SA Residential Life Committee Meeting Minutes
February 12, 2013
Rockefeller Hall
4:30–5:30 PM
- Announcements
- Committee Member Reception — Monday, Feb. 18 (4–5 PM, Willard Straight Hall)
- Student Spotlight/Organization Spotlight
- New feature on SA website
- Weekly spotlighting of a student and monthly spotlighting of an organization
- Send Ulysses spotlight suggestions
- Resolutions to Review
- SA Events Calendar Resolution - Juliana Bautista ‘16 & Ian Harris ‘16
- There lacks a comprehensive list of campus events that can be found at one centralized hub of information
- Students are often unaware of all the great opportunities and events on campus
- Pilot Program to bring more attention to events.cornell.edu
- Invite leaders of approximately 30 student organizations to inform them on the benefits of using and how to use the online calendar
- Allow organizations to have profiles so joining and learning more would be easier for students using the calendar
- Do not place too much (or any) emphasis on possible resulting emails that would be sent out to the student body to promote upcoming events found on the calendar
- Allow for customizing/filtering so students can view the most relevant events
- Allow students to create own profiles which would then be used to provide a more personalized calendar of events
- Streamline event planning process to the events calendar website
- Look into the Hotel School’s system (orgsync.com)
- Vote (voting outcomes were contingent on discussion points and suggestions stated above)
- In Favor: 3
- Abstain: 3
- Against: 0
- International Student Centre — Enrico Bonatti ‘14
- Ensure positive mental health and quality of life of international students
- See to the unique issues and needs of international students (i.e. culture shock, language issues, academics, programming)
- Provide a safe space for international students
- Help bring the various backgrounds of international students together
- Establishment of International Student Centre
- There are a lot of unoccupied space on campus
- Would act as a resource center and encourage unity
- Would work closely with International Students and Scholar’s Office (ISSO)
- ISSO is a purely administrative support network
- Open to undergraduates, graduates, faculty, staff, and affiliated families
- Confirm and publicize the support of alumni of the resolution when presenting
- Identify possible locations on campus that could serve as the center
- Vote (voting outcomes were contingent on discussion points and suggestions stated above)
- In Favor: 6
- Abstain: 0
- Against: 0
- Residential Staff Training (assigning teams)
- Survey (within 2 weeks) — speak with group responsible for creating campus-wide surveys; work with them to create survey
- Team: Rebecca Sharma, Gillian Trimber
- RA Input (within 2 weeks)- Contact RA’s from a variety of places (West Campus, Co-ops, North Campus, Program Houses, RHDs, Assistant Deans, etc.); invite to committee meeting to give feedback
- Team: Elsie Liaros, Elaine Lin, Shiva Bhargava
- Class Projects (find contacts) — Find classes willing to take this on this semester or next semester
- Next meeting: Tuesday, Feb. 19 @ 4:30 PM (Goldwin Smith Hall, Room TBA)