First years
 How to get involved
o Run for first year rep
o Committees on council
 Advising
o Emails over the summer were helpful
o Appreciated first year Google doc
o Need better accountability for advisors who don’t contact their advisee
o Suggestion: hear from advisors before summer orientation
o Major advising party
Rod Sems
 Music & Rod squad has started, Finance next week
 UPC is doing a mini class on wine tasting, $80 per person
o Looking into offering that as Rod-Sem credit
Rodman Endowment
 Start establishing an endowment
o Perhaps invite alums to formal dinner/presentation of first year design projects
Networking
 Resume CDs
o Got 86 resumes to distribute to career fair
 Alum list is in existence
 Professional luncheons? Worry about attendance.
Estud
 Can act as a resource
o Co-sponsor events with manpower and money
o Marketing and advertising committees
 Working on comprehensive event calendar of all of the engineering events (rodman included)
 Travel and Activities fund – for expenses from traveling to e-school events
 Fall carnival, e-week, rotunda dinner, etc
 Rodman e-week event?
Social
 Krista – representative of Echol’s council
 Semiformal
o With Echols
o Won’t be free, but will stay inexpensive
o Will need help planning
 Working on t-shirt design, waiting on response from Elzey
 Rodman picnic or dinner (budget dependent)
 Echols suggestion: professors come talk about whatever they want. Possibility to open up to
Rodmans as well
 Maybe Apple Picking
 Waiting for Elzey on Rod Fest info
 Rotunda dinner not going to happen, Rotunda has been booked since January
o Maybe steal Echols date…they may be cancelling
Budget
 Actually don’t have budget yet and no idea what we’re going to get
 Need sustainable source of funding

Look for some more grants – special niche/theme
Rodman Research Fair
 Low Rodman attendance
Find former Rod Council presidents to help contact alums
New Programs
 Good response to survey
 Priority registration most popular
o But will be hard to implement
o Will work with deans to see what we can compromise
o Talk to current 4th years about what it meant to them when they had it
 4th year Rodman STS
 Rodman research groups
o Pair underclass rodmans with upperclass already doing research
 Upperclass rodman housing
o Maybe a chunk in Bice with Echols
o Like the German house
 Amusement park trip was ranked high 
 Tubing trip
Website
 Currently wiki, working on making it a real website
 Move it into SEAS directory, make it look like the SEAS site
 We’ll still have control
 SEAS web team will help manage, avoid communication lapses
 Looking for DreamWeaver assistance
 Getting rid of a lot of irrelevant information and redundancies