ASUCI Senate Minutes |
ASUCI Senate Minutes Date 02/13/18 Called to Order by Gurneel at 5:08pm Attendance Person came in late at Person left early at Jiang 6:26pm Wan 6:39pm Approval of Minutes Motion: Lim Second: Hong Approval of Agenda Motion: Hong Second: Lim Public Comment NONE Executive Officer Reports President: Lydia President Lydia Natoolo is late, so Chief of Staff Annie Le makes the Exec Officer Reports: ASUCI Town Hall is this Thursday (2/15) from 5- 7 pm at UCI Student Center Terrace. Please, encourage students to attend and submit questions (online or in person) for ASUCI execs to answer during the event. Mental Health Commission is hosting UCI Reclaim Mental Health Conference 2018 this May 5- 6 at UC Irvine Student Center. The conference is FREE & open to public. The forms are now available to register to attend, or apply to be a student panelist, or submit a workshop proposal. So far, 7 workshops have been confirmed: Domestic Violence Changes Your DNA: Why Trauma-Informed Care is Crucial to Adolescent Health, MDMA as Treatment for PTSD, Inmate Patient Mental Health, The Variance in Health Benefits of Expressive Writing Across Cultures, Relieving Burnout in STEM Majors and Healthcare Professionals, Yoga Therapy as a Mode of Healing for Trauma Survivors, Neurobiological Basis and Social Implications. EVP: Broussard A lot is happening Went to the UCSA board meeting this weekend Happy to share information on meeting with you if you would like to know more about it. We are getting closer towards the development meeting Student government funds and think about how we can make it more accessible to students and I don't personally feel comfortable speaking on their behalf. IVP: Rusteen Athletic rally free food on the 22nd Getting all that together and have a lot we are working on. Leila has lab every tuesday Special Committee Reports NONE Old Business NONE New Business State Support For Core Needs (Cortez & Garciano) To come and talk to you all My background is UCI. A lot of focus on the financials of the University and we want to have conversations with you on the consequences and tradeoff of UCI. Funding and tuition funding that support our campus and what portrays as a good education and the quality of UCI What are consequences if no financial support? Academic advising wait times Make sure the courses are offered in timely fashion and make sure that students can get those courses. Mental health wait times Make sure services are provided to meet those needs. The UC campus saw that at as an important investment. , responsive student services, number of TA led sections, Classroom Technology Update Classroom are being to show their age and so we want to make sure that we are making the necessary investments to improve their classes Number of TA led sections, responsive students services We are showing you this so you know where the extra resources are going towards Decision not make to whether there will be a tuition increase in Fall of 2018. We would like to look for state to continue their investment in UC california schools. What about Governor proposed 3% increase from the state? Doesn’t cover mandatory costs cover: Faculty and staff salary increases, inflationary cost increases Where would the financial support come from? State Buyout and/or Tuition and Fees We don't want to diminish the staffing resources that are out there. We would like the governor to consider a increase above the 3%. Without some level of tuition funding we put ourselves in a situation in how we would help the importance of student services etc. Not just tuition increase we would like to focus on pursuing a state buyout as well. Questions/Concerns Lydia: How have most of the departments been funded? When the information gets delivered we will share that with you and maybe when we have that we can share that with the rest of ASUCI. Will work on this and get the information back to you. Going to try and make a document for it. Julie How much more funds does UCI need to support all of this? 40%-50% and we need to keep funding up just because it hasn't kept up with the growth of UCI. If we dont get more funding form the state how much tuition raise would need to compensate $340 increase per student Keep in mind it also helps fund staff and the goes back into financial aid Academic Senate updates - Phan Can be done through academic senator and also has to be written and sent to dean change a major or add a major Council on Faculty Welfare, Diversity and Academic Freedom UCIPD-UCI Community Relations Update CFW and CTLSE established an ad hoc committee to generate recommendations to help improve UCIPD UCI community relations. Report was submitted to Cabinet on june 2017. Will present updates, changes ad goals on administrative