Attendance

Gabriela Godlewski (CE'19)

Ariana Freitag (EE'20)

Jack Batson (ChE'21)

Michael Lange (ChE'20) (absent)

Jenna Scott (CE'21)

Sanjna Rao (ChE) (absent)

Alexander Cho (CE)

Daniel Kim (EE)

Jinwook Lee (ME)

e Harper Clees-Baron (BSE)

Brighton Huynh (CE)

Omar Thenmalai (EE) (absent)

Harris Paspuleti (ME)

Emily Frank (BSE) (absent)

Peter Zhao (ChE)

Sanjeev Menon (CE) (absent)

Yingzhi Hao (EE)

Olivia Park (ME)

Carena Toy (BSE)

Christina Byers (ChE)

Kirsten Ondris (CE)

Jacob Maarek (ME)

George Ho (BSE)

Agenda

1. Masters of Engineering

1. For next year (current seniors who has applied), all cooper alum will get at least half tuition. But the reduction of scholarship will be in place.

1. If a student receives scholarship but declines admittance, that scholarship can be reallocated

2. If you have any questions/concerns, contact the ad chairs (Carena Toy BSE20, Jack Batson ChE21, Jenna Scott CE21)

2. Faculty Auction Funds

1. “Donate” to a cooper-related thing (previously, donated to library)

2. Budget committee decides, brings proposition to next week

1. Will be presented over fb next monday

2. If you want to join, comment on fb

3. Rep Elections

1. You  need to re-run! Get enough signatures

2. If you are interested in running, you can

4. Trustee Elections

1. Engineering School, Art School candidates

1. If someone asks, feel free to sign their sheets!

2. Forum 4/22 ROSE 9PM

3. Voting period 4/23 - 4/29

4. Several informational meetings coming up, check JSC notes

5. NAB shared space

1. Chris Chamberlin, asked to run a “design charrette” for space for students to get together and spend time together

1. Basically, get people’s ideas and thoughts/community input

2. Will send a list of possible spaces soon

3. There will be food & support

2. Look out for updates

6. JED Updates

1. Mental health, there was a survey and some focus groups

1. Surveys closed, results compiled, school will receive them soon. Depending on results, actions will be taken

7. Minors update

1. HSS & CS minor passed through curriculum committee

1. Needs to be approved by full faculty meeting (in May)

2. Seniors might be able to get the CS minor, but not sure yet

3. HSS has 4 tracks, petition going around currently

2. Bio minor

1. Not enough clarity, did not pass

2. Bioenvironmental vs biomedical; bioengineering etc etc

8. Finals week update

1. Not much, there is no finals week for this semester

9. Constitutional review

1. Article V1 section 2

1. Passes!

10. Midnight breakfast

1. Happening!!! Sometime around the final meeting!!!

1. Thursday night (5/2)

11. Committee updates

1. Curriculum Committee

1. Fontaine is new Chair

2. Wolf is Secretary

12. Open Floor

1. Makeda is leaving (5/3) and her temporary replacement is coming soon

attendance

parker

dylan

jack

jenna

alexa

ariana

mira

taesha

gabi

brighton

austin

sydney

mary

khadijah

1. student trustee

1. updated schedule due to religious observances

2. forum

1. run by pioneer

2. food

3. editor is moderator

4. usually around 20-30

5. in rose

3. always hard to get a turnout

1. maybe have a voting booth one day? with candy as incentive

2. raffle?

1. we’re going forward w this

2. gift card

3. each council will put in an amount

3. maybe candidates should help with organizing?

1. something in the dorms to reach out to freshmen?

4. still need to get platform set up for voting

1. voting starts the 23rd, ends the 29th

2. booth set up maybe first, middle, and last day of voting?

1. 23rd, 25th, 29th

3. two people per booth per building

1. borrow laptops from cucc

4. esc will hit up student banker about voting

2. internal grant review board

1. each council sent a member

2. austin, gabi, kevin

3. decisions will be sent out next week (17th)

1. will people get a list of what was funded?

4. board didn’t get a cost breakdown

1. which were worth funding in principle?

2. ended up with about 22 proposals cut down from 59

5. will there be a feedback process?

6. info about followthrough process? timeline?

