Associated Students of Portland Community College
General Council Meeting
October 7, 2013
3:00 – 4:00
Facilitator: Rachel Black Elk
I. Preliminary Business (3:00 – 3:05)
1. Call to Order
2. Introductions
3. Approval of Previous Meeting Minutes
4. Approval of Agenda – Liz & Madeline
II. Old Business (3:05 - 3:10)
1. No old business
III. New Business (3:10 – 3:15)
1. Young Invincibles – an organized based out of D.C. helping young individuals between
18 & 33. They would like to come to our campus and present an overview of what
school performance data is available and what could be presented better. They would
like to present to students on what we have not had access to. They are not a part of
the Higher Education Act. Shannon is waiting to hear from Justin if Young Invincibles will
be able to come to PCC more than just one day, hopefully two, so that we can make this
a district-wide event. If not, Cascade will host. Shannon is reaching out to Jefferson High
School students to host an informational session for them, as well. They will be
presenting October 14 & 15 at PSU. Shannon would like to have them home to PCC in
November, anywhere from the 1st to the 10th.
Liz asked if they will be discussing healthcare and Shannon said no.
Shannon said they will have a representative from Senator Wyden’s office who will
report back to the Senator with student input.
Madeline asked if they are a non-partisan/non-profit group.
Shannon said yes they are.
Madeline asked what PCC’s vetting process is when we invite groups to come on
campus to present. Specifically, do members of ASPCC have to trust their counterparts
when they want to bring groups on campus?
Kendi said we do trust our counterparts when we bring groups on campus. That we
cannot tell groups that they cannot come on campus, we are a free speech campus, and
that the process can be changed if we wanted to.
2. Committees: Rachel Black Elk
Sarah Dykes from the Student Development Committee is looking for student
representation on this committee. This is a monthly meeting that meets the
second Thursday of each month from 2-4pm. This is a very important committee that is
usually filled by the executive team, however, due to scheduling, we need fellow ASPCC
members to fill this position.
*Interested students: Cassandra and Cliff
Cliff asked about if he could go during office hours, Kendi said to just send out an e-mail
when this happens.
Introduction to EAC
The EAC crafts and revises policies and standards pertaining to academic, curricular,
student development, and student governance issues and makes recommendations to
the district president. The EAC provides an opportunity for discussion and exchange of
views regarding educational issues at PCC--whether initiated by students, faculty, staff,
or administration.
The EAC has five standing committees that report directly to the EAC. These are the
Curriculum Committee, the Degrees and Certificates Committee, the Academic Policies
and Standards Committee, the Student Development Committee, and the Membership
Committee. Each committee meets regularly, reports on its activities to the EAC, and
makes recommendations to the EAC.
When topics are pertinent to the college but fall outside the regular committee
structure, task forces are used to discuss these topics.
III. Open Issues (3:15 – 3:15)
None
IV. Public Comments (3:15 – 3:15)
None
V. Reports (3:15 – 3:30)
1. Presidents Report: Rachel Black Elk
Next week Monday, Oct.14th, 2013 I will be out of town. Shannon Olive will be
facilitating next GCM’s meeting. Please send your GCM reports in Monday at noon, and
any additional agenda items be sent to Bobbie directly, seeing as I will be out of town.
2. Advisors Report: Kendi Esary
All USA Academic Scholarships through Phi Theta Kappa applications are open. They
scholarship isn’t much money, but money tends to follow. Once you do it one time, your
information is ready and it’s time to apply now for next year. If you are planning to
transfer next year, you need to apply. There are also 5 other scholarships available for
application. The links will be in your email.
3. Club and Program Specialist: Chelsea Ellertson
Club Rosters are available for pick up in the Student Lounge. Please ask the Front Desk
Staff and they will get them for you.
4. Director of Legislative Affairs: Shannon Olive
Class raps on surveys from Student leaders – If you want to do a rap, please let Shannon
know via email or verbally and she can get that ready for you. Please have your surveys
returned to you before you leave the classroom and keep track of what instructors are
allowing you to do this. Shannon would like to extend a thank you to each instructor and
follow up with voter registration. Shannon will be having a Call for Action Day October
15th in the Cafeteria to get more surveys completed. 11-1. We have 500 of the 1500
surveys completed. The surveys have to be turned in on the 23 rd.
