Aug. 15, 2014 GSA Meeting-­‐
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Leadership Academy:
o Should we turn my idea for the academy into something that all students can be involved in? – possibly develop a list of guest speakers who can come speak to students about how to develop qualities of a strong leader or speak about other such related topics? If so, we could do this once a month for the 2014-­‐2015 academic year, realistically beginning in October. If we wanted to give students an incentive to attend, we could use some of our budget to provide lunch and beforehand or during the event. o Who= Alumni
o ** Email Mimi about alumni list o Career Day= •
Executive Positions:
o Will we hold the election for vice-­‐president during the Nirst, full meeting? o Who is going to be secretary? What happened to the Joanna Rathbone jjennings@catamount.wcu.edu (?) from last year? o Are we interested in asking for volunteers to hold positions such as Events Coordinator and Technology Coordinator? o Is there any possible time that all four of us (myself, Leigh Ann, Tonya, and Brian) can all meet for executive meetings? I feel that they will be a waste of time if only Brian and I can attend. Right now, the meetings are scheduled for 10:00 a.m. on the Tuesday before each full meeting. Tonya said that she can only meet at 9:00 a.m. on Fridays but Leigh Ann said that she is mostly unavailable Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. It is very important that we all meet together because there is funding involved and we need to make decisions about how to allocate that funding as a group. o Also, is anyone else other than myself and Brian going to be able to attend the regular meetings? The dates for them are: Wed, Aug 27 @ 11:00, Wed, Sept 17 @ 4:00, Wed, Oct. 8 @ 11:00, Wed, Nov 12 @ 4:00, and Wed, Dec. 3 @ 11:00.
o All regular meetings will be held in the UC in the Catamount Room and all Executive meetings will happen in the Grad School ofNice. (We need to get Jan to list the location of the regular meetings on the website)
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Communication:
o I really, really need to know how to send mass emails to all graduate students.
o I also need to know what happened with our request to obtain an email account speciNically for the GSA (Jan).
o What are we doing about OrgSync? Are we going to use that calendar or the Outlook calendar to schedule activities? o Are we going to maintain the GSA Facebook account? o OrgSync or Outlook calendars-­‐ Could someone be responsible for listing our events on one of these calendars? •
Orientation
o What would we like to have available at our table? T-­‐shirts, Nlash drives, etc….? o Are we going to have a sign-­‐up sheet for those who are interested in becoming senators for their departments? (Brian-­‐ were you able to contact department heads in order to ask for recommendations?) o Do we have any kind of printed out information about GSA that students can take with them? o What suggestions do you all have about what I should say when I address the new graduate students during orientation? •
Random Things:
o We need to update the executive positions on the GSA website (Jan). o Brian-­‐ What time should we set up our meetings? •
Tim Carstons
o Brian suggested that we designate someone on the Executive Committee to be the point person for communication between the GSA and the library. o Survey= o First gsa meeting-­‐ ask about library needs o Sept 5= Tonya and Tim meeting 2:00, library small conference room •
To Do:
o Find representative on SGA o Find secretary= Leigh Ann
o Change Meeting Times
o Develop list of positions
o Get facebook password o Find VP
o Write up something for Orientation
o Sign up Sheet for interested students
o Executive meetings= Monday 4:45
o Add Meeting with Brian at 4:00
o Write up something for Orientation speech
o Friday event
o Travel Grants