Agenda:

Ariana Freitag

Sanjeev Mannon

Kathryn Copeland

Dilara

Carena

Gabby

Michael Lange

Jeremiah Pratt

Anton Luz

Toby Stein

Daniel Galperin

Marianne Tymocz
Blossom Soifer

Max Summers

Jason Katz

Jisoo Park

Michael Pasternak

Absent:senior ChemEs, romaniya, charlie cheng

Agenda:

Committee Updates

JSC/Code of Conduct

Constitution Ratification

WOT

1. Committee Updates

1. Library has nothing new

2. Public events won't start up again until next fall

3. HSS

1. Working on HSS minor for engineers, Stock waiting for Germano to help him out with this

2. The class of 2019 will be first year eligible! 6 disciplines to choose from

3. Having specific tracks is too restricting for students, might be nice to have a general option

4. Romaniya and Toby are on this committee

5. Class of 2019 will probably have to “back-qualify” for this major at this point, because Stock and Germano are not fully establishing what the requirements are for this

1. B/c of the lack of information, we can’t publicize this to the school yet. Germano and Stock need to get on this

4. Fun committee

1. Who is available to help out during midnight breakfast?

2. Code of Conduct

1. New CoC approved, but new language to allow for an appeals process by an assailant or a victim will be discussed and voted on tomorrow (current language only allows assailants to appeal I think)

2. Some people feel that the new document outlines an appeal process that doesn’t fit with the proposed new language

3. Some people think this needs more thought because the new language is vague

4. Language to be voted on is in ESC group

3. New constitution ratified

4. Voting

1. 5 more days of voting or tabling voting to the fall

2. Don't need plurality in the fall if you run unopposed, but this would be a re-election for sections w/o a representative

1. People are annoyed about voting now, and will.also be annoyed about voting in the fall

3. If there is a tie, a re-election is called

4. Can we change our votes? Probably not, but Toby will ask Chris Watkins

5. **Will keep voting open for midnight breakfast and require people to vote to get food, then any section still unrepresented will be voted upon in the fall**

6. Update on plurality will happen after the meeting

5. Wots

1. Propose 2 committees to work over summer:

1. Party committee with Dan as chair

1. Funding from ESC

2. 5 ppl on this committee plus the chair

3. Probably around $3000

4. Mary, Ariana, Kathryn, Blossom, Marianne (Dan as Chair)

2. Make a case that this is a better engineering school than others

1. Want quantitative and qualitative evidence of this

2. Exercise in gathering information

3. 25% of students take master’s credits, people take hard classes for fun

4. Should understand what donors would look for

5. Motorsports does fundraising like this

6. Creating a narrative more so than attracting donors--could pass this along to Communications

7. “Narrative Committee” or “marketing Committee”

8. Can we make certain spins on Cooper things, like representing master’s classes as overachieving, in an honest way?

9. We don’t know who we would present this to.  Collect information and hand it over to Communications team

10. Donors vs. sponsors

11. 10 people will be on the committee and will figure out how to divvy up the work :

1. Michael Pasternak

2. Mary (Chair)

3. Dan Galperin

4. Ariana

5. Kathryn

6. Gabriela

7. Blossom

8. Sanjeev

9. Jeremiah

10. Toby

11. Michael Lange

2. Registration

1. Changed to 9 am to help architects (historically)

3. MacArthur Foundation committee

1. Mary

2. Me

3. Gabriela G

4. Kathryn

5. Sanjeev

6. Ariana

7. Carena

4. Female engineering stories pass along to Mary, could be miniseries about Cooper Union

1. Pasternak

2. Mrianne

3. Anton

4. Ariana

5. Kathryn

6. Sanjeev

7. Mary

April 24th, 2017

Attendance:

Sanjeev Menon

Ariana Freitag

Dilara Seyman

Kathryn Copeland

Carena Toy

Michael Lange

Jeremiah Pratt

Charlie Cheng

Gabriela Godlewski

Marianne Tymocz

Daniel Galperin

Toby Stein

Anton Luz

Blossom Soifer

Jason Katz

JIsoo Park

Michael Pasternak

Romaniya V.
Max Summers

Jordan V.

