This is a weekly progress report on the ongoing efforts and projects of your class councils, academic affairs and student life reps, and University Senators. What’s being done about course evaluations and registration? New Courseworks? When are the upcoming class council events? Read on to see what we’re working on.
Class of 2012
2012 Class Committee has been selected:
- Eylul Kayin – City Outreach Coordinator
- Katie Brinn – City Outreach Coordinator
- Emily Ahn – Publicity Coordinator
- Alex Frouman – Event Planner
- Gabrielle Yo – Event Planner
- Alexa Goldson – Event Planner
- Hannah D’Apice – Event Planner
- John Nordin – Music-master
- Brandon Thompson – Career/Alumni Relations Representative/Class Day Speaker Coordinator
Lerner Pub Oktoberfest was a success – wristbands were thoroughly distributed, event was set up properly and in a timely fashion and there was a line of about 50 students or so before the 11 o’clock (p.m.) check-in.
Class of 2013
The Class of ’13 21st Birthday party is next Saturday night at 10pm in the Party Space. It’s going to be incredible.
Halloween Lerner haunted house set for October 28th from 7:30-9:30.
Casino night will be tentatively held on November 17th.
Class of 2014
Shirt design is going through approval process. They should hopefully be ordered by the end of next week
We’re working with CCE and the Office of Civic Engagement to host Roadtrip Nation on October 19th
Class of 2015
This past week, CCSC 2015:
‐ Booked space for weekly meetings, the October study break, and the November party
‐ Worked with the Center for Student Advising to organize a Halloween Eat & Greet event for October 28, 2 – 4 pm in Lerner 477
‐ Met with the Center for Career Education to plan a first‐year information session later in the semester
‐ Established an online presence and opened up communications by launching its Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr
Bruno Mendes- Academic Affairs Rep
COC/COI: Students will be interviewed next week. The delay happened mainly because the committees were still being assembled (on the faculty side)
Final Grade Deadline Enforcement: This is usually a problem in big lecture classes – this can solved with a new grade, AR (Administrative Referral), that will show up after the deadline for those students whose grades couldn’t be given for a number of reasons, such as missing the final. This solution will allow other students to receive grades faster, and Barry Kane (the Registrar) is implementing it. Dean Yatrakis is collecting data on late submissions to see if this is a problem in smaller classes; either way, we need that data to get faculty on board with this issue.
Syllabus/Course Info Online: This is in CUIT’s hands right now, and they want to make it available before registration in November.
Course Evaluations: A few departments, such as Econ and Poli Sci, already authorized quantitative evaluations to be published online. However, CUIT didn’t put them up, and organized it by faculty instead of department… They’ve already been notified of their mistakes, and they should be up for certain departments by the end of the term.
Course Registration: Dean Yatrakis and I discussed the creation of an online waitlist for courses with high demand. We could have a pilot experiment starting next semester already, but for that to happen I need to compile a list of high-demand courses that are going to be taught next semester. Do you think we could send this form to the CCSC board? http://bit.ly/pc5Eei
Overall, Dean Yatrakis seemed eager to take care of these issues as soon as possible, since they’ve been on the table for a while now.
Karishma Habbu- Student Services Rep.
Went to first SHAC meeting – set mission statement/future meeting dates
- Scheduled meeting with Dean Shaffler for next wednesday
- Scheduling meeting with Ms Girgis Salib regarding group fin advising
- Speaking this Sunday with Barry/Dan brown about group fin advising
Senator Kenny Durell
‐ Talked with Candace Fleming about Cubmail to Gmail progress‐will give brief update at the meeting
‐Worked with Aki and Tim Qin on NewCourseWorks feedback/communication
