agenda!

• strategic planning feedback

• changes to jac

• supporting student leaders

• cu medical leave policy

• council on shared learning

• open floor

notes!

1. strategic planning feedback

1. anything?

2. posters near elevators seem pretty thorough

1. made by art alum

2. digital copies available, ask ariana

3. misadvertisement of cooper union

1. first years have said it was advertised to them as a design school. it isn’t.

1. laura spoke on this at art faculty meeting, but not with students when it was brought up

2. architecture school has gotten students and faculty involved with publications for prospective students to reduce that misadvertisement -- potential to expand to all three schools

3. people just assume that bc it’s three tiny schools together that it’s interdisciplinary -- including current students

4. the term “interdisciplinary” is never clear

1. shop in foundation is being expanded to be more useful to all three schools, but shops in nab aren’t

2. according to laura sparks in art faculty meeting, the intent is not to meld all three schools -- there is a limit to interdisciplinarity

5. a push from students to make the intent of the school more clear

1. trails into council on shared learning

2. seems like administration isn’t in a place to make statement on intent of school

2. changes to jac

1. jac is working w office of student affairs to change it up

2. upcoming changes:

1. move up deadline for funding requests

2. more in-depth requests

3. clubs will get feedback abt why they didn’t get funding

4. examples of good vs bad requests will be distributed

5. basically requests will be looked at more holistically

3. jac has been asked to be more scrutinizing by administration

4. roles of student banker and secretary have changed over time

1. roles will be redefined

5. issues w clubs buying equipment, then not keeping it on campus

1. looking into dedicated club storage

6. rubrics and outlines are coming

7. incorporating new rules for new clubs -- nothing is finalized

1. cap on funding per semester -- $250? $500?

8. role of impact on student body in approving/denying funding

3. supporting student leaders

1. mary dwyer wants to do something

2. institutional support

1. training? administrative help?

3. but what’s the bar for student leaders

4. difference between support and rewards

1. rewards are weird -- don’t want to incentivize being a leader just for the sake of the reward

5. talk of receptions after great hall events

1. right now it seems arbitrary which students are invited

2. mary said something about inviting student leaders, but mostly in consensus that it should be more open than that

3. lottery system?

4. will hit up krystal, other relevant people

6. formal vs informal pathways

1. leadership programs

1. workshops

2. informal events -- a la happy hours

1. speeches of gratitude

7. independent study credit as a form of compensation?

1. $$$ compensation for student leaders???

4. cooper medical leave

1. student was promised accomodation after severe medical emergency

1. professors wanted to withdraw them w/o their involvement

2. current process is a mess

1. medical emergency happens. student reaches out to chris chamberlin. he tells student the options (small amt of time, taking the rest of the semester off). student and chris reach out to dean of student’s school. dean and chris work it out with faculty.

1. at least in engineering school, usually the issue is with faculty not holding up to promises

2. issue is generally that the process isn’t formalized

3. different policies for full semester vs a few weeks, month

2. withdrawing isn’t supposed to involve faculty, incomplete does

1. but faculty has ability to withdraw/fail you if you don’t meet attendance requirements, regardless of whether you have illness leave

3. but if process gets formalized, it could be harder to optimize for each case

4. professor and student should have a “””contract””” for illness leave

1. this is what the professor will provide, this is what the student will do

2. this way it’s in writing, professor can’t go back on word

5. council of shared learning

1. recent email from laura sparks

2. jsc and individual student councils will be figuring out how to nominate, elect the 9 student members (3 from each school)

3. unclear what role of student member involves

4. in previous iteration, faculty members would have gotten stipends for sitting on council

1. if it’s the same now, and depending on role of students, should student members get paid?

