GSA Meeting Minutes 12

          
Meeting Date: November 9, 2007                                                             
Meeting Time: 11:00 AM-12:30PM
Meeting called by: All
Type of meeting: Weekly meeting
Advisors present: None
Note taker: Allison Nordahl, Secretary
Attendees: Steven Hurin, Christina Van Roekel, Kallie Smith, Allison Nordahl, John Copeland, Troy Foster

Topic 1: Food Drive
-Cat/Griz food drive was/will be held November 12th through Friday, November 16th
-collecting non-perishable food donations on-campus that will be donated to the Missoula Food Bank 
-the winner of the competition will be announced at the football game on Saturday, November 17th, which will take place in Bozeman
-Community members can drop off their non-perishable food donations at the Missoula Food Bank, located at 219 S. 3rd St. W
-Collection boxes were placed in dormitories and in the UC building on the UM campus
-On the day of the game, November 17th, UM fans can bring their donations with them to Bozeman and drop them off at the front gates

Topic 2: ASUM
-will be doing a two page story on different student groups throughout the Spring Semester
-Steve was to email for more information

Topic 3: Meet and Greet
-went well, but didn't make any money
-should do it earlier in the semester, and with more publication/advertising

Topic 4: Travel Awards
-Mary K. had not yet given a definite date for when to send out the call for Spring travel awards
-it was discussed whether we should wait until after we know how much money we will have, since we cannot yet guarantee the money
-Can also send out the call before we know for sure (with a "disclaimer")

Topic 5: Council reports
-Grad council: school/program reviews are being conducted, there has been a name change in the Anthropology Dept., the humanities program has had some curriculum changes and financial issues, and there is a revived history Ph.D. program
-3 credit council: Steve gave presentations about the applicability to students/programs, the survey is still being revised, but it takes under 10 mins, and is not very applicable to first year students, there is also an issue about not enough seminars for grad students, not enough faculty? and not enough courses? John brought up a possible summary of pros and cons of the 3 credit issue-possibly to be published in the Kaimin?

Topic 6: Goals for the year
-Steve will have a presentation about our goals for the rest of the academic year
-for next week's meeting

Topic 7: Other
-Steve was to contact those involved with the Big Sky Career Fair about possible collaboration
-the newsletter was proofread by Troy, and was to be added to the website
-the navigation bar and calendar are up on the website-check it out!
-Christina has done a great job on the website!!!


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