Student Senate Minutes

I. General meeting of the Student Senate was called to order by Speaker Hogan at 6:05 PM.
	A. Absent from the meeting were members: 
	B. Also attending the meeting was: 
II. Preliminary Items
	A. Roll Call
	B. Corrections/Approval of the minutes
	C. Gallery introductions/business - Britney Hendrix and Stephanie McGrew AKA 	Sorority Inc. Index
		A.  AKA - March 31st-April 5th is their week of service. Need financial 			help bringing in a speaker. This fits in with Senate’s Diversity Week. He 			usually charges $6,000 but he is offering to speak for $2,000. Each event 			in the past has been attended by about 200 people. Omar Tyree is a 				motivational speaker and will be speaking on entrepreneurship and the 			“equation of life.” 
		- Esfeld - Have you applied for FAC funding?
		- AKA - Last semester they did not apply because the cost was going to be 			$6,000. They thought they wouldn’t get funding so they didn’t apply. Now 		that the cost is lower, they would like to bring him in.
		- Esfeld - This crosses burdens with FAC. Because it is not integrated into 			our own Diversity Week, unsure if she would support funding the event.
		- AKA - Feels it could be incorporated with Diversity Week. Working 			with organizations to expand events. Would love to collaborate. 
		- Crump - Sees Lizz’s concern. What does this have to do with Diversity?
		- AKA - Tyree’s main goal is to inspire young minorities. He will explain 			his success story to motivate diverse peoples. They have a snippet of one 			of his speeches from another university. Feels this message can be 				beneficial to any crowd of students.
		- Alberts - When would he be coming (April 2nd). 
		- Russell - Are you asking for funding from anyone else? Have you been 			successful?
		- AKA - The MAC would be unable to fund them. Contacted Damon from 		the CSI and waiting for reply.	 AKA is a small organization with limited 			funds.
	D. Guests of Honor
	E. Membership Issues
	F. Appointments/Administration of the Oath
	G. Changes/Approval of the agenda
III. Executive Reports
	A. Secretary - No report.
	B. Treasurer - Couple people have outstanding money motions. Talk to Philip. 	Use the copy log. 
	C. President - MHEC is this Wednesday and Thursday. Will be leaving at 1:00 		PM. University Conference Day is this Thursday. Professor Ratings system is up. 	Trying to get Greg Marshall here to give a presentation. Faculty Senate wants a 	disclaimer concerning professor’s right to change things. If you are approached by 	an RHA member with concerns, please send them to Lizz.
	D. Vice President - Meeting tonight at 9 with the SOC. Old UGC is out and the 	new has convened. Went over rules concerning graduation. Talking about a new 	minor geared towards students going into health/business areas using Spanish. Be 	on the lookout for a retreat doodle. 
IV. Auxiliary Reports
	A. Faculty Advisor - Curriculum Commission is the big gossip. This Thursday is 	not a day off it is a day ON! Faculty Forum this Monday at 7 in MG 2001 with 	Wolfgang Hoeschle. 
	B. Staff Advisor - This week will be busy. 17th and 18th from 7:30-9:30 Student 	Affairs is holding an open forum to talk about efficiencies. Administration will 	not be speaking it is just for the students opinions.
	C. BOG - Pershing is being funded by MOHELA money. Will be getting $10 	million (half of what was expected). Work will be done in two phases. 
	D. Speaker - Will try and be better with agenda reminder emails. Finally have 	design for t-shirts. Woo. 
V. Committee Reports
	A. Academic Affairs - Finalizing stuff for University Conference Day tomorrow. 	Attend one of the Career Center Budget meetings. You get pizza and help make 	the Career Center better. Woo. 
	B. External Affairs - MHEC this week. STC posters are in the office so grab them 	and put them up. Write letters during your office hour. If you want to go to STC, 	there is an info session tomorrow at 7 in the SUB Down Under. 
