A Meeting of the Student Government Senatewill Be Held on Wednesday, October 26, 2016 At
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
9:00 – 11:00 a.m.
Coville Conference Room
Notice
- NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to the general public and to all members of the CSU Channel Islands Student Government that:
A meeting of the Student Government Senatewill be held on Wednesday, October 26, 2016 at 9:00 a.m. at California State University Channel Islands, Student Union Conference Room (room 1080), located at One University Drive, Camarillo, CA 93012, to consider and act upon the following matters:
Call to Order
- Call to Order– 9:00 a.m.
- Roll Call
- President – Michelle Noyes (P)
- Vice President – Marlene Pelayo(P)
- Senate
- Academic Affairs – Travis Hunt(P)
- Alumni, Graduate & Credential –Kiera Sailor (P)
- Commuters & Transportation –
- Housing & Residential Education –Elizabeth Heim(P)
- Social Justice – Mia Fernandez (P)
- Student Engagement – Noelle Ewing(A)
- Sustainability & Technology – Raul Perez(P)
- Veterans & Non Traditional – Nathan Altman(P)
- Wellness & Recreation – Debora Ehrich(P)
- Executive
- Director of External Affairs – Carla Mena(P)
- Director of Operations – Karina Hinojosa (P)
- Director of Events – Alexis Mumford (P)
- Chief of Staff – Angela Christopher(A)
- Judicial
- Chief Justice – Brandon Burns(P)
- Advisor –
- Bethany Bañuelos (P)
- Members of the public
- Approval of the Agenda
- Motion to approve the agenda by Senator Heim
- Seconded by Senator Perez
- 7-0-0
- Approval of the Minutes
- Motion to approve the minutes by Senator Perez
- Seconded by Senator Hunt
- 7-0-0
Public Forum
Public forum is intended as a time for any member of the public to address the Senate on issues affecting any student(s) and/or organizations of California State University Channel Islands.
Special Presentations
None
Business
- New Business
- Action Item –
- Informational Item
- CSSA Update – President Noyes and Director Mena (15 minutes)
- Passed the shared governments definition as follows: the right to consistent collaboration among students, faculty, staff and administration in any decision making that impacts the campus and its community
- CSSA wants to tackle mental health awareness, this could be a good opportunity for CI to have a similar campaign on our campus
- Potential tuition increase
- CI can work on lobbying efforts to try and persuade legislatures to vote in favor of the CSU system
- Phone banking could be beneficial
- CI can get students to fill out postcards that would then be sent to the governor
- Tabling Etiquette and CSSA tabling – President Noyes, Director Mena, and Director Mumford (15 minutes)
- SG will be tabling October 24th, 25th, November 2nd,3rd for CSSA, voter registration and encouraging CI students to donate to our food pantry
- Discussion Item
- Student Government Logo – President Noyes (5 minutes)
- Director Mena and Mumford like the white lines that go into the half circles and they like the stars
- Senator Altman does not like the white lines or stars
- Senator Sailor likes the new logo
- Maximus Questions –Director Mumford (25 minutes)
- Maximus is an award that is given during the legacy awards
- Students must nominate a faculty/staff/administration/student for this award
- This is a student government award
- Vice President states that maybe the student government and ASI member should be removed from the selection committee so that it isn’t too ASI driven
- President Noyes disagrees with Vice President Pelayo since it is a Student Government award, Student Government should have a voice on who wins
- Director Mumford is the chair for this award however she does not have a vote for the person that wins the award
- The committee is made up of students from different constituent groups on campus, different centers/services recommends a student to Director Mumford that would represent that center/service
- President Noyes recommends that maybe a student that is not involved with any of the centers should be on the committee to represent the everyday student (student at large position)
- President Noyes recommends that students should include how the person they nominate has mentored or led in their specific areas/how has this person had an impact on you (stated by Senator Hunt)
- Vice President Pelayo believes question 3 should be removed and question 1 should be edited, in addition the questions should be more personal
- Senator Altman recommends we remove questions 1, 2 and 3 and split question 4 into two questions
- Director Mumford would like an additional hour for changing the questions as a discussion item in a later meeting
- Blackboard – Professor Jill Leafstedt (1 hour)
- Starting in the spring we are going to pilot Canvas, a new learning management system that CI may start using
- 10 classes (a goal of 400 students) will be using canvas in the spring to see how students react to this new program
- Community colleges and some CSUs have/will begin to start using Canvas as well
- Director Mumford states that her personal experience is that Canvas is not student friendly while Desire to learn (another program) is easier for students
- Senator Sailor expresses concern of information being lost and Professor Leafstedt mentions that though they have not addressed this concern yet, information will not be lost for a set amount of time so that students can access this information and save it beforehand
- Either way Blackboard will be changing within 2 years, so there really is no way to “stay the same”
- Unfinished Business –
- Informational Item - none
- Discussion Item –
- Action Item - none
Reports
Reports presented by the following shall be attached with all weekly packets. Weekly packets will consist of agenda, any supporting documents, minutes, and reports.
- Senator Reports
- Vice President’s Report
- President’s Report
- Executive Branch Report
- Judicial Report
- Advisor Report
Adjournment
- Closing Comments
- Adjournment– 10:06 a.m.
- Motion to adjourn by Senator Hunt
- Seconded by Senator Heim
- 6-0-0