SCFC Meeting Minutes
Tuesday, July 28, 2015 1-2 PM SS127
Present:
Voting Members:
Josef Crepeau
Chuck Harris
Jesse Neidigh
Jennifer Mills
Chris Smith
Wyatt Smith
Non-Voting Members:
Absent:
Voting Members:
Valerie Crepeau
Barb Seekins
Matt Riley
Nathan Anderson
Beckie Christiaens
Martin Horejsi
Non-Voting Members:
Jennifer Mills
Approve minutes from 6/30/15 SCFC meeting. – Approved
Minutes from the 6/30/15 SCFC meeting were approved.
Review Disability Services for Students SCF expenditure proposal for Accommodate software –
Approved
A proposal from DSS to expend $8,797.50 in SCF funds from MSA635 for the first year’s license of
Accommodate, an electronic database for students registered with Disability Service, was reviewed
and approved.
Review staging SCFC website. http://staging.umt.edu/it/about/governance/studentcfs/about.php
A draft staging SCFC website that the SCF student web assistant created was reviewed by the
committee. The basic framework is good with some suggested changes and content was discussed.
The following were some of the suggested additions.
*Showcase of past proposals that were approved
*List of proposals
*Tour of spaces
*Yearly Report
The SCFC needs to see a list of proposals submitted in FY15.
Discuss SCF student port subsidy procedures.
Matt Riley presented an alternative method for subsidizing student ports. Currently the SCFC provide
140K per year for this purpose and each port is charged individually to a SCF index rather than to the
department. Matt suggested that individual charges for these student subsidized ports be eliminated
and that equal funds be directed to providing services. This would simplify the process. The SCFC
agreed that this is a good idea and merits further discussion. Some details that would need to be
addressed might be
*plan to audit SCF subsidized ports
*plan to manage requests for additional subsidized ports
Other
*New SCFC student members met with Valerie Crepeau right before this meeting for a introductions
to SCFC procedures.
*Committee makeup was reviewed and the SCFC determined one additional member needs to be
added to meet the 50% student membership rule. The SCFC agreed that Christian DeCan with SAIT
should be put forward as an additional member. He has expressed interest in participating and he fits
the following criteria discussed at the June 5th SCFC meeting that
a student be added to the committee with the understanding that they would receive
one credit for participation and statistical analysis contribution under course 195.
Josef Crepeau will meet with Christian to discuss this opportunity and Josef will be the faculty member
supervising this student.
*Since Beckie Christiaens will be moving to a new position in Accounting and Finance the SCFC will
need to find a replacement for the Provost Office representative. Valerie Crepeau will follow up with
Perry Brown.
*The UM SCFC membership listed is incorrect. Valerie Crepeau will ensure that corrections are
made.