ASPS Exp-Comm Meeting Minutes

January 31, 2003

Present: Rob Christensen, Abigail York, Ginger Elliott, David Welch, Maxine Davis, Becky Nesbit

 

I.                    SPEA PhD Conference

a.       Ideas for future

                                                               i.      Self-organized panels

                                                             ii.      Awards—potentially a gift certificate

                                                            iii.      Other ways to make conference competitive

b.      Other Concerns

                                                               i.      Involving first-year students

                                                             ii.      Getting more faculty support

1.      Faculty committee to review papers for awards

 

II.                 Self-Organization

a.       Chair: Rob Christensen

b.      Co-Chair: Abby York

c.       Treasurer: Maxine Davis

d.      Secretary: Becky Nesbit

e.       Social Chair: David Welch (especially picnic)

f.        Publicity Chair: Ginger Elliott

g.       GPSO Representative: Roberta Burns

h.       Dean’s Advisory Committee Delegate: Rob Christensen

i.         Faculty Advisor: Bob Agranoff

 

III.               Responsibilities

a.       Reading of by-laws (see by-laws for specific responsibilities)

b.      Abby in charge of listserv (talk to Teresa)

c.       Abby in charge of workshops

d.      Ginger in charge of website and bulletin board

e.       Maxine to check on registering with union office in Franklin Hall so that we can get more money (Student Group Office?)

 

IV.              General Goals and Directions and Concerns

a.       Continue with action items from previous Ex-Comm

b.      SPEA Conference (discussed above)

c.       Concerns about student fragmentation in SPEA

                                                               i.      How to get more student support for events

                                                             ii.      Listserv

1.      Abby to get list of who is current on listserv as well as a list of current students

2.      Approach students who aren’t on listserv and invite them to join

d.      New Student Orientation

                                                               i.      Put link on ASPS website to GPSO site for health care—Ginger

                                                             ii.      Items to Discuss with New Students

1.      Parking

2.      Tour of SPEA

3.      Printing Quota

4.      Day-to-day workings of SPEA

5.      Everything to know about Bloomington (borrow orientation book from another department)

                                                            iii.      Involving returning students in new student orientation

                                                           iv.      Ginger to spearhead orientation

e.       Student Workspace

                                                               i.      How to get more

                                                             ii.      Room 312

1.      Becky to find out how many AI’s there are (and how many that use room 312)

2.      Rob to spearhead the re-organization of room 312

a.       Making a new layout

b.      Determining what items we need to get from building people

f.        Other Issues

                                                               i.      Student evaluation form for new professors—Abby to get this from political science

                                                             ii.      Send out email informing students of our self-organization—Rob

                                                            iii.      David to send out survey to all PhD students to ask them about issues they want us to work on, concerns they have, and their preferences for social activities

 

V.                 Next Meeting

a.       Friday, February 28th, 9:00am PhD Lounge

b.      Send any agenda items for next meeting to Becky

c.       Rob to schedule conference room for next meeting

 

 

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