2. unknown if there’s a precedent for this kind of work

1. student banker and secretary get paid

5. going to wait for more info re: roles, timeline, more info abt council

6. want to appoint faculty by jan 14

1. nominate faculty -- link in email

7. ra application process is something to look at, potentially emulate

1. 2 letters of rec, 4 essays, group processing

6. open floor

1. 3d printing and laser cutting requests

1. issues with optimizing use of 3d printers

2. makerspace provides filament, 3d printers in foundation do not (you have to buy your own)

attendance!

Jeremiah Pratt (EE'19)
Gabriela Godlewski (CE'19)
Ariana Freitag (EE'20)
Dilara Seyman (ME'20) (medical leave)
Jack Batson (ChE'21)
Michael Lange (ChE'20)
Jenna Scott (CE'21)

Sanjna Rao (ChE)
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) (skylar is alternate)
Kirsten Ondris (CE)
Brian Frost-LaPlante (EE) (absent)
Jacob Maarek (ME)
George Ho (BSE)

agenda!

midnight breakfast

open floor

notes!

• laptop usage

• be cool guys

• no official ruling, but do your best

• midnight breakfast

• getting food from frankie’s

• hot food!!!

• they’re bringing coffee and tea

• dietary stuff??

• alexa’s working w kosher stuff

• ariana will figure out vegan stuff

• probably make it beforehand and heat it up

• frozen vegan waffles? pancakes?

• sign up to help!!!

• snacks for next week’s meeting

• getting nachos and chips and salsa and guac

• committee updates

• hss curriculum

• two new art history courses

• pandit won’t be here next semester :((((

• might want to switch, unsure what/if will take its place

• full-time faculty is committed to restructuring

• new working groups, unclear what exactly each group will do, but will figure it out

• open to students

• jac

• minor changes coming for next semester

• instead of individual events, one big spreadsheet

• itemized lists

• emails w feedback abt why not all funding was met

• moving up date by which requests must be sent in by a week

• students would like a list of purchases that will be scrutinized more

• they’re working on it -- dos and don’ts will be sent out for spring

• fix weekly calendar pls!

• open floor

• council on shared learning

• chris chamberlin wants jsc to facilitate student member nominations

• you can nominate faculty members -- check your email

• diversity task force?

• report was supposed to be delivered last wednesday, was pushed back to get feedback

• will be made public soon after the board of trustees sees it

• recommendations range from concrete to abstract to… vague

• 3-d printing rules

• art and architecture students seem unaware of rules, despite being sent the rules

• computer science minor?

• other depts are wary of giving ees so much oversight, basically made for ees

• timeline is pushed back

• move classes like dsa to csxxx? like csxxx instead of ecexxx

• new study lounges

• december 11th is new deadline

• unclear if this includes transformation of 6th and 7th floor lounges

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)
Daniel Kim (EE)
Jinwook Lee (ME)
e Harper Clees-Baron (BSE)

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

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

Christina Byers (ChE)
Kirsten Ondris (CE)
Brian Frost-LaPlante (EE) (absent)
Jacob Maarek (ME)
George Ho (BSE)
Dilara Seyman (ME) (medical leave)

Agenda:

Midnight Breakfast

Committee updates

Open floor

1. Midnight Breakfast

1. Building will go to 24 hr access near finals week

2. We give coffee and breakfast foods at midnight to the student body

3. Almost entirely student run, but Frankie’s sometimes helps out

1. Ad chairs and treasurer will talk to Frankie’s

4. *Ad chairs: figure out when the building goes 24 hours*, Dec 11th is tentative date