	C. Student Affairs - Conduct Code update will be presented to Ex Comm this 	week and to Senate this Sunday. 
		i. Campus Diversity - No report.
		ii. Campus Environment - Collaborating with the Missouri Conservation 			Department and Truman Grounds Crew. Going to have a statement written 		asking the Ground Crew to be more environmentally conscious. Green Tab 		may be a Green Box on Truview. President’s Environmental Committee 			will be meeting this Friday and will be presenting the Truman 				Sustainability Initiative. 
	D. Technology - Technology Vision document in draft form is complete. It 	promises to be a “page turner.” This is a five year vision document.
	E. Other Reports
		i. Historian
		ii. Communications Director
		iii. Webmaster
		iv. Ethics Justice
		v. Recruitment
		vi. Legislative Director
		vii. Constitutional Review
VI. Old Business
VII. Money Motions
	A. Wickell - Moves $1100 ($650 for an extra bus and $450 for extra food) for 	Storm the Capitol be spent no later than February 25, 2009.
		- Wickell - With just APO and Senate members we will be filling the first 			bus. Need a second bus in order bring more students. The $450 for food 			will probably not be totally spent but at least it will be there.
		- Esfeld - How much will it be total? ($2450).
		- Passes. 
VIII. First Readings
	A. Wickell - Moves first reading of resolution supporting governor Nixon’s 	budget proposal. 
		- Wickell - We want to support Governor Nixon’s higher education budget 		proposal for 2010. Are there any questions? Be honest, this is her first res.
		- Esfeld - Looks good. Add more stuff to the where as clauses relating to 			the letter writing campaign bullets.
		- Hogan - What are we hoping to accomplish by this? 
		- Alberts - Official opinions are resolutions. 
IX. Discussion Items
	A. Robinson - Moves 10 minutes of discussion time on the resolution to recognize 	Sue Limestall
		- Robinson - Recognizing Sue Limestall for her willingness to get up and 			allowing the ROTC and the Football Team to use the rec before opening 			two times a week.
		- Esfeld - Other than formatting issues, has some grammatical issues. 
	B. Russell - Moves 10 minutes of discussion time on office supplies.
		- Crump - Lots of staples no stapler.
		- Gilmor - Will go to bookstore and purchase supplies. There is money in 			the budget for it.
X. Other New Business
	A. Alberts - Director of Portfolio Project. The portfolio project assesses student’s 	work to judge Truman. Students currently submit 7 items. Would like to change it 	in advance of the new curriculum in order to see what should be measured. 	Currently rates critical thinking and interdisciplinary thinking. Currently the 	portfolio is submitted online. There are prompts for each submission and a place 	to upload documents. Faculty members get together in groups of 20 in May and 	discuss what is interdisciplinary/critical thinking. Thinking about phasing out the 	mode based prompt all together. Also considering having Freshman/Sophomores 	submit documents and then giving early more effective feedback. There have been 	some other prompt suggestions. Most people do portfolio in their senior seminar 	class.
		- Jenkins - Doesn’t understand the need for extra reflection and feedback. 			Since it is during the Senior year, if you don’t have it by now you won’t 			have it.
		- Alberts - We want to know if you got it to assess Truman. A lot of 			students enjoy looking back to reflect on work. There is also the idea that 			your grade is not the successfulness of your paper. 
		- Jenkins - Feels like a lot of work for just assessment.
		- Alberts - Proposing to get rid of half of the submissions. Get rid of three 			and add one.
		- Russell - Has already done her portfolio. Understands that it is a boring 			process but it is not about the student individually. Its about the entire 			student body. Would personally remove scientific thinking prompt because 		she does not have an example of it.
		- Esfeld - LOVES the portfolio. I believe she said the words “bad-ass.” 			Would like it to be more of an assessment for the student. Results from 			Curriculum Survey show that the portfolio based model did not do well.
XI. Announcements
	A. No Ex Comm this week. 
	B. Sending out Technology Report. Look at it.
	C. Go to one of the Career Center budget meetings.
	D. STC session tomorrow and the 23rd at 7 PM in the SUB Down Under
	
Adjourned at 7:23 PM. 
Respectfully submitted by Secretary Piel on