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External Affairs Committee Meeting Minutes of April 10 th , 2015
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CALL TO ORDER: Chair Lopez calls meeting to order at 12:06PM.
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ROLL CALL
Members Present
David Lopez
Stacey Acosta
Hamdi Ghanim
Sharan Kandasamy
Asha Ravi Mohammed
Gabriela Castro
Hendrix Erhahon
Absent Members
Keeret Uppal
Daphne Thomas
Nesreen Albanna
Stan Hebert
Guests
Erik Pinlac
Jordan Leopold
III.
ACTION ITEM - Approval of the Agenda
Motion: (Kandasamy) to approve the agenda.
Motion carries.
IV.
ACTION ITEM- Approval of the March 6th, 2015 Minutes
Amendment I: (Ghanim) to add Hendrix Erhahon under absent member.
Amendment carries.
Amendment II: (Ghanim) to move Daphne Thomas to absent members list and Nesreen Albanna
to present members lists.
Amendment carries.
V.
PUBLIC COMMENT – Public Comment is intended as a time for any member of the public to
address the committee on any issues affecting ASI and/or the California State University, East
Bay.
No public comment.
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VI.
DISCUSSION ITEM – Introduction of Senator of CEAS- Senator of CEAS
Chair Lopez yields the floor to Castro to address the following:
 New Senator of CEAS – Gabriela Castro
 Recreation Administration Mayor
 The position interested her because she wants to get more involved with the school then just
the recreation club, for which she is president of.
 She is from the Central Valley, 40min from Fresno
 She is a transfer student graduating in Spring 2015
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ACTION ITEM – Town Hall Collab. w/ Senator of Science
Chair Lopez addresses the following:
 It is being asked for $150 for food and beverages.
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The money would come out of the senator’s budget.
Motion: (Castro) to approve the $150 for Town Hall Collab. w/ Senator of Science
Motion carries.
6:00
VIII. DISCUSSION ITEM –CBE Event– Senator of CBE
Chair Lopez yields the floor to Senator of CBE Kandasamy to addresses the following:
 Dinner/Lunch with Dean
o Dean will send a list of available dates to have the Dinner/Lunch with the Dean.
 A Business Exhibition
o Orgs and Associations would table at the VBT building so that students get know the
organizations and associations that they can get involved with
o This event will hopefully create a better connection between organizations/associations
and students
 Business Brains
o Similar to Start-Up Weekend but students would come up with a business idea/business
plan
o Already spoke with the Dean of the college of possible panelists to have the day of the
event
o VP of Internal Affairs Erhahon asked if Senator of CBE is seeing for ASI to sponsor
the event.
o Senator of CBE Kandasamy stated yes but that it would be just for food.
o The budget for this event is not ready, however the panelists wouldn’t get paid, the only
thing money would be needed for is food and beverages.
o Interim Executive Director Pinlac states that for an event of this multitude planning
should have started since the previous quarter or even fall quarter because he does not
wish to put on half planned events.
o Senator of CBE Kandasamy stated that he already talked to the Dean of the college of
the event and he wants to make sure professors and he are available for the event. Senator of CBE Kandasamy has not heard anything from the Dean on a set date and that is
what is stopping him from moving forward with the event. He has emailed the Dean
once more, but if he does not hear from him soon he will go on and just have the Dinner/Lunch with the Dean event and the Business Exhibition event.
 An update that Senator of CBE Kandasamy has is that he has been working with the Dean to
have a separate study room for students of CBE that will be up and running starting next week.
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IX.
DISCUSSION ITEM – CLASS Event – Senator of CLASS
Chair Lopez addresses the following:
 Lunch with the Senator of CLASS Uppal
o May 5th , 12PM -2PM
o She is planning on having Bronco Billy’s pizza
o She is requesting $200 for this event.
12:15
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DISCUSSION ITEM – Science Event – Senator of Science
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Chair Lopez yields the floor to Senator of Science Ghanim to address the following:
 Lunch with the Dean
o $220 Budget for this event
o Thursday, May 7th 2PM
 Science Week
o Week-long event
o Still getting ideas for what activities to have
 Senator of Science Ghanim states that is looking into events to collaborate with the other senators.
 VP of Internal Affairs Erhahon suggests that instead of having dinner with the Dean to find a
Chair to have the event with since Senator of Science Ghanim has had Dinner with the Dean
twice already. He also suggests that Senator of Science Ghanim focus more on and put his energy on Science Week Event(s).