5. 3 ppl to buy ingredients

1. Pancake Mix

2. French toast? (was painful)

3. Let’s do waffles!

4. Bagels

5. Frankie’s: hash browns, bacon, sausage,

6. Kosher is possible, and vegan was tough: let’s do vegan cream cheese and maybe store bought vegan waffles

6. 1 person to hit up frankie’s

7. Barrier of people b/w the line and what Frankie’s is offering (bacon ran out in 5 minutes)

8. 5-7 helpers

9. Budget is $350

10. Advertise well

11. Push coffee cart around Foundation

12. Don’t plug everything into one socket

13. Batson and Alexa will run around in elf costume?

2. Committee Updates

1. JAC is being overhauled, but for next year at the earliest

1. Goal is to change constitution

2. Purchases being heavily scrutinized since funding is tight

2. Budget committee: new microwave in Frankie’s!!

1. Batson working on getting holiday decor

2. Floyd needs to clear up what the fire code is before placing decor

3. Let’s make a budget for next semester before this semester ends

1. Batson will make a proposal budget for the next meeting

3. HSS Curriculum committee meeting this week, will be open to students:

1. 12-2 LL101 HSS faculty student meeting (preliminary meeting)

2. 1 hour meeting on Wednesday that will be posted about on Facebook (1-2 room 502) *This is the official meeting with voting*

3. Open Floor

1. An Ad agency in Portland wants to promote adidas at Cooper and give away merchandise during finals week

1. Would need volunteers for this

2. ABET and Middle States accreditation bodies have both highlighted that gender discrimination is a significant problem at Cooper, and this was not recognized by the Dean’s office, who claimed that ABET re-accreditation was a resounding success

3. Diversity Task Force is supposed to submit report to Laura on Wednesday, but the DTF seems to have imploded and there is no report at the moment

1. Restructuring the task force is underway though

4. When will Shoop be here next? Ask Dean Stock

5. Therapy dog session within the next 2 weeks: Appa with Michelle and Harley with Will

1. 3 of our previous dogs retired, one passed away

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)
Daniel Kim (EE)
Jinwook Lee (ME)
e Harper Clees-Baron (BSE)

Brighton Huynh (CE)
Omar Thenmalai (EE)
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)
Brian Frost-LaPlante (EE)
Jacob Maarek (ME)
George Ho (BSE)
Dilara Seyman (ME) (medical leave)

agenda!

-Lockers on the 5th floor (tentative, conditional on meeting with Floyd prior to meeting)
-Laura meeting with Ad Chairs
-Committee Updates
-HSS Protests
-Additional comments/concerns

notes!

1. buildings and grounds

1. floyd

2. big changes!!!

3. by thanksgiving

1. lockers on fifth floor being redistributed

1. get ur stuff out by this friday

2. two rows closest to mailboxes (we think) and one or two rows next to orange cushions

3. maybe this would be a good time to reform locker registration?

2. enclosed study lounge (where the mailboxes are) + pioneer office, couches and tables

4. sixth and seventh floor lounges no longer lounges

1. sixth will be summer stem program

2. seventh floor will be conference room -- open to students when not being used

5. hallways on sixth and seventh floors will be office space

6. getting rid of two floors in 30 cooper (motivation)

7. 201 and 201a will be more communal

8. sounds… very controversial

1. short notice -- very very short notice but it’s bc of contracts in 30 cooper

1. jenna’s editorial: THIS IS AN ABSOLUTELY BUCKWILD TIMELINE

9. NOT FINALIZED!!!!!!!! campus notice should be out in one or two days

1. this is not official

2. this is not official

3. this is not official

4. reminder to self: do not publish this section

10. hole in wall of fifth floor bathroom has been fixed ;)

2. laura

1. adchairs met recently w her

2. hss dean

1. redefining role of hss dean

2. might be an interim dean next year

1. buckley’s term ends this year

3. tech systems

1. gsuite but more likely outlook

1. next year or so

4. menstrual + contraceptive products

1. brought up, workin on it

5. strategic planning

1. students meeting on 7th and 11th

1. she’ll present the plan + take questions

2. info on the posters with the ears

3. external trends vs internal trends

1. “college readiness”

4. internal trends

1. interdisciplinary

2. hard to be a student and hard to be a professor @ cooper

3. committee updates

1. hss faculty

1. occupied by student protestors

2. not officially called

2. jac

1. meeting tmrw to discuss feedback re: allocation process

3. jsc meeting tmrw

4. budget!

