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2011-2012 Term Meeting Minutes Tuesday, November 1, 2011 9:00 PM
2010-2011 Term Meeting Minutes
Tuesday, November 1, 2011 9:00 PM 9:00 PM. Roll Call –Julia Sferlazzo 9:10-9:15PM- Dean Bailyn 9:10-9:25PM. Updates
Committee Reports 1. Judiciary: Christopher Morgan-Riess 2. OCS: Paige Taylor 3. Externships and Clinics: Kristin Leighton 4. Registrar: Jeff Camhi 5. Social: Brittany Muetzel, Alexa Sendukas
6. Special Events: George Chipev, Shaun Zhang, Kylen Grimes 7. Campus Services: Lisa Lowry
9. Technology: Josh Karpoff
10. ABA Rep: Derek Guizado
11. LLM- Flag panel about jobs in US
Resolutions– Debate/Vote
AYE: 7 NAY: 31 ABSTAIN: 7 Resolution fails 10:15 PM. Adjourn
Minutes from Meeting on September 7: Day Vice President, Elizabeth: -Survey for the student body has had 60 responses Evening VP, Sean: -Absent Secretary, Amanda: -Josh Karpoff is going to be chairing the advisory committee and the liaison on the faculty committee AG, Nadia: -New delegate training was tonight CoS, Stephanie: -One week from tomorrow (April 21) the faculty is meeting to vote on a change to the externship program to give us a 3-credit option Dean of Student Life, M. Bailin: -The website clearly needs to be redesigned 1. We are trying to come to agreement on what content should be available there -The Web Redesign Committee, the ad-hoc Student Advisory Committee will both be working on this Website Redevelopment, Anne and Anne: -We are focusing on content at this point because we have no web designer and no graphics as yet -Feedback on content: -Links on Student Services are cluttered and in paragraph format -Convenient links should be available -Difficult to find multimedia -Utilize drop-down menus instead of paragraph formats -Change website so it doesn’t log you out every 20 minutes -Inconvenient to get to Symplicity -Courseware difficult to navigate -Other schools’ websites have appealing visuals; ours is more text-based: we need to create a positive first impression for students looking at the website -Courseware is counterintuitive -Topic headings sometimes don’t direct you to the information you need (ex: health center website needs hours, etc) -Need to keep website updated with current information on hours and closings -Clean up links so those that are more frequently used aren’t buried under not-useful information -Gaps between Law Center website and main campus website -Have to navigate through several pages to find past exams. -Need to get all information in one place (Example: Faculty post assignments for first classes on several sites (TWEN, Georgetown website, Courseware, individual emails), we need to consolidate information) -Get a search bar with predictive text or that shows common searches -Searches do not produce information that you would expect -Documents (academic calendar, etc.) should be available as HTML (not just as downloadable) -Presenters shared list of potential links -Will email this to SBA members -Share feedback with committee through Josh Karpoff -Presenters shared sample iteration of Student Life website -Includes social media, student spotlight, co-curricular activities, alumni spotlights, scrolling list of daily activities (likely sorted by categories or searchable; ex: Events of Interest to 3Ls), quick links -Presenters shared sample iteration of student resource page. -Includes hours for relevant offices, internal Craigslist, scrolling list of office hours, quick links, SBA updates, etc -There is discussion about this page being customizable by students -Presenters shared rough visual aids of Student Life page. -Resolution to pass website -Resolution for OCS -Budget resolution -Externship resolution -We all need to send emails to five faculty members to lobby. -Motion to adjourn, passes. Transition Meeting: 2009-2010 SBA
-Pick up nametags and get Cal Tort! -Committee Reports -Recognizing Special Events Committee chairs -Wednesday Wind Down tomorrow -Shuttle going to Senate Square -Last Thursday night a woman was sexually assaulted at Senate Square, so now there will be a stop there for safety reasons on the night shuttle -Recognizing all Committee Chairs -Day Vice President’s Report -Great job on food services! -No report -Evening Vice President’s Report -No report -Treasurer’s Report -Great job on allocations process! -No projected cuts to any budgets for next year -Attorney General’s Report -No report -Secretary’s Report -Dean Search Committee: -Three candidates have publicly announced themselves -All faculty members here -If you have opinions, send them to Patrick at pbh8@law.georgetown.edu -Richard Lazarus -Robin West -Larry Gostam -There are other candidates who have not yet announced themselves publicly -Cannot tell us how many candidates there are -There was a nomination stage, and not all who were nominated applied -President’s Report -Three objectives for the year: 1. Strengthening our externship policy (our success is thanks largely to Lily Chen and Jim Secreto) 2. Strengthening relationships with faculty (Food for Thought program) 3. Using SBA’s time better Meeting on March 30, 2010: 9:00 PM First Meeting: 2010-2011 SBA -Recognition of Sam Arora (President) -Introductions -Motion from Zach, Second from Ed to nominate Nadia Hojjat for Attorney General -The ayes have it -Attorney General’s training on Tuesday, April 13 (8:30 PM) -Introduction to SBA for new delegates, optional for other SBA delegates in Room 141 -Motion from George, second from Ed to nominate Stephanie Lezell for Chief of Staff -The ayes have it -Stephanie will contact all committee heads shortly -Committee Membership Appointments: -Elizabeth has sent the spreadsheet out, no questions -Motion from Ed, second from George to confirm the committee appointments -The ayes have it -The committees will be discussed at new delegate training -This term will start with a student survey to solicit priority feedback from the student body -Website redesign is going on and will be static for a while after this -We are going to look over the websites of other competitor law schools to pick a model for GULC’s website -We are not doing the same redesign as the main campus -Committee Reports: -Day Vice President: -No Report -Evening Vice President: -Treasurer: -Student organization budgets are due on Thursday and all groups are meeting with Appropriations Committee members -Committee will be meeting next week to evaluate the budgets -Next year’s budget will be ready to be voted on next meeting -New system for budgeting this year called OrgSync -Secretary: -Sign up for the Google Group! -President: -Spoke with Dean Areen about how important the rankings are to students -The alumni understand this, but we have to continue convincing faculty -Committee Break-Outs Revised April 19, 2010, (JDK) |
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