7. mary will ask laura for more info

3. csl

1. list

1. Architecture – James Lowder, adjunct asst. professor of architecture

2. Art – Leslie Hewitt, assistant professor of art

3. Engineering – Amanda Simson, assistant professor of chemical engineering

4. Engineering – Mili Shah, associate professor of math

5. Humanities and Social Sciences – Raffaele Bedarida, assistant professor of art history

6. Humanities and Social Sciences – Anne Griffin, professor of political science

7. Humanities and Social Sciences – Harold Ramdass, adjunct asst. professor HSS

8. Library – Claire Gunning, art and architecture Librarian

9. Administration:

10. Chris Chamberlin, Dean of Students

11. Kit Nicholls, Director of The Writing Center

12. Sophie Schneider

13. Sanjeev Menon

14. Hannah Quirk

15. Andzelika Berestko

16. Dalila Oliver

17. Lucas Zeeberg

18. Khadijah Coppin

19. Oleksiy Godz

20. Chong Gu

2. faculty newsletter???

1. WE WANT THIS

2. there’s so much good info in here… condensed into one email instead of a billion campus notices….

3. https://us10.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=ecfdde4853b74a57d3ad4181d&id=eb0a090353 archive

4. hit up communications???

4. eng grad program

1. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0s5anRmq3htd2pNOENNZ29UeVEycDRFRllPekpQUUM5eWVn/view?usp=sharing info packet esc put together

2. people are VERY MAD, understably

3. 4 full scholarships, 4 half scholarships per dept according to dept chairs

4. announcement made after deadline for applications

5. no decisions have been sent out yet

6. meeting w laura on friday at 4 pm

7. should have been announced MUCH sooner

8. might also affect dual degree program

1. start charging?

2. people who have overloaded or taken classes over the summer are screwed over by the 12 credit rule

1. every semester, 12 credits must count towards your undergraduate level

9. goal is to improve grad program

1. but people in the short-term are screwed over

10. there was a ton of discussion and debate in the board about it

11. esc put out a survey to understand impact

5. jed

1. focus groups

1. have happened over the last week

2. good to have an external viewpoint

3. next step is to look @ data

1. we’ll get a report in the summer

4. committee of admin, faculty, students will review the report and develop a 4-year plan

1. everyone’s kind of tired of committees :////

5. establishing communication btwn bot and students

1. can be hard to tell what is confidential and communiques have to be approved by several people

2. also hard to engage people with info anyway

6. archsc - absence policy

1. draft a letter to laura etc. re: absence policy

2. studio vs lecture

7. archsc - ta + mentorship

1. creating a ta program

2. better than mentorship

3. probably for non-studio courses

8. archsc - orientation

1. used to give presentation abt supplies + qna

2. going to revamp and bring this back ;)

April 4th, 2019 5 pm room 106

Present Members: Jeremiah, Ariana, Peter, Yingzhi, Jenna(Carena), Brighton, Sanjna, Jacob, George, Christina, Harris, Olivia, Kirsten, Daniel, Jack, Gabi, Harper

Joey, Ostap, Alexa, Matt

Absent Members: Alex, Jinwook, Omar, Emily, Sanjeev, Michael

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Main Points

ESC take action or not about this announcement/change

6 full per department, ½ for every cooper alum → 4 full, 4 half now per department

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Details

12/11/2018 - Beth emailed saying you’ll get GUARANTEED ½ scholarship to applicants

Sent out email yesterday, saying not everyone will have guaranteed

    ONLY TO CURRENT GRAD APPLICANTS not anyone else

    ONLY TO DEPT CHAIRS not any other faculty

But other programs were closed already, so no other option, also cooper doesn’t require GRE if you are a cooper student, so you’re fucked if you’re gonna go apply for a different program

PROBLEM IS THE TIMELINE/DATE, NOT NEC THE DECISION

Emailed to president sparks, got automated-like reply (x 2)

Last year, 2/13/2018 Faculty Student Senate already talked about this, and addressed the problem, was basically ignored (this is the same thing)

legality?

NOT TARGETING ANYONE SPECIFICALLY

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Some Updates

Pressure from FEC to do this, not clear deadline/pressure

“Optimized” the best they could, looking at numbers and others

Working with data that only released on February

    So why now?

