UW Colleges Student Governance Council
Executive Board Meeting 9/23/2011 1:00 pm
Minutes
1.
Roll Call;
President, Geoff Murray – Present
Vice President, Matt Riedel – Present
Executive Director, Ryan Paprocki – Present
Interim Financial Director, Rhys Kuzdas – Absent
Advisor, Kimberley Valenza –Present
Guest(s);
Associate Vice Chancellor of Student Services and Enrollment, Richard Barnhouse –Absent
2.
Approval of Minutes from 9/9/2011;
Ryan: I motion to approve.
Matt: I second.
3.
Financial Director Position;
Geoff: I appointed Rhys Kuzdas as our new Interim Financial Director, and he accepted.
4.
Elections;
Geoff: I sent out election information to the “SGA leaders” email list.
5.
SGC Constitutional Review Committee;
Geoff: I took a trip down to UW Colleges central and talked to Richard Barnhouse this morning.
We briefly talked about amending the UW Colleges Constitution, and I ended up telling him that
we will not be amending it because it would be counter-productive. Richard said that Chancellor
Cross and Provost Lampe understand this and are fine with it.
Instead, we will be working on amending our own Constitution. We are going to add an
amendment that says something like, “The UW Colleges Student Governments officially
recognize and delegate Student Governance Council the authority to speak for students on all
issues and all committees that pertain to UW Colleges institution-wide.” We may also rewrite
the ratification process. We want to then take our Constitution to every campus and have it reratified by every SGA. It will also give us an opportunity to talk to them about SGC, and about
what we are and where we want to be. Let’s start by talking to our own campuses and use them
as a litmus test on how it’ll go everywhere else.
It might be a good idea to create another position – Committee Coordinator – to hold others in
committees accountable.
6.
Meetings with Chancellor Cross;
Geoff: Last time, we left off with a loose agreement that we should schedule a meeting with
Chancellor Cross and SGC Executive Board, and another with Chancellor Cross and all students. I
will send him an email indicating that that’s what we would like to happen, and we would like
our first meeting to be with just the SGC Executive Board. I’ll ask him if it’s okay if we met on a
Monday around Noon, because that’s when we’re all free. We want this to take place after our
October 7th meeting.
Matt: Chancellor Cross will be coming to my campus (UW-Marathon) on October 27th, and
having lunch with some students. I may be able to connect with him then.
Kimberley: I will send an email to Richard Barnhouse and ask him if they would pay for a video
conference if he’d have one with us, or if we’d have to pay for it.
7.
Chancellor’s Facebook Page;
Geoff: I’m not sure how useful that it would be, but I got an email that it’s going to happen. We
should advertise it when it does happen.
8.
October 7th Agenda items;
Geoff: I sent out a list to students of UW Colleges committees, which there are a total of 4 or 5
that we need to fill. So hopefully, students will fill them up when the meeting comes.
Matt: Some ideas include: elections, committee assignments, business conducted by the
Executive Board, UW Colleges SUFAC Summit, recognition of the SGC/UW Colleges Constitution,
and clear/firm goals for SGC for the year.
9.
UW Colleges Senate Institutional Review Board Committee;
Geoff: We need to take a formal vote on approval of Beth Frost as the student representative on
the Institutional Review Board Committee.
Matt: I make a motion to approve Beth Frost as the student representative.
Ryan: I second.
10.
Travel Expenditures for Geoff and Matt;
Geoff: Matt and I traveled to UW-Manitowoc to help with their elections. We need to vote on
approval of refunding our travels.
Ryan: I motion to approve the travel expenditures.
Matt: I second.
11.
Travel Expenditures for travel to October 7th meeting;
Geoff: We need to take a vote on approval of expenditures for all campuses (1 car per campus)
traveling to the October 7th meeting.
Matt: I motion to approve travel expenditures under the condition that we recommend they use
their campus vehicle and to try to use only 1 vehicle.
Ryan: I second.
12.
Travel Expenditures for lunch at October 7th meeting;
Geoff: I put free lunch on the agenda to entice students to come to our meeting. There will be a
maximum of $9.00 per person. We need to vote on approval of the expenditure.
Matt: I motion to approve the expenditures.
Ryan: I second.
13.
SGC Website;
Geoff: We need to fix and update the website with the UW Colleges. We need to change the
Executive Board names on it and make it more towards the front page as well. We also need to
find out who we’re going to be working with on that.
Ryan: I will contact Richard Barnhouse and find out more about that.