The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Student Government Association
52st Legislative Assembly
Senate Minutes
Thursday, September 24th, 2015
The Fifty-Second Assembly of the Student Body Government of The University of North
Carolina at Charlotte met on Thursday, October 1st, 2015 in Student Union. Jared
Dobbertin, Vice President called the meeting to order at 5:02 p.m.
Senators in Attendance:
Allsbrook, Tracy
Augustus, Naja
Bumgarner, Preston
Cobbins, Reggie
Coria, Alberto
Creft, Amber
Granger, Jake
Houston, Adina
Jefferies, Andre
Maddux, Brandon
McCollom, Bryan
Ogburu, Bridget
Ozodigwe, Somgolie
Philips, Evan
Phillips, Garry
Quach, Sydney
Rizol, Anthony
Rodriquez, Alex
Rudisill, James
Russell, Bailey
Russell, Robert
Smith, Hayden
Summey, Kelsey
Washington, Matthew
Wilson, Alexis
Yohanis, Sam
Senators Absent:
Beebe, Austin
Kishan, Brijesh
McMillian, Tiffany
Roll: 26/29
Established Quorum: Yes
Recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States:
Approval of Minutes:
 No objections noted, the minutes were adopted
Messages to the Senate
Carolina Nowell, Secretary for Academic Affairs
 She is looking at Moodle and whether it is user friendly for both faculty and
students and the different problems with the system.
 They are looking at alternatives for the Moodle site. As of right now, they will be
going over 7 to 8 alternatives in their meetings for this semester.
 We’ve had Moodle for 7 years so they are considering on changing the system.
 They will be changing the timeline for the evaluation system that students receive
at the end of the semester. The numbers are usually very low so want to change
that.
 She is working the center for teacher and learning in making a generic teaching
midterm evaluation form that students can fill out because most students do not
fill it out for their own reasons whether its hopes of not taking the teacher again to
it is pointless to fill out the form at the end of the semester.
 Students can voice their opinions about these issues before the end of the
semester.
 They are forming a student advisory group for the library so thoughts or concerns
about the library will be taken place.
 She is also on the faculty advisor committee so any thought or concerns she
would love to hear those.
 They are thinking of having focus groups on changing the LMS system.
 The renovations in the library are suppose to happen over fall break or during
times when the library is not crowded with students.
 They want student input on how to decorate the library or what to include in the
library for the students accessibility.
 They started a program called the roamers, which are employed students that walk
around to assist students if they need help finding a book or just using the library
facilities.
Karen Popp, Chairwoman of the Board of Trustees
 She is the first woman student body president at UNC Charlotte during 1979-1980
and in the whole UNC system.
 She played basketball when she came to UNC Charlotte.
 She was invited to the white house by Jimmy Carter and Bill Friday asked her to
come to UNC Chapel Hill to be apart of the GA functions which UNC is still a
part of today.
 The hard work she put into UNC Charlotte stems from how she was raised. Her
family valued the leadership roles.
 She went to Oxford after she graduated college and studied law. She came back to
the states and went to law school at UNC Chapel Hill.
 She worked as a lawyer at Wall Street at one of the oldest law firms known as
Sullivan and Cromwell.
 Then she became a federal prosecutor in New York City at US Attorney’s Office.
 She then moved to Washington and worked with the United States Attorney
General.
 From there, she worked in the White House as president Clinton’s lawyer.
 She is now representing corporate America around the world. She is constantly
going domestic or internationally around the world.
 She believes she received an excellent education within college. Here at UNC
Charlotte.
 She believes that leadership skills determine whether you will succeed outside of
college.
 The board of trustees has oversight of the entire school which Mitch seats on.
 She also learned the unexpected things here at UNC Charlotte. She never thought
she would do the things she has done within college and throughout her life. In
life, doors will open for you and hopefully you will not be afraid to go through
those doors.
 She remains a 49er forever and continues to give back to this university.
 She launched the honor society, the alumni ambassador program, and drafted the
judiciary system that we still have today.
 On April 9th, she is planning a reunion of all the SGA student body presidents.
She wants former student government leaders with us and gives us an opportunity
to see where the university can go too and to network.
