of funding Funding for registration fee- per person scholarship o $100 o First come first serve o 40 scholarships? Post Lobby Days event with all students o Report on event and advocacy o Talk about legislation to classes at CSUMB o Voter Registration! o Contact professors to present in classes as soon as possible o Deb Burke? Other service learning classrooms? Lobby Day Outreach Talk about next week Learning from last year, timeline for events and such T-Shirts Are we able to use trademarked otter? o Steven to check at the next ICC meeting Sand City shirt guy- can we get better shirts, getting them locally, looking to see what kind of deals we can get Going through the ICC for funding Event Getting NASW member to sponsor a student at each event o Participate so they can get to know a different generation Social justice event (next semester) o Live homeless for a day o Etc. Fundraising event o Bake-dancing contest o Competition baking contest or dance contest (if you can’t bake) o Goal for the year- Increase fundraising Future meetings- Valley hall? Possibly in the dean’s conference room in next suite over. Meeting adjourned at 6:02pm