/ Student Government Senate Minutes
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
9:00 – 11:00 a.m.
Coville Conference Room

Notice

  1. 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

  1. Call to Order– 9:00 a.m.
  2. Roll Call
  3. President – Michelle Noyes (P)
  4. Vice President – Marlene Pelayo(P)
  5. Senate
  6. Academic Affairs – Travis Hunt(P)
  7. Alumni, Graduate & Credential –Kiera Sailor (P)
  8. Commuters & Transportation –
  9. Housing & Residential Education –Elizabeth Heim(P)
  10. Social Justice – Mia Fernandez (P)
  11. Student Engagement – Noelle Ewing(A)
  12. Sustainability & Technology – Raul Perez(P)
  13. Veterans & Non Traditional – Nathan Altman(P)
  14. Wellness & Recreation – Debora Ehrich(P)
  15. Executive
  16. Director of External Affairs – Carla Mena(P)
  17. Director of Operations – Karina Hinojosa (P)
  18. Director of Events – Alexis Mumford (P)
  19. Chief of Staff – Angela Christopher(A)
  20. Judicial
  21. Chief Justice – Brandon Burns(P)
  22. Advisor –
  23. Bethany Bañuelos (P)
  24. Members of the public
  1. Approval of the Agenda
  2. Motion to approve the agenda by Senator Heim
  3. Seconded by Senator Perez
  4. 7-0-0
  5. Approval of the Minutes
  6. Motion to approve the minutes by Senator Perez
  7. Seconded by Senator Hunt
  8. 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

  1. New Business
  2. Action Item –
  3. Informational Item
  4. CSSA Update – President Noyes and Director Mena (15 minutes)
  5. 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
  6. CSSA wants to tackle mental health awareness, this could be a good opportunity for CI to have a similar campaign on our campus
  7. Potential tuition increase
  8. CI can work on lobbying efforts to try and persuade legislatures to vote in favor of the CSU system
  9. Phone banking could be beneficial
  10. CI can get students to fill out postcards that would then be sent to the governor
  11. Tabling Etiquette and CSSA tabling – President Noyes, Director Mena, and Director Mumford (15 minutes)
  12. SG will be tabling October 24th, 25th, November 2nd,3rd for CSSA, voter registration and encouraging CI students to donate to our food pantry
  13. Discussion Item
  14. Student Government Logo – President Noyes (5 minutes)
  15. Director Mena and Mumford like the white lines that go into the half circles and they like the stars
  16. Senator Altman does not like the white lines or stars
  17. Senator Sailor likes the new logo
  18. Maximus Questions –Director Mumford (25 minutes)
  19. Maximus is an award that is given during the legacy awards
  20. Students must nominate a faculty/staff/administration/student for this award
  21. This is a student government award
  22. 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
  23. President Noyes disagrees with Vice President Pelayo since it is a Student Government award, Student Government should have a voice on who wins
  24. Director Mumford is the chair for this award however she does not have a vote for the person that wins the award
  25. 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
  26. 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)
  27. 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)
  28. Vice President Pelayo believes question 3 should be removed and question 1 should be edited, in addition the questions should be more personal
  29. Senator Altman recommends we remove questions 1, 2 and 3 and split question 4 into two questions
  30. Director Mumford would like an additional hour for changing the questions as a discussion item in a later meeting
  31. Blackboard – Professor Jill Leafstedt (1 hour)
  32. Starting in the spring we are going to pilot Canvas, a new learning management system that CI may start using
  33. 10 classes (a goal of 400 students) will be using canvas in the spring to see how students react to this new program
  34. Community colleges and some CSUs have/will begin to start using Canvas as well
  35. Director Mumford states that her personal experience is that Canvas is not student friendly while Desire to learn (another program) is easier for students
  36. 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
  37. Either way Blackboard will be changing within 2 years, so there really is no way to “stay the same”
  1. Unfinished Business –
  2. Informational Item - none
  3. Discussion Item –
  4. 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.

  1. Senator Reports
  2. Vice President’s Report
  3. President’s Report
  4. Executive Branch Report
  5. Judicial Report
  6. Advisor Report

Adjournment

  1. Closing Comments
  2. Adjournment– 10:06 a.m.
  3. Motion to adjourn by Senator Hunt
  4. Seconded by Senator Heim
  5. 6-0-0