William Moll, Secretary for Information Technology
 He meets with Beth Rugg who works in the IT services
 49er express is going away and switching to MyUNCCharlotte.
 As of right now, all you can do is look at the website because it is not a
functioning website as of right now.
 They are looking for fed back on the design of the page.
 On October 5th, they will be launching a beta so students can use and see the new
system.
 In mid –November, they will be replacing 49erexpress.
 There will be a new wifi called EDUroam. They are trying to switch to it by the
end of this semester. A lot of schools in the nation have this system.
Jared Dobbertin, Vice President of the Student Body
 He is still working on the Alumni Speaking series. They will be brainstorming
which speakers to bring out for the series and they are targeting juniors and
seniors.
 He met with all the new senators and would like for committee chairs to be
transparent after the meeting so new senators can come meet with them.
 He met with the design for the statue and will be getting the cost estimate and
visuals for the statue soon.
 There are vacancies opened for the Colleges: 2 for Belk, 1 for Arts and
Architecture, 2 for Education, 3 for CHHS, 1 for Engineering, and 1 for UCOL.
 Two people who are interested in Senate came to the meeting.
 Jessie will be coming by to tell us about the elections. She will inform us about
the do and don’ts concerning the elections acts and the results.
 Food crew participants are looking for anyone who is interested in participating
with them.
Comments from the gallery
 Mitch informed senate that Tijuana Flats are doing 50% Wednesday for students
and are trying to give back to UNC Charlotte.
 Senator Russell is also thinking we should do an outing with all the senators.
 If you come in with 10 people and say a person name, the next day that person
gets free food.
 UCOL is looking for a poster child.
 The interested senators came and introduced themselves.
Reports of the Officers of the Senate:
Senator Alex Rodriguez, President Pro Tempore
 He held the group committee meeting and wants everyone acquainted with the
Google calendar and Google drive.
Senator Brijesh Kishan, Chairman of Academic Affairs
 They met with the bigger committee meeting.
Senator Andre Jefferies, Chairman of Internal Affairs
 They interviewed a new senator.
 He informed them to look over the by-laws and SGA constitution to understand
the process for becoming a new senator.
 They are also revising the attendance the policy for senators.
Senator Brandon Maddux, Chairman of OWAM
 They meet with Student Orgs and approved some grants that they will be
discussing later on in the meeting.
Senator Somgalie Ozodigwe, Chairwoman of Publicity and Outreach
 They created a semester agenda and start off with nametags.
 They are starting a student survey so they can get feedback from students.
 They will be showing a template to the senators on Thursday.
Senator Kelsey Summey, Chairwoman of the Student Affairs Committee
 They did not meet because they joined the bigger meeting.
 She did go to OrgSync and she will be teaming up for Kelly to present a
PowerPoint to her committee. She will possibly write up legislation depending on
how she committee feels about the presentation.
New Business
 They moved into open committee for the organizational request per grant.
 DIVAS was denied because they wasn’t recognized as a student organization, but
then they later found out DIVAS was actually re-registered.
 So they are going to open committee today to bring them back to the table and
approve them.
 They deliberated and moved to approve them of their amount requested.
 They moved to end open committee.
Senator Brandon Maddux, Chairman of OWAM, BCoB
F.B. 52.2-4; Organizational Request per Grant (O.R.G), Senator Brandon Maddux, BCoB
 Reads the bill
 It was approved.
Senator, Brandon Maddux, Chairman of OWAM, BCoB
S.R. 52.2-9; New Student Organizations Approval Bill, Senator Brandon Maddux, BCoB
 Reads the bill
 It was approved.
Old Business
 None
Comments and Announcements:
 Senator Wilson states that RSA will be having decorated your niner hat in the
SAC salons.
 Senator Allsbrook congratulated all the new senators and informed them she will
be taking photos for the SGA website next week.
 A group is asking for an appeal for their grant because they accidently wrote the
wrong date on the grant, but they have done this before in the past so senate
decided to not approve their grant.
 They want feedback about orgsync.
 The international festival is Saturday, October 17th and is looking for students’
volunteers.
 Do not be frustrated that we do not have legislation right now.
 Senator Ogburu said the minutes and the attendance sheet is on the Google drive
for everyone to see.
Roll: 25/29
Adjournment