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Officially putting ESC’s name on (passed!) if no reply by TOMORROW

• Pamphlets (info distribution)/ PDF

• Email? (bulkmail)

• No editorialization

• facebook

• Resolution (email vote)

• Current emails drafted/sent

• grievances/concerns

• Faculty Student Senate

• Petition (email vote)

• Non-violent protest

• DO NOT organize on facebook (snitches everywhere)

Attendance

Gabriela Godlewski (CE'19)
Ariana Freitag (EE'20)
Jack Batson (ChE'21)
Michael Lange (ChE'20)
Jenna Scott (CE'21)

Sanjna Rao (ChE)
Alexander Cho (CE) absent
Daniel Kim (EE)

Jinwook Lee (ME)
e Harper Clees-Baron (BSE)

Brighton Huynh (CE)
Omar Thenmalai (EE) absent
Harris Paspuleti (ME)
Emily Frank (BSE) (absent)

Peter Zhao (ChE)
Sanjeev Menon (CE) absent
Yingzhi Hao (EE)
Olivia Park (ME) absent (sick)
Carena Toy (BSE)

Christina Byers (ChE) absent
Kirsten Ondris (CE)
Jacob Maarek (ME)
George Ho (BSE)
Dilara Seyman (ME) (absent)

Agenda:

-E-Board elections

-Summer HSS1

-how 2 get work-study/ cooper-internal jobs /why is that system so shitty

-Constitutional Review

-Eng open forum maybe?

-quick debrief on faculty auction

-Committee Updates

-Open Floor

1. Elections

1. New Ad Chairs are Jack Jenna and Carena

2. Treasurer: Sanjna and Harper (asst)

3. Secretary: Olivia (no asst)

2. Summer HSS1

1. Dean Buckley sent an email to faculty regarding holding an HSS1 class over the summer; seems to be for those who failed? Could also be for incoming freshmen

2. Need more concrete word on this

3. Work Study Issues

1. Jenna says she just “fell into” her multiple work study jobs, but there are others that need a job around Cooper and can’t find one

2. Can we ask for a more central system for job postings?

3. How do we get the word out? Financial aid usually orchestrates work study for students so Jaya Patel could help out with consolidating job availabilities to a central source

4. Could set up something for fall semester

5. How many different pay rolls are there? There’s payroll vs accounts payable (a consistent job is payroll; a program like Invention Factory that awards a stipend is accounts payable)

6. If financial aid could have an info table at fall fest, this would be helpful for getting info out

7. Are we trying to add this to Handshake? Get a new job board? Send email updates?

1. Whatever works, could be on Handshake could just be a public list that Jaya maintains

8. If we had a physical job-board, people could use that; ESC could even help organize it

4. Constitutional Review

1. Having assistant ad chair vs. not

1. Some imagine asst ad chair as an internal review position, who brings fresh eyes to behind the scenes meetings like meetings with Shoop

2. But the discrepancy between assistant and ad chair break down immediately; there’s no practical difference between them

3. Some say best solution is the internal review process goes into the constitution

4. Will discuss role of ad chair AGAIN at next meeting

5. Engineering Open Forum

1. Responsibility of Ad Chairs to host

2. Joint venture between new and old ad chairs

3. Usually do a Thurs club hours

4. Want it to happen THIS SEMESTER

5. Ask your section if people want this to happen!!

6. Will talk to Shoop about this on Wed

6. Faculty Auction

1. Made roughly $3400

2. If you asked a prof to participate, you have to tell them who bought them

3. Going forward: Make outlines for people on how to run this

4. Any feedback?

1. Just make sure the description from the professors is accessible to all students

5. What to do about Serrano’s event that no one bid on?

1. Talk to her and tell her the lack of constraints made people unsure about it (she didn’t put a person limit on her activity, so no one felt the need to bid on it)

2. Could white lie and said we forgot to put it on the list, and publicize the event now to get people to sign up

3. Could have ESC volunteers just sign up

7. Committee Update

1. Curriculum committee: Sanjeev and Jacob looking for alternates

1. Jack Batson and Brighton will be the alternates

2. Usually in 201

2. JAC

1. Goals are:

1. Event feedback google form

2. Modifying event request form

3. Making clear to officers what they need to do

3. Council of Shared Learning

1. Simson (ChemE) and Rafaele (art history) are the two co chairs on it

2. Nicholls, Griffin on the email chain

8. Open Floor

1. Admissions got treated super shittily this year with the renovations and people in administration (not admissions) put off the release of decisions to the last possible day

2. MechE department did interview day with Fermi problems two weeks before decisions were released so that pushed the decision back as well

3. 6 Free sessions is now a soft limit, but we need to clarify this

attendance!