urer to constitution

**Form resolution to amend Constitution to add Assistant Treasurer position

Agenda:

1. Elections

1. Ad Chairs: Dan and Toby

2. Ass. Ad Chair: Jeremiah Pratt

3. Sec: Michael Lange

4. Treas.: Gabby

5. Assistant Treas. Dilara

6. Motion accepted to add Assistant Treasurer to Constitution

Attendance:

Carena Toy

Sanjeev Mennon

Dilara Seyman

Kathryn Coopeland

Ariana Freitag

Michael Lange

Jeremiah Pratt

Gabriela G.

Charlie Cheng

Tobias Stein

Daniel Galperin

Anton Luz

Jessica Marshall (Jason Katz’s alternate)

Max Summers
Romaniya

Jisoo

Michael Pasternak

Monica Abdallah/Jordan V.

Absent:

Romaniya

Jisoo

Marianne

Jordan V.

Agenda:

1. dean search updates

2. committee updates

3. final (pls) constitution review

4. elections (chairs, secretary, treasurer)

5. WOtS

1. Dean Search Updates

1. Past 2 weeks ad chairs have been meeting with the 4 candidates.  The pros and cons of each candidates are being presented to Laura, and she will decide

2. Info about each candidate

1. Care for undergrad ed, entrepreneurship, push to undergraduate research, pro-flip classroom style (less lecture more group work) (note the dean cannot actually change the teaching style directly), hourglass position of Dean, wants better industry representation of Cooper

1. Ad chairs felt she was bland, insincere, probably the worst candidate

2. Asked about outward facing vs inward facing dean, school is probably looking for outward facing

2. “Why Cooper?” Advanced role for them, wants more interdisciplinary work, keeps current trends in education in mind, project based learning, outward facing if inward forcing is handled elsewhere, has had associate dean (inward facing) position at an Ivy league school, understands financial situation, wants to address scheduling

1. Misc. PhD level physicist wrote Dynamics textbook

2. Asked about what do you do for fun, reads people well

3. Liked the most by ad chairs

4. Has experience dealing with stubborn faculty

5. Warning: Faculty thinks this person is not going to look for consensus, while is Dahlberg-esque, and scaring the faculty

3. K-20 engineering education, facetime is necessary in industry, prioritize diversity, admission requirements shift from score base to holistic, must address disruption in engineering (as a field, a study), values alumni donations and relations and scholarships, **this candidate read the pioneer for the past two years and asked about Gabby’s mental health article**, **don’t distract yourselves with the four letter word free, focus on alumni relations, while this could be troubling, Laura also said the same thing**,

1. We haven’t been truly free regardless of background because there are thresholds to education that Cooper has inadvertently put in place (more on this later)

2. Biggest change candidate with references to disruption, he doesn’t exactly know that big overhauls won’t go over well here

3. Nuanced issue regarding women admissions

4. Why Cooper? Hated undergrad engineering edu, hated researcher focus over teaching focus, Cooper offers nonresearch focused undergrad edu, shift from blackboard to design classes and project based work, had a lot of inward ideas on how to teach and include entrepreneurial skills, hands on courses, was not a fan of how many classes we take, taught 10 courses at uni level, 4 of which were created by the candidate, very personable, worried about how the faculty would view this candidate

1. Shift in curriculum would change how professors teach courses

2. Asked ad chairs which classes were useless

5. Opinions are very mixed around the school

1. Ad chairs think no one incredibly bad, no one incredibly bored

2. Could also be no decision

6. Lots of buzzwords thrown around (disruption, flip classroom), all candidates didn’t completely get the vibe here

7. First candidate mentioned interdisciplinary work WITHIN engineering school, second candidate mentioned ID work amongst all the schools

