Senate Minutes | November 13, 2015
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Academic Org: $78,496.38
Call to Order
Co-Sponsorship: $26,570.33
a. Roll Call
Conference Scholarship: $29,241.02
i. Late: Jordan Beeks(UNEXCUSED)
Senate: $11,000
ii. Absent: Annabell Liao
Student Org: $47,078.23
(UNEXCUSED) & Ryan Schindler
(EXCUSED)
b. Approval of Minutes
i. Motion- Mitchell Rosenberg
ii. Second- Emmi Schlaefer
iii. Unanimous
c. Approval of Agenda
i. Motion- Mitchell Rosenberg
ii. Second- Skylar Goss
iii. Unanimous
Old Business
a. Smoke free campus update
i. Henry Callander says: If anyone is angry or upset about this resolution
please direct them to Josh Nudelman or myself. Ask them to come to
Friday’s meeting if they want.
ii. We are now waiting the approval of faculty senate on the resolution to
determine the future of this advocacy.
iii. There is a large majority of students who are in favor of this and don’t let
the negative voices get you down.
b. AED’s
i. Gracie Truex says that she will hopefully be presenting a resolution to add
more AED’s to campus at next week’s meeting.
Committee Reports
a. Student Life Committee
i. Crystle-Joie Agbayani met with Jamie Gutierrez to talk about revamping
the Peer Mentor program (between first years and orientation leaders
ii. Mia Baybayan met with Michelle Sypinero from IS&T about creating
log-ins for Student Organizations to use for printing their club materials;
She said that it could be possible and it could all take place in a
designated area (the alcove in AF 302)
iii. Jordan Beeks is meeting with Adam Breunig to discuss on-campus active
shooter safety and how they can work together to make students more
aware of the procedures to take in the situation of encountering an oncampus shooter; this could possibly be a play/production
iv. Veda Bhambhani finished creating a draft survey that will get
information about how far students commute for their internships and
what compensation they would like to have to be “reimbursed” for gas
v. Henry Callander : The smoke-free resolution was passed, He and Josh
Nudelman presented the smoke-free resolution and policy re-write in the
senior administration meeting and Josh Nudelman will be presenting to
faculty senate next week Friday
vi. Madisen Dewey got in contact with Dawn Hunter about how “not
accessible” the single-stall bathrooms in the library are. She and another
student will be meeting with her on Tuesday to discuss how they can
make it more accessible
vii. Helen Garcia met with Sodexo and found out that most of the leftover
food doesn’t get thrown out; food gets used for the next meal and
workers take leftovers home
b. Campus Inclusion Committee
i. Adam Cash is working with IS&T and is drafting resolution to all gender
bathroom
ii. Adam Breunig met with Mia Baybayan, pushing the laptop program
forward. The kiosk is a very advanced case and working on bringing it to
campus
iii. Tristan Tran met with Study Abroad and is looking at courses and getting
it easier to have science students to study abroad
iv. Emmi Schlaefer is trying to raise the pay for SI’s and tutors.
v. Tyler Porterfield met with Jamie from Orientation about ideas for
Orientation and met with Frank Key from admissions
c. Academic Affairs Committee
i. Priya Patel is working on Discover Chapman Transportation. This is going
to be a project where we arrange for transportation to the School of
Pharmacy (CUSP) on the Rinker Health Science Campus during open
house and “Discover Chapman” day events
ii. Amanda Moore and Emily Miller spoke with two separate groups, one
with faculty about improvements within CES and another with the CES
fraternity KDPi. They recieved some great feedback and are ready to
begin the Facebook page to advertise Coffee with CES.
iii. Jayethanjani Panakkadan has contacted Diane, the woman in charge of the
tutoring center, to schedule an appointment. Emmi Schlaefer and
Jayethanjani Panakkadan will be going in to talk to her about the
possibility of raising tutor salaries and possibly offering course credit.
iv. Skylar Goss has been communicating with Mr. Keyser to learn more about
how to install charging stations. He will be meeting with Mr. Keyser in the
near future to discuss logistics.
d. Allocations Committee
i. Annabell LiaoWants to hold a de-stress type event with film students next
week. She has received an amount of funding from the CCE toward this
event.
ii. Christopher Nelson: Water stations project is now being partnered with
Emmi. Unfortunately, the water refill station in Pralle is claimed to be
unsuccessful, Glass hall is still undetermined. Updates are continuing to
come.
iii. Mitchell Rosenberg: Bike racks have tangible places around campus;
however, several administrative heads are still needed to receive approval
from.
iv. James Hart Attended the city council meeting earlier this week. James
aims to make a bridge between campus and community relations. A
formal plan will be proposed to the Student Conduct Code board later this
month.
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v. Pammie Wong is working on the current proposal of expanding Safe Ride.
e. Outside Committee Reports
i. Tyler Porterfield attended the Faculty, Diversity, and Inclusion committee
and they discussed how every professor is supposed to have a diversity
section in the syllabus and some just have a link for it but not discuss it.
ii. Helen Garcia met with Sodexo and they said that many students want to
help donate and help with the swipe out hunger campaign to help the less
fortunate.
New Business
a. Dean Price
b. Impeachment- Senator Dewey
i. Josh Nudelman reports on the procedure of an impeachment.
ii. If anyone receives an absence after a censure, you will be automatically be
put up for impeachment
iii. Motion to remove the impeachment- Henry Callander
1. Second- Mia Baybayan
2. Approved- 25, Opposed-0, Abstained-0
c. Motion to close meeting to discuss internal matters
i. Motion- Henry Callander
ii. Second- Mitchell Rosenberg
iii. Approved-23, Opposed-0, Abstained-2
iv. Meeting was closed until 2:57PM
Open Forum
Announcements
a. Friendsgiving next week!
Adjournment
a. Motion- Jordan Beeks
b. Second- Skylar Goss
c. Unanimous