Jeremiah Pratt (EE'19)

Gabriela Godlewski (CE'19)
Ariana Freitag (EE'20) (absent)

Dilara Seyman (ME'20) (med leave)

Jack Batson (ChE'21)
Michael Lange (ChE'20)
Jenna Scott (CE'21)

Sanjna Rao (ChE)
Alexander Cho (CE) (absent)
Daniel Kim (EE)
Jinwook Lee (ME)

e Harper Clees-Baron (BSE) (absent)

Brighton Huynh (CE)
Omar Thenmalai (EE) (absent)
Harris Paspuleti (ME) (sent Brighton as alternate)
Emily Frank (BSE) (med leave)

Peter Zhao (ChE)
Sanjeev Menon (CE) (absent)
Yingzhi Hao (EE) (late)
Olivia Park (ME)
Carena Toy (BSE)

Christina Byers (ChE)
Kirsten Ondris (CE)
Jacob Maarek (ME)
George Ho (BSE)

agenda!

- faculty auction

- constitution review

- misc committee updates

notes!

1. faculty auction

1. happening next monday!

2. pls hit up ur professors if you haven’t already

2. constitution review

1. article two has been amended

1. (insert link here)

2. concerns about changing quorum

1. could lower % needed if necessary?

2. was changed to increase representation on a council

3. any concerns? if so join the committee

1. nothing about write-in candidates

2. revisiting -- a weak vote, may change % quorum

3. misc committee updates

1. laura

1. faculty review committee for grant application

1. two people from cufct, two admins, appropriate dean

2. but…. they’re cross-disciplinary

3. also want to include students and more faculty

2. csl

1. no co-chairs have been announced

3. building repairs and whatnot

1. no new information

4. joint student council

1. no art or arch reps showed up to last meeting… couldn’t discuss it then

2. adchairs will meet and think about it

2. board of trustees

1. flood

1. the usual

2. “non-academic cooper”

1. lack of mental health initiatives, esp regarding substance abuse

3. jsc

1. guest from JED foundation (my boy ethan <3)

1. starting a four-year program to improve mental health infrastructure

4. dean shoop

1. no cs minor has been passed.

1. issues with time to review

2. may be passed over the summer

1. if so, current seniors may be able to retroactively gain it

2. otherwise, current juniors will be the first

2. classroom study

1. how much space do we have? how well do we utilize it?

2. 201 will become a classroom (or, at least, will have IT setup)

3. board (or someone?) already did a space study like two years ago?

3. proctoring

1. offered by esc for free to reduce academic dishonesty

4. strategic planning

1. shoop wants to include students; not clear how he will yet

5. curriculum

1. approved courses:

1. sophomore level cs courses

2. data visualization

3. ethics in artificial intelligence and machine learning

4. mechE master’s (materials in a circular economy)

2. cs minor

1. approved within curriculum committee, just has to pass faculty vote (see above)

6. jac

1. going to look for storage for communal property

1. further in the future

2. google form before you receive reimbursement

1. more comprehensive

2. next semester

3. event report

1. photos of event, advertisements, etc.

2. photos may present an issue for hillel…

3. rubric?

1. won’t be giving scores back

2. impact, club history, event type, request detail, etc.

3. will be given at next meeting

4. enforcing emails and receipts

1. more harsh about the deadline

2. will have to actually email to advertise -- no exceptions!

5. maybe make a list of places posters can be put up?

1. dorms?

1. more strict process for putting them up than in nab or foundation

4. rest of the year

1. 3 more meetings max

2. elections for board

1. elections at next regular meeting?

1. sounds great ;)

2. by week before election

2. submit blurb, speak at meeting if you want to

3. third place in adchair election will be assistant adchair, 2nd place in treasurer will be assistant, 2nd place in secretary will be assistant

3. general elections

4. trying to have constitution be ratified by end of year

5. casual hangout

1. friday 5-7

2. adchairs will be getting food