2. Committee Updates

1. Library Committee

1. Their budget is tight, must cut $54000 for next year,

2. If they wanted library open to 11 pm everyday, need $36000, if 10 pm everyday would need $28000

2. FSS met, passed document we discussed last week

1. Meeting with Laura and Chris about Code of Conduct

3. FUN committee

1. Building 24 hrs next Wed, lets do midnight breakfast soon

1. Make pancakes and buy food

2. Kathryn Sanjeev ariana max, anton dilara, gab, romaniya carena want to help

4. HSS curriculum meeting tomorrow

1. Will discuss HUM minor (5 extra HSS classes)

2. Would be specialized, for example American Literature or Sociology

3. Arch has HSS minor

4. Must pass HSS council, Engineering Curriculum council, Dean’s office, Presidents Office, Trustees, so could begin in two academic years at the earliest

5. JAC feedback forum

1. People who show up to these meetings regarding how funding goes will decide the future

3. In light of recent event, we discussed suicide and mental health awareness resources at Cooper

1. Lack of acknowledgement in engineering school, Laura is aware of this

2. Sensitivity training for profs (Laura touched on this)

MEETING ADJOURNED EARLY, will continue with agenda at a later point in time.

Attendance:

Dilara Seyman

Ariana Freitag

Kathryn Copeland
Sanjeev Mennon
Carena Toy

Michael Lange

Gabriela G.

Jeremiah Pratt

Charlie Cheng

Toby Stein

Daniel Galperin

Blossom Soifer

Anton Luz

Michael Pasternak (Late)

Monica Abdallah (Jordan V. ChemE senior)

Jason Katz

Max Summers

Romaniya V.

Where’s Jisoo, Marianne,

Agenda:

1. Code of Conduct

2. Final Const Review

3. Committee Updates

4. ESC Elections

5. Diversity @ Cooper updates

6. Dean Search Updates

7. OPT, CPT for Intls

8. WOS

1. Code of Conduct

1. Bullying moved from Class B to A

2. How do I use this doc to protect my rights?

3. Hearings will now include Chris Chamberlin, as well as students, faculty, and lawyer

4. You will be put on probation if you violate this code, and the hearing committee can lift that

5. Only applies to students and student-student interaction

2. Constitution

1. Edited purpose; issues of constituencies changed to resolve student issues.  Meeting next Monday to hash out changes

3. Committee Updates

1. Curriculum--Circuits taken out of ChemE courseload (Class of 2019 has to take it b/c of contract, will extend to current freshmen)

1. Cannot use grad credits from undergraduate electives as progress towards your degree.  This is an enforcement of policy, not a change in policy. (no double counting)

2. Applies to thesis and non thesis option

3. Old Rule: 6 credits can carry over from 300 courses, unless you do a thesis, in which case 400 can carry over

4. Hard to enforce because of lack of grad courses offered

5. Can Stock/Raja send out an email explaining how this would work?

2. JAC-reworking whole money awarding system

1. Goal is strictness and transparency;

2. Meeting again this week w/ Watkins

3. Send suggestions to Jason Katz

4. ESC Elections

1. Next meeting

2. Anyone can run

3. Just for Cabinet! Literally anyone can run. Voted on internally by current reps.

4. 30 sec to 1 min long speech if running opposed.

5. Diversity

1. Forum had low turnout, but was effective

2. Sex and Pancakes type event, small groups.

3. Freshmen either slept through the orientation event about this, or got something from it when they participated

1. An RA thinks the event wasn’t effective, and RA staff isn't qualified to run a comprehensive workshop about this

2. Diversity Council wants to create mentor program with mandatory training (student mentors)

4. Try to hire more female faculty

1. Make Cooper more attractive to females, like with providing time off, etc

5. Advertise the school better at all female schools, increase female visibility on website

6. Presenting to FSS tomorrow

7. *Merit scholarships for women is a bad idea (MERIT IDEA SCRATCHED)

1. Doesn't make women feel equal, could fuel argument that women dont deserve to be here

2. But also, other schools give incentive packages to women, which is why we have low enrollment here

3. Would be better if third party group could do this

4. Could give women at the top of their class scholarships (semesterly or yearly look at Cooper GPAs and the top X% get merit)