 Castro asked Senator of Science Ghanim how his Science Week would look like.
 Senator of Science Ghanim replies by stating that he is still gathering ideas and but that it
would basically be a 4 daylong event.
 Interim Executive Director Pinlac stated that if Science Week is going to include student clubs
to talk to VP of Finance Leopold so that clubs can request money ahead of time. Interim Executive Director Pinlac assumes that most of the money for the event will come from clubs being that Senator of Science Ghanim only has $250 to work with for 4 days.
 VP of Finance Leopold states that he likes the idea of science week but that instead of having
different events every day for 4 days to have a sort of campaign going on.
16:10
XI.
INFORMATION ITEM – Hey Be Nice – Chair
Chair Lopez addresses the following:
 Starts Monday April the 13th through Thursday April the 16th
 Baseball tees will be given away along with wrists bands
 Students-at-large will be emailed
 Albanna, Acosta, and Mohammed will be helping with tabling
 Interim Executive Director Pinlac asked if there will be a certain amount of shirts reserved for
each day.
 Chair Lopez stated that there will be a certain amount of shirts reserved for each day and he
will be working on that Monday morning.
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XII.
INFORMATION ITEM – CSSA March Bills – Chair
Chair Lopez discusses the following:
 S.355 – Teach Safe Relationship Act of 2015
o Was voted to support legislation through legislative affairs
o Will be moving as an action item tomorrow at the primary board meeting at 9
o Summary of Bill: “To help ensure that all students receive evidence-informed safe relationship behavior education and training, including education and training regarding the
prevention of teen and adolescent dating violence or relationship abuse, domestic
abuse, and sexual violence and harassment. Grants will be provided to schools to provide professional development to school administrators, teachers, and staff in safe rela-
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tionship behavior education and teaching and learning practices; and to provide educational programming and curricula that is age appropriate and developmentally and culturally appropriate for students”
HR 242 – Affordability for Constant and Continual Education to Enhance Student Success
o CSSA supports this legislation
o Summary of Bill: Restores access to year round Federal Pell grants to both part-time
and full-time students
In-State for Dreamers Act 2015
o CSSA supports this legislation
o Incentivize State support for postsecondary education to promote increased access and
affordability for higher education for students, including Dreamer students by providing
grants to eligible states.
AB27 - Public postsecondary education: exemption from nonresident tuition
o CSSA supports legislation
o It requires CSU to update its policy regarding tuition rates for eligible veterans and
their eligible dependents to ensure continue participation in GI Bill Education Benefits
AB 38 - California State University: Stockton Campus Legislative Analyst’s Office: initial
analysis to assess need for new campus
o East Bay was against this along with other schools
o The main issue brought up with this bill was that Sacramento did not want to have a
campus next to them because Sacramento is big they did not want to be next to Stockton since it is a couple minute drive.
o VP of External Affairs Lopez voted against this on East Bay’s behalf being that there is
no legislative affairs committee form.
AB 42 Public postsecondary education: funding and mandatory fees
o CSSA supports this legislation only if the removal of the 2/3 vote is removed from the
bill
o For as long as proposition 30 is in place through 2018-2019 an increase in mandatory
system wide tuition and fees will be prohibited at the CSU, UC, and community city
colleges and will also increase the voting tousle for student success fees from majority
to 2/3 vote.
o CSU East Bay voted to supported as long as the 2/3 vote is removed
AB-200 Student financial aid: Competitive Cal Grant A and B awards.
o CSSA supports the legislation
o Increases the competitive Cal Grant A and B awards from 22,500 to 100,000 annually
by 2018-2019 academic year
o Huge increase and helps a lot of students
AB-206 Student financial aid: California DREAM Work-Study Program
o CSSA supports this legislation
o Establishes the California DREAM Work-Study Program through the California Student Aid Commission. Requirements would include: enrollment, or acceptance for enrollment, at a campus of the California State University or the University of California
and other requirements.
AB-831 Student financial aid: Cal Grant Program
o CSSA opposes this legislation.