Meeting with Metro Center on 42nd Killingsworth – The Leg Directors are extending
their outreach to our Centers and Shannon gave a presentation at Metro that went
really well.
5. Director of Social Programs: David Osterhoudt
Nothing to report.
6. Multimedia Specialist: Cliff Li
Nothing to report
7. Communication Specialist: Abdullah Saleem
I have been posting flyers and taking off the out of date once.
8. Bike Program: Tom Martin
The bike shed was busy last week! 3 more bikes were rented to students. We serviced a
few bikes during open hours too.
Contacted wholesalers directly, also contacting Planet Bike and other bike companies
seeking sponsorship (money or product) to maintain operations. The industry
connections are always good too.
DavO asked how many bikes are still available to rent. Tom said 25 bikes are available.
McKenzie said she knows a female, ChiChi who is interested in helping out during
Women’s Hour in the Bike Shed. She will email Tom.
9. Dir. Environmental Sustainability: Jorge Torales
Communicating with Erin regarding the internal report he requested.
10. DRC’s:
BSU: I will be talking about Black Student Union Halloween movie night and my event
this week October 11thCinderella Cinderfella!!!
Q Club:
In the previous week I monitored the Q Club information board during club week and
spent time discussing membership with interested student. In addition I spent time
serving students on campus at the ASPCC welcome back barbeque.
Final preparations were made for the National Coming Out Day film showing after
having funding approved at last week’s programmers meeting. Food was ordered and
technical help was arranged for the day of the event in order to ensure everything runs
smoothly.
Mid-week I rendezvoused with a representative from Oregon United For Marriage
Equality in order to plan the final details for a marriage equality kickoff party hosted by
cascade campus to take place on 10/7/2013 at 5pm in the cafeteria at Cascade. After
the meeting I prepared flyers for the event and advertised.
Activities for ALLY week kickoff party were also organized and detailed instructions on
votive decoration methods were printed for use at the event by attendees.
The Bond Office, previously reserved for this year’s Q club meetings, was mapped out so
that directions could be given to students desiring to attend but unfamiliar with the
meeting location.
Final times for an LGBTQ safe space during bike shed hours were finalized and
advertising for those will begin this week.
MEChA:
We had our first M.E.Ch.A chapter meeting of the year yesterday. One of the NMCCs for
our region, Aztlan del Noroeste, has now joined PCC and will be a point of contact at the
SE campus, at least for this term. We are working on the logistics for the regional
conference, such as booking rooms for all the workshops.
Native Nations:
This week was spent working on designing, printing, and applying the "I am not a
costume" candy labels for distribution at the BBQ and throughout the month in the
student lounge and other resource centers. DavO helped extensively in distributing
these.
We had our first Native Nations meeting on Wednesday and it went really well with two
students who seemed really interested in participating. We talked about upcoming
events such as the storytelling event, the 1491s performance at PSU, and OSCC. We also
brainstormed service project and club activity ideas.
I also worked extensively on firming up the storytelling event. The location was
successfully switched to the MAHB auditorium which means we will have to pay a tech
person but it’s a much better space. I checked in with AV, sent a set-up request, and
promotion request to Cliff. I worked on the fliers and scheduled a meeting with Wisdom
of the Elders for next week.
1. Phi Theta Kappa Report: Sabrina Brandt
Fundraising at the $1 BBQ raised $120 and a ton of food!
2. Women’s Resource Center: McKenzie McCartan
DVA Month, tabling this week with the Clothesline Project. T-shirts are available to
decorate and they will be hung on a clothesline outside.
Tony Porter event is tomorrow from 6-730, flyers are available.
VI. Club Reports: (3:30 – 3:45)
Club Representatives
1. International Club:
Nothing to report
2. EMA:
First meeting tomorrow, PSEB 111 at 430, anyone is welcome. The 17th of this month is
the National Shakeout for earthquake preparedness; for more information head to
Portland Emergency Bureau website.
3. VRC:
We are filming on Wed the 16th starting at 2 pm, we need people to come talk about or
thank a veteran on camera.