1. started w $12.8k last year and are standing at $12k currently

2. proposals

1. cooper merchandise! $300

1. contest open to all schools, student body votes, top three designs get $100 each

2. potentially legal issues? with the official store

3. do it like motorsports? or talk to victoria

4. issues w asking artists to do work w the possibility of being paid instead of being paid outright

5. fails -- needs to be fleshed out more

2. pumpkin painting $150

1. already happened

2. passes

3. midnight breakfast $350

1. standard

2. passes

4. microwave in frankie’s $50

1. tray currently doesn’t spin

2. passes

5. holiday decorations $150

1. gotta talk to floyd abt what we’re allowed to do

2. passes

4. hss protests

1. should esc make some kind of statement?

1. hard to come up with a doc that’s cohesive and representative

2. “comments are not representative of esc” resolution?

1. make it clear that statements are not made with the power of the esc

2. maybe we should just be aware of it as people  -- nothing formal

3. info abt protest planning found @

1. https://thehssmovement.wixsite.com/home, password is hss

2. meeting this wednesday 12-2 in peter cooper suite (8th floor in foundation) (open to all students!!!)

3. thehssmovement@gmail.com

5. open floor

1. send michael lange (lange2@cooper.edu) your headshots and bios. please.

2. also anything re: maintenance can be sent to lange2@cooper.edu

3. testing calendar?

1. will be brought up to chamberlin

4. announcing esc meetings?

1. i’ll (jenna) put up posters ;)

5. curriculum minors?

1. faculty meetings still have to happen

2. the chemical engineering department……….. is setting up road blocks but will probably be fine

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)

Yingzhi Hao (EE)
Olivia Park (ME)
Carena Toy (BSE)

Christina Byers (ChE)
Kirsten Ondris (CE)
Brian Frost-LaPlante (EE)
Jacob Maarek (ME) late
George Ho (BSE)

Dilara Seyman (ME'20) absent

Agenda

Treasurer Update

Committee Updates

HSS/CompSci Minor mumbo jumbo

Buildings and ground jam party

1. Treasurer

1. Jack Batson is stepping up while Dilara is on medical leave

2. Committee Updates

1. Curriculum committee met last week

2. CivE removed Chem160 from freshman year, so now only ChemE and BSE take PChem since ABET requires that CivE has courses outside of physics and chemistry

1. CivE specifically now has to take a course on biotech and environmental engineering

3. Urban transportation planning has been moved from sophomore to freshman year, starts with class admitted next year

4. Two minors on table: Bio and CS

1. Bio minor not voted on, simply proposed to council this meeting, everyone seemed okay with it

2. CS more of an ordeal: presented in full form

1. Take DSA1 and 4-5 courses from a set of electives that are handpicked by EE dept

2. Similar to other university minors

3. Faculty didn’t want to vote on it because they said they haven’t seen it before, even though the full minor was emailed out prior

4. There will be an interim meeting just to vote on the CS minor, date not set yet

5. If it is approved now, current seniors would be able to get the minor if they’ve satisfied the requirement. If it is not approved by the end of the semester, it will only be available for current juniors on

6. CS minor seems highly favorable--members just want to know outcomes and objectives of minor

7. Laura said if you are proposing a minor, every student should have equal entry into the course

3. New MechE course: Sound and Space ME465, taught by Lawless, teaches fundamentals of acoustics

5. FUN Committee!

1. For Halloween, do pumpkin painting contest on Wed Oct 31st 3-6pm.

2. Budget is posted on facebook page: roughly $200

3. Prizes are Halloween themed rubby ducky

4. Professors judge, Jack needs help with getting professors on board

5. Need volunteers to run this--see Facebook page

6. Will be watching a movie during it

7. Budget committee needs to meet and organize

6. FSS met

1. Hiring new vice president for enrollment services since Lipton left

2. Faculty members and admissions committee concerned that the process was not as transparent as it should be

3. FSS wrote resolution to officially ask to be involved in the process

4. Art school is missing in FSS, faculty did not show up

7. HSS Curriculum Comm

1. Discussed minor, see below

2. New person doing scheduling, probably Savizky

3. HSS 1-4 usually only has people from one school in each section b/c of school-specific conflicts, want to do block scheduling

