2011 03 29 Minutes
The New School
University Student Senate Minutes
Tuesday, March 29 @ 8pm
2 W 13th St, Room 1204
Submitted by Kim Hurley, Secretary of the Senate
Present: Melissa Holmes, Kim Hurley, Anna-Karin Loureiro, Nicole Park, Sean Elias, Rachel Housle, Hajir Sailors
Absent: Alex Cline, Minju Bae, Chris Crews, Cordelia Eddy
Suspended: Barbara DeLaleu, Fonzie Cuaycong and Jake Atchoo remain suspended for non-attendance under Constitution XII G.
1. V-Day Proposal
In regards to a question raised at the previous meeting regarding $300 for printing costs for the V-Day proposal, Kim received an answer. The $300 was a legitimate cost, as OSDA will not pay for their printing. We voted to fund the full $400 request, which passed.
YES (6)- Elias, Holmes, Housle, Hurley, Loureiro, Park
NO (0)
2. Provost’s Office
Carolyn from the Provost’s office came to discuss the movement towards online course evaluations. They have tried piloting online course evaluations a few times; the most recent time was last spring at NSSR and Drama. They have done a survey of course evaluations and found that there are over 20 different forms being used currently. Last year’s pilot was pulled because of a grievance filed by the part-time professor’s union; they are now working with the committee to design this semester’s pilot.
NSSR, Lang, Drama, Parsons, and ULEC will pilot the online evaluations this spring; the other divisions will be mandated to use the online system in the fall. In their studies in the follow-up to this, they found that 78% of students surveyed in the pilot last spring said that they prefer online evaluations.
3. Critical Themes Proposal
Cordelia received an e-mail from Rory with Critical Themes, requesting additional funding. They had a miscommunication with Parsons department of Art Media and Technology, which left them short $1,000. They are asking us to cover this shortfall, plus $300 for a DJ for the reception. Anna-Karin suggested that we request a breakdown for this $1,000 for transparency’s sake. She will e-mail Rory with this request.
4. Elections
Kim went over the timeline for elections. We are still using Elections USA due to convenience/limited time. The candidate forms will go live from April 11-April 18. Elections will be held from April 25-May 2. Anna-Karin discussed promotion for the elections. She will edit the call for candidate posters from the fall, but we will need new ‘Vote’ posters. Rachel volunteered to design those.
Kim and Melissa will work on the issue of which division to count GPIA students under, due to the transition/merger with Milano.
5. Lang Proposal
John and company brought a proposal for funding the Lang theater senior work. They are staging the second-ever performance of Reza Abdoh’s Law of Remains. They receive a certain amount of money to put the production on; however, they feel it is not enough to fulfill their vision of the piece. John stated that the piece fits with the different gender/sexuality movements on campus: SafeZone, Queerocracy, V-Day. The four students that came to the meeting represent a group of 13 others as well.
Anna-Karin asked if this was for a class, and how open/closed the production was to involvement from students outside the program. John responded that it is kind of a class, mainly the acting portion is closed but the piece will serve a larger purpose. The building and design would be open to anyone who wants to be involved. Anna-Karin also asked about promoting collaboration. John stated they were very interested in partnering; SafeZone has been interested.
Kim asked if they have contacted LSU, due to the heavy Lang presence of the project. John said they have not done so yet due to its disorganization, and also they did not want it to be so insular to Lang. They will reach out to LSU, though.
We asked the group to come back with a new proposal once they have sorted out the class/outside project dichotomy as well as getting more involvement outside of Lang.
6. Meeting Minutes
We voted to approve meeting minutes for 12/9, 2/2, and 2/8. The vote passed.
YES (7)- Elias, Holmes, Housle, Hurley, Loureiro, Park, Sailors
NO (0)
7. Adjourn
The meeting was adjourned at 10:06pm
Respectfully Submitted,
Kim Hurley
Secretary of the Senate