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o This bill would change the maximum Cal Grant awards available for students attending
private nonprofit postsecondary educational institutions based on a prescribed formula
that would increase the private and non-private Cal Grant by several thousand dollars
by 2019-2020
AB 968 - Postsecondary education: Transcripts
o CSSA supports this legislation
o CSU East Bay vote against this legislation along with other schools
o Requires California public and private educational institutions to indicate on student
transcripts when a student has been suspended or expelled.
SB 798 – Post Secondary Education Course Materials
o CSSA choose to sponsor this legislation
o As proposed to be amended this vote would create the open educational resources adoption incentative fund that would provide funding to local campus faculty to increase
student access to open educational resources.
25:40
XIII. DISCUSSION ITEM – CSSA SB/AB and Federal Bills for April– Chair
Chair Lopez discusses the following:
 Will be brought up in the legislative CSSA meeting tomorrow
 AB 38 (Eggman) AS AMENDED on 3/23/15 – California State University: Stockton
Campus Legislative Analyst’s Office: initial analysis to assess need for new campus
o Summary: Requires the Legislative Analyst’s Office to conduct a study on the feasibility of establishing a new CSU campus.
o Analysis: The newly amended legislation eliminates an LAO study on the feasibility of
establishing a new CSU campus in Stockton and replaces it with a more general study
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on the feasibility of establishing a 24 CSU campus in a location to be determined. The
study would include enrollment demand based on relative demographic levels and eligible students for each county, data on adult educational attainment by county, and an
analysis of the physical capacities of existing CSU campuses relative to current enrollment. The bill requires the CSU to provide “whatever data is needed to meet the requirements” of the LAO study.
o Location: Location: Amended and re-referred to Committee on Higher Ed on 4/7/15.
Passed 12-1-0. Referred to Appropriations.
o Recommendation: No Position
SB 791 (Hertzberg) AS AMENDED on 4/8/15 – Student financial aid: Golden State
Scholarshare Trust Act
o Summary: Requires the Scholarshare Investment Board to consider entering into an
agreement with a card issuer that shall include, but isn’t limited to, a provision requiring the credit card issuer to provide a reasonable award, or a number of points leading
to an award, that would be automatically deposited into a Scholarshare trust account.
Awards shall be accumulated through the use of the credit card by the issuer. The
Scholarshare Investment Board must report on their decision and rationale as to whether to enter into an agreement with a card issuer at a regular meeting of the Board
by January 1, 2017.
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o Analysis: CSSA has long supported legislation that encourages families to save for college. Whereas other bills related to Scholarshare are focused on tax credits, which
mostly target middle-class families who are more likely to take advantage of tax credits, this bill allows anyone, should they desire, to open a Scholarshare account and use a
credit card for every day purchases to accumulate savings that are directly deposited into Scholarshare trust accounts.
o Location: Passed as amended from Com. On Education on 4/8/15. Referred to Appropriations.
o Recommendation: Support
AB 819 (Irwin) – Public postsecondary education: alumni associations
o CSSA has decided to support this legislation
o Summary: Eliminates the repeal date of January 1, 2016 and, therefore, allows the trustees, alumni associations, and auxiliary organizations to continue distributing names,
addresses, and email addresses of alumni of the CSU, in accordance with certain provisions, in order to accomplish any of the following: provide informational materials relating to the university and its program and activities, provide the trustees, alumni association and auxiliaries with commercial opportunities that provide a benefit to alumni,
or to the trustees, alumni associations, or auxiliary organizations, and to promote and
support the educational mission of the university, the trustees, the alumni associations,
or the auxiliaries.
o Analysis: This is a CSU sponsored bill that aims to extend current policy the allows the
CSU, alumni associations, and/or auxiliaries to share alumni information with an approved affinity partner in order to engage alumni, including offering items like insurance and credit cards that bring in revenue for CSU alumni associations. An example of
this is at Fresno State, which received $105,000 in revenue from affinity programs and
approximately $15,000 of that went back out as scholarships, while the remaining
amount of $90,000 went toward alumni outreach including their magazine, online social networking and alumni programming.
o The trustees, alumni associations, and auxiliaries have written agreements with affinity
partners that follow a civil code requirement that maintains the confidentiality of alumni names, addresses, and email addresses. They are prohibited from sharing alumni information unless the alumni have been “clearly and conspicuously notified” and have
been provided an opportunity to opt-out of providing their personal information. Existing alumni that have received the initial opt-out form also receive an annual notification
of their ability to opt-out.
o Location: Referred to Com. On Higher Education
o Recommendation: Support
SB 247 (Lara) AS AMENDED on 3/25/15 – Dream Centers: Educational support services
o CSSA supports this legislation
o Summary: Authorizes CSUs to establish on-campus dream centers to provide information to undocumented students about educational support services.
o Analysis: Encourages campuses to better support a severely underserved student population. Does not define dream centers. Doesn’t make any requirements for campuses to
have dream centers. Helps to clarify that campuses have legal authority to build these
centers.
o Location: Passed 8:0 in Senate Education on 3/25/15. Referred to Appropriations.