1. Have all HSS1 courses at the same time each day

2. Dean Stock emailed engineering faculty asking them to be in from 9-5 each day to reduce scheduling conflicts

8. HSS Faculty

1. Need stand-in for Dilara on Tuesday Oct 30th

2. Jack Batson and Jenna really struggled to successfully do rock paper scissor shoot, Jack is doing it

3. Buildings and Ground

1. No way for students to file complaints, start google doc?

2. Email Floyd for complaints

3. Floyd said he would create a committee consisting of students and staff to figure out how to move forward

4. We can reach out to Floyd and ask him the best way to give feedback

5. Michael compile complaints***

6. Who do we talk to for IT?

1. WiFi gets really bad in the dorms, Ryan Gambino said he’s not sure if Floyd or Hackner deals with it

2. Work orders don’t work

4. HSS Minor

1. Last year, we compiled a petition for HSS minor that wasn’t delivered to the Eng Fac, has about 200 signatures

1. We can collect more signatures

2. Need 15 HSS credits on top of HSS 1-4 to get the minor, so take 5 classes in your last four semesters

3. That’s a lot for some eng students

4. Malquori (HSS curr chair) said we can move requirements down to 12, which would be more feasible

5. Last year’s outline had no structure, the chairs are working diligently right now to improve it

6. As a council, we could get new signatures and/or draft a resolution to eng school to accept it

7. EEs usually take 4 HSS courses anyway to satisfy non-tech electives, so the minor could be trivial

8. This would have to go through Eng Curr Comm, sending them a list of names that support a minor won’t be productive for them

1. They look at schedule and how the change would impact student life

2. The faculty might not like a minor that would make students take additional classes, since they are worried about spreading students too thin

3. If we had a presentation along with the minor, it would be more helpful in convincing them--show them student life and how we would benefit

4. Dean Buckley said he will present it already

9. What is the timing of this? Ariana will ask at next meeting, they meet biweekly.

10. Do we want to write an ESC resolution supporting this?

1. Ariana mentioned the minor was not well planned last year which is why it got pushed back, if we had a more robust plan in place it could be more attractive to eng faculty

2. Petition and resolution may not be necessary if it is well planned

3. For FSS, Stock and Keene said we should send the number of signatures we have on to Eng Curr Comm

4. The minor required 138 to graduate, not 135, and that is a big reason why it was denied

5. A petition does the same work as a resolution so we don’t need both.

6. If the plan isn’t good, and we pass a resolution, we look uncredible

7. A lot of people were ambivalent towards the HSS minor

11. For freshmen, do we just collect a list of names from our sections? How do we describe the minor to them?

1. Ariana will bring in the minor next meeting for us to see

2. Minors in literature, in society and history, art history, and economics (?)

3. Wait to collect signatures until we have something more formalized to show

5. CS Minor

1. Cannot use 400 level courses for both minor and master’s courses

2. Can use up to 6 credits from your required courses to count towards minor

3. Classes from every major included on list

4. EE interest in CS minor is not holistic representation of student support

5. Students taking grad courses to satisfy undergrad requirements cannot use them to satisfy graduate requirements, which lead to a shortage of grad courses

1. Using grad courses to satisfy CS minor will make it even harder to satisfy graduate degree requirements

6. Open Floor

1. Davis wants to bring back a “Student’s List” instead of a Dean’s list for best professors

1. It stopped b/c faculty told students it was out of their jurisdiction, it became more of a course evaluation than a vote for favorite professor

2. Diversity Task Force

1. Keene and Toni Torres, who chair the Task Force, have to deliver recommendations in a month or two to Laura!

3. Orange cushions are in 7th flr SL, will be moved back to 5th floor