1. But this creates competition

8. We don’t have professional development geared towards women specifically, so instead of giving merit scholarships to women and causing controversy, funds could be put towards a program like this

1. No one talks about how women should dress, for example, since there are so many unwritten rules about this

9. Publicize statistics on percent of women who go here, and percent of them at the top of the class, and if the statistics show women are performing very well, we should publicize this

1. This might be illegal though b/c of FERPA

6. Dean Search

1. 4 candidates, Ad Chairs interview the candidates separate from faculty

1. Will update us when all four interviews are over

2. More interviews over 2 weeks

3. Ask about their background and why they want to work there, and give them info on Cooper

1. Pass along info to ad chairs that you want the Dean to know

4. Meeting w Laura next Thursday, then meeting with faculty members after that (which is weird)

5. Laura has final say, so it’ll be at least 2-3 weeks before she decides

7. OPT/CPT

1. OPT is optional practice training

1. Must work in field related to major for a restricted amount of day

2. Can get this counted as CPT if the Dean approves it so that you don't eat away at your OPT days, which allow you to stay in the country after graduation

2. Schools usually give credits for internship so that it's legal, but the school doesn't do that.

1. But don't want to give students money and credit at the same time

3. Dean just needs to sign off that the internship is relevant to the major for CPT

4. Need John Falls for both OPT/CPT but he’s not here. So if Dean signs as John falls, who is going to sign as the Dean.

5. 90 Day lag time for Summer 2017.

6. DIRECT people to Ad Chairs, Dean, Newmark

8. WOTS

1. Registration moved to 9 am on 18th.

Attendance:

Carena Toy

Kathryn Copeland

Sanjeev Mennon

Ariana Freitag

Dilara Seyman (Late)

Michael Lange

Jeremiah Pratt

Gabriela Godlewski

Zhiyi Cheng

Blossom Soifer

Marianne Tymocz (Late)

Daniel Galperin

Toby Stein

Anton Luz

Michael pasternak (Late)

Romaniya V.

Max Summers

Jason Katz (Victor Lei substituting)

Jordan Varghese (Late)

Jisoo Park (ABSENT)

Agenda:

1. Committee Updates

2. We need to spend the money

3. Final Constitution Review

4. Constitution Additions (Combined with 3)

5. WOtS

1. Committee Updates

1. Library Committee

1. Laura and Chris hounding the library

2. FUN Committee

1. Well we gotta spend the money…

2. Lima had design workshop a month ago, and groups from this are reorganizing parts of the school.  Gabby is trying to make LL1 a temporary student lounge/space

1. Putting Menschel furniture in LL101 for the weekend

3. IT

1. Havent heard from Watkins

4. Curriculum Comm next week

2. We need to spend the money

1. More therapy dogs

2. May 4th Star Wars Marathon Rose

3. Tennis balls for putting on chair/desk legs

4. Teachers vs Students games:tug of war, pool, basketball, chess, darts

1. Peter Cooper Park!!

5. Jolie is down for headshots

6. BBQ (need months to get permit, use for fall welcome)

7. Student research fund

1. Need a committee and system of ethics to determine who gets money

2. What about specifically for interdisciplinary projects?

3. Gabriela, ariana, dan, mary, carena, michael for committee to define this!

8. Buying leftover textbooks and putting them in study lounges?

9. Think of shit to do for profs as well

3. Final Constitution Review

1. No changes to Article 7 and 8

2. New cabinet positions are determined at the last meeting in the spring

1. This makes people hit the ground running, so maybe we should move the election period to a month before the end of the term so that people can adapt to their new roles

2. It is ok for non-reps to hold admin positions, people outside ESC can run for these positions

3. Should occur before ESC elections

4. Overlap time period left up to council each year

3. Our Purpose

1. See Jeremiah and Dan’s final version of the constitution, include touchpoint b/w students and faculty