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University Forum Minutes for September 14, 2006
Attendance: Amissah-Arthur,
Abigail; Anand, Padma; Atchinson, Alana; Brosnan-Watters, Gayle;
Cooklin, Katherine; Cortijo, Adelaida; Creasy, Kim; Daniels, Mark;
Forbes, Wayne M; Frederick, Heather; Galbraith, Diane; Gorman,
Anita; Jenny, Geraldine; Johnson, Patsy Ann; Jones, Diana;
Marchand, Richard; McCaskey, Scott; Papay, Alyssa; Salsovic,
Annette; Silva, Judy; Smiley, Laura; Teodoro, Melissa; Tramdack,
Philip; Weary, Kimberly, Yamamoto, Junko; Zieg, Michael; Zeiger,
Bill.
1.AlanaAtchinsoncalled the meeting
to order at 12.40pm.
2.Welcome and
Introductions:
AlanaAtchinsonforum president
welcomed all members to the 2006-07 academic year and introduced
the new executive members:Amissah-Arthur, Abigail
(secretary), Frederick, Heather (vice-secretary) and Cooklin,
Katherine (vice-president).
Members were advised to
encourage students to be active in the forum.
3.Minutes from the last
meeting were approved.
4.Membership
report:
Members were informed
that Heather Frederick was in the process of updating the
membership list. Membership list was passed around for checks and
corrections.
5.Committees: A call was
made for volunteers to work in different committees. Members of the
committees are:
(a) Academic
environment: Mark Daniels (Chair);Weary,
Kimberly.
(b) Nominations and
elections: Mike Conlon (Chair); Johnson, Patsy Ann; Tramdack,
Philip; Jones, Diana.
(c ) Recommendations
committee: Melissa Teodoro (Chair); Jenny, Geraldine.
6. Web page: It was
suggested that the web page should be used as a publicity page and
blackboard as a discussion forum. Yamamoto, Junko volunteered to
work on creating a web page for the University Forum and manage the
blackboard discussion forum.
7. Old
Business:
(a) Class offerings: The
problems associated with students not knowing the sequence of
offerings was discussed. Marchand, Richard volunteered to look into
the issue of course catalog and updating it.
(b) Class size study: It
was reported that a pilot study has been conducted on this and the
data is being processed.
(c ) Bookstore: Concerns
were raised about the bookstore not ordering enough books for
students. Forum members were asked to document within their
respective departments instances where students in their classes
were unable to get required textbooks from the bookstore. It was
suggested that representative from the Forum could discuss the
issue with the bookstore officials. The academic Environment
committee was asked to coordinate the efforts in this
regard.
8. New
Issues/Concerns:
(a) Bicycles: It was
reported that nothing has been done about providing bicycle racks
on campus. Recommendations committee was asked to contact the SRU
planning committee to discuss the bike issues.
(b) Announcement: members
were reminded that Tom Flynn and Cynthia Dillon would address the
Forum at the next meeting.
9. The meeting was
adjourned at 1.30pm.
10. The next meeting will
be held on October 12 at 12.30pm in the PA room.
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