Work Session Meeting Minutes - Thursday, November 20th, 2008
The SAC was recently invited to the next Faculty Senate meeting on December 3rd. We discussed how we could best create a positive relationship with the faculty senate and what topics we should bring up at the meeting. We all agreed that a very important area of focus should be the budget. We started a plan to tackle the huge topic of budget cuts and how to best deal with them and agreed to create a list in google Documents.
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Work Session Meeting Minutes - Thursday, November 13th, 2008
Roy Flores joined from 1:30-2:00pm to discuss concepts about the how the process of the proposed Student Center can be organized. We identified several areas to keep focus on. We briefly discussed strategies for raising money, decision making with the creation of a committee, and creating a vision for future students and campus community members. The most important of these in establishing and maintaining open communication with the facilities department on campus. We also explored some potential ideas and visions for the Student Center itself. We interviewed a potential candidate for additional Student Administrative Council team member positions. We then worked through items on our agenda for the main portion of our meeting.
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Public Meeting Minutes - Thursday, November 6th, 2008
This was the second public meetings held in the Green Room by the Student Administrative Council. This meeting was held in the evening to give those students not available for our last meeting a chance to get involved and share in our efforts to better this school. Again this meeting was designed to be an information sharing session in which we as council members could share some of the things that we have been doing to enhance student life here on campus. By inviting two guests to speak our goal was to have an open dialogue to get down to some real issues students face. Although one of our guests was not able to attend the meeting we feel like we were successful in our goal. We received some wonderful feedback from the audience and some suggestions about how we can further the work that we do to.
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Student Council - Towne Hall Meeting
Thursday, November 6th - 4:30pm-6:30pm
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Work Session Meeting Minutes - Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
We began our meeting with an overview of yesterday’s Strategic Planning Committee Meeting which was held in the ED building. We briefly discussed the questions we had and the fact that we had questions about the process in general. In recognizing this, we will work to foster confidence in the students in the cabinet who are working on other campus committees. Questions arise for a reason and we all should have the confidence to ask them especially in regards to the important decisions being made on these committees.
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2008 November Report to the Board of Trustees
NORTH SEATTLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Student Administrative Council
M E M O R A N D U M
TO: Board of Trustees - Seattle Community College District
FROM: Alexis Baranov - Student Administrative Council Director - North Seattle Community College
DATE: November, 2008
SUBJECT: STUDENT COUNCIL BOARD REPORT – INFORMATION ONLY
Student Clubs
New Sustainability club is planning field trips to many [...]
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Work Session Meeting Minutes - Tuesday, October 28, 2008
As a group, we reported back to each other about several topics and areas of work that we have been involved with. The focus of this meeting was around these topics as well as the upcoming public meeting for the evening of Thursday, November 6th. We hit the points briefly in order to continue with our method for tightening up our meeting times.
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What Kind Of Campus Food Service Do You Expect?
In order to improve upon the food service provided on campus, North Seattle Community College is working with an outside evaluation group named Sodexo, Inc. ( http://www.sodexousa.com/ ) to gain feedback from students, staff, and faculty. There will be focus/survey groups held in order to achieve this. These focus groups will be directed conversations encouraging constructive comments. Having these meetings held in a directed format is the best way to gain productive feedback.
Student meetings for these focus groups will be held on the following dates:
* Tuesday, November 4th - 12:45pm-1:15pm
* Tuesday, November 4th - 5:00pm-5:45pm
* Wednesday, November 5th - 10:15am-11:15am
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Work Session Meeting Minutes - Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
In this meeting we gathered to discuss a refinement of our meetings as a process. In particular, we want our meetings to be more focused and action item oriented. Thursday meetings in particular will be held in the format of revisiting prior action items for basic info and updates. Our goal is to maximize the output of our meetings in a way which will allow time for regular work to be conducted in our allotted time for the day. With this format in mind we should be able to knock off a fair amount of time on our Thursday meetings. Being mindful of this as a goal is also important to achieving more productive meetings. Our Tuesday meetings may also benefit from this as we learn to organize the time we have to get the most done.
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Work Session Meeting Minutes - Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
We were joined by Kendall Harris at this meeting to be briefed about the focus groups which are going to be held by Sodexo Inc. in the beginning of November. Sodexo (http://www.sodexousa.com/) is a nationally recognized evaluation firm. They will be holding these meetings for students on:
* Tuesday, November 4th at 12:45-1:45 & 5:00pm-5:45pm
* Wednesday, November 5th at 10:15am-11:15am
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Public Meeting Minutes - Thursday, October 16th, 2008
This was the first of what will be many public meetings held in the Green Room by the Student Administrative Council. This meeting was designed to be an information sharing session in which we as council members could share some of the things that we have been doing to enhance student life here on campus. We went over some reports ranging from our schools current security protocols to the results of a survey taken at the Welcome Barbeque. We discussed how to sell and buy books on our new Online Book Exchange and how to navigate our wonderful website. We received some feedback from the students during the question and answer portion of the meeting and successfully communicated to students how they might get involved in campus business and activities. The meeting went very well and we are all proud to have reached this milestone.
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Joe Feagin - Diversity Lecture Series - Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Joe Feagin currently McFadden Professor at Texas A&M University, acquired his Ph. D. in sociology at Harvard University in 1966. He has written 53 books, one of which (Ghetto Revolts) was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. He is the 2006 recipient of a Harvard Alumni Association achievement award and was the 1999-2000 president of the American Sociological Association. Join us for this compelling presentation and discussion on the continuing significance and costs of racism.
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Essay Contest! - The Loft Writing Center
The Loft Writing Center is holding an essay contest this Fall quarter. Below is the information and an image of the application. At the bottom of this post is also link to the PDF format of the application so you can download it, print it, fill it out, and enter!
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Work Session Meeting Minutes - Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
ESL Student Welcome: SAC needs to have a presence at these events with the goal of making students feel welcome, awareness of resources, availability of assistance. Jeffery is targeting this group because the rates on ESL Students that are successful at north are failing. The ESL demographic needs to have connections established and emphasized. Sixteen Faculties will be involved and using class time to be so; they will also be bringing their students.
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NATPE Student Career Workshop at KING TV – Channel 5
The Educational Foundation of NATPE, the National Association of TV Program Executives founded in 1963, in association with KING 5 TV and the Northwest Chapter of the National Academy of TV Arts & Sciences, invite students and faculty from colleges and universities throughout the Northwest to attend a FREE workshop on Saturday, October 4, 2008.
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