83rd MSSA Senate
January 20th, 2016
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Call to Order by 83rd Speaker Farah
Roll Call
Open Forum
Approval of Consent Agenda
Appointments: Stone-Andy Nguenkam: Student Allocations Committee, Zeinab Dahir: RSO Committee; Jessica
Farah: Elections Commission, Jack Livingston: Bookstore Advisory Committee, MSSA Budget Committee, Alex
Lucier: Student Organization Recognition Process Ad-hoc Committee, Prathiba Dhamala: Student Organization
Recognition Process Ad-hoc Committee, Taylor Kruger: Student Organization Recognition Process Ad-hoc
Committee, Kaite Kanne: Student Organization Recognition Process Ad-hoc Committee
Appointments needing to be filled: University Policy Committee (really need this), CTF Committee (1 graduate
student representative), Technology Fee Advisory Committee (3 more),
Athletic Advisory Committee, Learning Technology Roundtable (1 more), Budget Sub-Meet and Confer (1 more)
Commission on Ethics & Standards:
Recognized Student Organizations: Students for Sensible Drug Policy, Minnesota State University, Mankato Subunit of
the Minnesota Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, American Society of Civil Engineers- MSU, Tau Sigma National
Honor Society, Airline Pilots Association- Airline Career Education Club, American Association of Family Consumer
Sciences at Minnesota State University, Mankato, Phi Delta Theta; Minnesota State Mankato Grange, International
Student Outreach, Social Work Club
Student Allocations Committee:
 Recommend allocating up to $300 for non-food related travel expenses to Chi Alpha Campus Ministry to assist
10 students travel to the SALT conference held in Minneapolis, MN January 15-18, 2016.
Meeting minutes 1.13.16
Approved.
 Vacancies
o Arts & Humanities (2)
o Off-campus (2)
o Academic at-large (1)
 Officer Reports
o President Haffield
a. Due to class schedule this semester, will be late to senate every other week.
b. MSUSA Board Meeting update from 12/3/15,
c. February Delegates coming up. Let me know if interested in attending.
d. Meet & Confer tomorrow. Several topics to discuss.
e. Meeting with President Davenport today. Along with other things, talked about a mentorship
program for international, under represented students. Also several search committee
positions are open.
f. Pedal Past Poverty event, February 27th. Are putting together a MSSA Team. I’ll act as captain.
Please let me know if interested in joining our team.
g. Hosting MSUSA meeting this weekend.
o Vice President Al-Mohamadi
a. Thanks to Senator Abdul-Aziz for tabling last week. As a result, was able to get several students
to sign up for committees.
b. Davenport informed us today that there is a construction delay with the new Health Sciences
building. Now hope to complete around Christmas instead of fall. The new dining hall is still
projected to be complete on time.
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Speaker Farah
a. Mandatory training on January 31st. Please respond to Doodle sent out.
b. Reminder to record office hours and do senator reports.
c. RSO Ad-hoc Committee will begin getting together.
d. Budget Sub-Meet & Confer meeting this week brought up issue of online differential fees.
Approximately, $1.8M was made just last year. Twenty-five percent goes to Extended Education
while remainder goes back to it’s respective college. More concerning is the fact that there are
only 20 teachers participating. In addition, we haven’t been very successful in actually getting
the reports that provide this detail.
Smith: As Academic Affairs Coordinator and having met with the Provost and discussed this, she has offered me the info
you mention. However, schedules haven’t allowed us to meet again.
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Senator Reports - None
New Business
83 MM 01.20.16 01 Approval of Actions at MSUSA Board Meeting
Al-Mohamadi/Dahir
Be it Resolved: MSSA approves President Haffield’s actions at the MSUSA meeting on December 13, 2015.
Motion passes.
Aye: 22 Na: 0 Abstain: 1
83 MM 01.20.16 02 Online Differential Tuition
Al-Mohamadi/Ututalum
Whereas: There are online differential tuition and profits generated from this;
Whereas: Students taking classes must pay this differential tuition;
Be it Resolved: A detailed report of the breakdown of the online tuition differential be provided to the senate.
Motion passes.
Aye: 25 Nay: 0 Abstain: 0
Sam: I would like to make this an official request to figure out why this is in place as all we are doing is logging into D2L.
Ututalum: Feel we should do this as in speaking with other students as well, can’t really see the benefit in this.
Smith: As I am the person pursuing this info, I feel I would be more successful in getting it with this motion in hand.
 Announcements
o Farah: Open forums will be held next Friday regarding the exploration of adding an online program to
campus.
o Haffield: Trivia after this meeting at 4:30.
o Sam: Working on coordinating the next marketing meeting.
o Martin: College of Business Big Ideas Challenge. Grand prize is $10,000. Individual and team entries are
welcome. See more at: cob.mnsu.edu/inititatives/bigideas.
 Roll Call
 Adjournment:
 Meeting adjourned at 4:34 pm.
 4:30 pm: 1st Annual Student Affairs/MSSA Trivia Challenge
Flexible Programming Space, CSU Lower Level