VII. Committee Reports: (3:45 – 4:00)
1. District Student Council: Rachel Black Elk
We had our first DSC meeting, Oct.4th and it went well. The first meeting was mainly
presentations with a couple of discussion items. Some of the information presented at
DSC will be put on later for GCM presentations but some of us are discussing ways to
include programming or levels of involvement based on what was presented.
2. District Programming Board: David Osterhoudt
We, the District programmers have planned a trip to the Fright Town Haunted House on
Thursday, October 24th at the Memorial Coliseum. We are still discussing how we much
we want to sell the tickets for. We should have about 25 tickets for sale. There will be a
sponsored Halloween Photo Contest with Poppe the Panther. Forward your pictures to
the ASPCC Facebook page and the winner is based on likes.
We are deciding on a date in November for a Winterhawks game offered on the district
level.
Fall Common Application is available from PTK.
3. Budget Planning Advisory Committee: Shannon Olive
Nothing to report
4. Gender Inclusive Spaces Committee: Rachel Black Elk
Nothing to report
5. PCC Sustainability Council: Jorge Torales
Recruited students.
I attended the DCM and found out about our failure to persuade the food service
council to use reusables.
I also found out that ASPCC sustainability ranking is not the best.
I will continue to collect information and should have a plan of action to address the
specific issues related to our department.
6. Bond Strategic Work Group:
7. Multicultural Awareness Council: Rachel Black Elk
Nothing to report
8. OCCSA: Shannon Olive
Nothing to report
9. The Green Initiative Fund: Jorge Torales
Looking into the funding for more tablets to use internally.
Kendi asked if he received Mandy’s email and in the future he will need to report back
here about TGIF committee meetings and that Jorge is a committee member.
10. Education Advisory Committee: Rachel Black Elk
Our next meeting is October 23rd at SE campus
11. Curriculum Committee: Frederick Olson
Standing board of the EAC, made up entirely of faculty members. New courses are
submitted to the committee and the members make suggestions to approve new
courses, changes to existing courses, etc. Recommendations are sent forward to Deans
of Instruction for approval.
12. Student Development Committee: Elizabeth Ackerman
13. American Federation of Teachers:
14. Library Advisory Committee: Liz Ackerman
We will be getting a new library catalog and it should be pretty hectic. New information
will be given as it comes. The library is trying to provide more online books and Liz
suggested that not every student has access to the online environment. Liz also
suggested purchasing products that do not have glass screens and the library was
hesitant to that.
15. Completion Investment Council: Rachel Black Elk
Appointed Maricruz (ROCK CREEK Student Body President) was elected Vice Chair, and I
was voted to represent students on the Completion Investment Council (will discuss
more in the CIC report). This council rotates meetings to each campus. At the DSC
meeting we agreed that I would attend every meeting and Maricruz (Rock Creek) to be
the proxy in case I ever have to miss a meeting. We also agreed that the student body
president of the respective campus would come to the meeting if it was taking place on
their campus. This allows for me and the student body presidents from the other
campuses to discuss campus related protocols and collaborate before I vote on specific
CIC issues; which for input and perspectives I may not know about for each campus, but
also as a support person. Davo will come to the meeting with me when it rotates to our
campus.
16. President Search Advisory Committee:
Nothing to report
17. Auxiliary Services:
Nothing to report
18. PCC Reads:
Nothing to report
VIII. For the Good of the Order (4:00 – 4:00)
Shannon mentioned that she was doing a rap today when a couple of students brought
up a few issues. One is the Book Exchange where students asked to have the Exchange
extended through financial aid disbursement. Kendi said that it is a high level of commitment to
have the exchange open longer, including how to pay for someone to sit at the window and
stolen books. The longer we have the books back there the longer we are liable for those books.
We are working on getting a door for that room and if you wanted to make a change, ASPCC
would need to do research and determine where the money would come from to pay for the
extended time. The student leaders don’t even really touch it anymore, as we now pay
someone to be there instead of having students run it.
Jorge asked if he could get the numbers as to how much it will cost to extend it. Kendi will
provide those numbers.
Kendi brought up that it wasn’t an issue until disbursement was changed last year. It really is
only a one day difference and we could shift the time frame. Kendi suggests working together
as a group and coming up with a proposal.
- Adjourn (4:00)