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o Recommendation: Support
o This bill was brought to the Social Justice Inequity Committee
o VP of External Affairs Lopez voted against this because the language was not clear
enough. It states that any group on campus can create a group center not just dream students. If the intention of this bill is for dreamers then it should specify dreamers. Also
not all campuses have room for a dream center.
o VP of External Affairs Lopez believes that this bill should not have been brought up at
CSSA because he believes that students should get these resources in high school.
SB 634 (Block) AS AMENDED on 4/8/15 – Postsecondary education: interstate reciprocity agreement
o Summary: This bill would allow the Governor to enter into an ”interstate reciprocity
agreement” to oversee postsecondary educational institutions that do not maintain a
physical presence in CA or other states – likely affects online colleges that serve students in and out of CA. Oversight would include student protections. Important note:
this bill does not require oversight, rather it allows for oversight.
o Analysis: SARA is a voluntary agreement among member states that establishes comparable national standards for interstate offering of postsecondary distance education
courses and programs. These standards ensure an additional layer of consumer protection against questionable educational practices. California needs specific authorization
to enter in the State Authorization Reciprocal Agreement (SARA). Should California
join, each individual college and university in the state will then determine whether
they want to join the consortium and pay the fee to WICHE for the consumer protections and oversight offered under the agreement for students who take courses from our
institutions from other states. Benefits to California residents include expanded access
to educational opportunities, prevent intellectual exodus, enhances military and veteran
educational opportunities, and improves consumer protection when accessing educational opportunities from other states. CSU, CCC, UC, and AICCU are all sponsoring
the bill.
o Location: Amended and re-referred to Com. on Education. Hearing set for 4/15/15.
o Recommendation: Support
o VP of Finance Leopold would like to know more information on bill, more details.
SR 7- Relative to Mexico and Human Rights
o This is a resolution in regards to the college students disappeared in Mexico in December.
o Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, That the Senate adds its voice to
those in the international community condemning the disappearance and deaths of the
missing college students from Mexico as a violation of human rights; and be it further
o Resolved, That the Senate offers its support to all those in Mexico standing up for human rights and justice against corruption and violence; and be it further
o Resolved, That the Senate urges the government of Mexico to support further dialogue
between the international community, including the United States, and human rights
organizations on human rights reforms; and be it further
o Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.
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o VP of External Affairs Lopez states that one of the discussions that came up was that if
this was going to be supported then there should be something brought up in regards to
what recently happen in Kenya, 147 killing took place in a college campus.
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XIV. ROUND TABLE REMARKS
Leopold: Thank you for letting me voice my opinion and thoughts.
Kandasamy: Welcome Gabriela to the Board of Directors.
Leopold: Welcome Gabriela as well. I want to commend external for taking on some of the duties of
the Legislative Affairs. Also, a guy by the name of Trevor contacted him in regards to the electrical
outlets within building and I know he wants to continue to conversation.
Erhahon: Trevor actually came up to me to figure out ways in which he can collect surveys from students I just told him that he just needs to gather voices that say that these areas need more electrical
outlets. Then I told him to come back to the Board of Directors meeting to connect him with some of
the college senators.
Lopez: Thanks for bearing this meeting. Our meetings are usually 45min-1hr. We just needed to discuss these bills before we go into the meeting. Thank you for that. I want to welcome Gabriela one
more time. We are now a complete board of 14. I still need to have one-on-ones with all four of you
next week to finalize details and discuss the rest of the quarter. Hey Be Nice is next week. Elections
applications are due next week, Wednesday might get extended to Friday.
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ADJOURNMENT
Meeting adjourned at 1:18PM
Minutes Reviewed by:
VP of External Affairs
Name: David Lopez
Minutes Approved on:
5-29-15
Date:
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