and business in 2018-19. Second Systemwide Senate Review of proposed Revisions to APM Requested a review of proposed revisions to following sections of Academic Personnel Manual: APM 285, APM 210-3, APM 133. APM 740. APM 135, APM 235 Council on Teaching, Learning and Student Experience New proposal mandated by the 10 UCs. Seeks to build on existing strengths and resources of the campus to enhance the culture of health and wellness. Committee also discussed a possible taskforce that will assess the conditions and resources for 650 undocumented students to pursue and complete their undergraduate education are UCI Nothing was really established Council on Research, Computing and Libraries They are changing the name of “School of Public Health” name is not announced yet Canvas Transition Update Some bug issues needed to fix. Faculties have a hard time uploading lecture slides on Canvas because of the lack of space available. Council of Undergraduate Admissions and Relations with Schools Met on Jan 23rd BOARS update: Removed supplemental review which allowed some students a second chance in the admissions office felt it was merited Board of undergraduate Scholarships, Honors and Financial Aid Clarification from ICS about Latin Honors: has exceeded the number of latin honors so they said that they'll look into manually cutting down the numbers. Subcommittee on Courses & Continuing Part-Time and Summer Session Education Updated upper division for BA in French Initially it was 6 mandatory upper division courses 6 elective upper div classes now its 10 elective upper division courses an 12 mandatory classes. 3 hours for 4 credit unit issue- waiting for CEP input on this Jess: Can you talk more about how many hours on classes I did work on that i believe the aif form units were given to those specific labs then it would be more work. Motion to extend time by 5 minutes Motion: Lim Second: Ton Motion to extend time by 2 minutes Motion: Lim Second: Hong Announcement; Academic senate meetings applications is online and open now. R53-69 Discussion: Lim: Why is there a legislation for this? If don't do this again then maybe they will make them pay again. Because they need their money to maybe put it somewhere else. Lim: Will we have to keep making a legislation for this every year or is there a way to make it continuous on its own We don’t know right now. Motion to call the question by roll call Motion: Lim Second: Wan PASSES R53-70 Anyone interested in joining the Basic Needs Special Committee Will be supporting the efforts like publicize them help people go out to them. About 2-3 hours a week. Its supporting their efforts Lim: I would like to join the committee Ton: Do i need to put all the members name now? Ashar Khan: I would like to join it Motion to amend R53-70 and add “Let it be resolved, that these Senators be added to the Basic Needs Security Special committee: Celine Ton, Jessica Santiago, Julie Lim, Ashar Khan” Motion: Lim Second: Ton Motion to call the question by acclamation Motion: Hong Second: Lim PASSES unanimously. R53-71 Discussion Motion to amend R53-71 to add in Motion to amend the last “Let it further be resolved that ASUCI Senate” and add “appoints Senator Ton, Senator Zainab Khan, Senator Calderon and Senator Santiago to this committee,” Motion to add a “.” at the end of the sentence Motion: Lim Second: Santiago Motion to fix Caldron name and add the e in his name. Changed to “Calderon.” Motion: Santiago Second: Lim Motion to call the question by acclamation Motion: Lim Second: Santiago PASSES unanimously 18-0-0 R53-72 Discussion Motion to change the title of the committee from “Formation Disability Committee” to “Formation of Disability Services Committee” and from “Disability Resources Center” to “Disability Services Center” and to take out “Yenny Nguyen” and add in “Homam Almahdi, Rayan Galaidos and Amrit Sidhu.” Motion: Lim Second: Ton Motion to call the question by acclamation Motion: Lim Second: Hong PASSES unanimously 18-0-0 R53-73 Discussion What is the UC workers Anyone employed by the UC system whether they are students or other workers. All UC workers payroll are all under the umbrella of UC. Tin: I wanna say from experience that just that there are a lot of committee doesn't mean there aren't a lot of work to be done. Hopefully there is a plan of action of what has to be done and deadlines. Please do your best at these committee there are people around them. Motion to amend R53-73 to add “Nasir Asad and Ayeda Noor” to this committee. And to add a colon “:” on Labor Committee. Motion: Lim Second: Ton Motion to call the question by acclamation Motion: Ton Second: Lim PASSES unanimously B53-08 Discussion Motion to commit this legislation to finance committee Motion: Wan Second: Lim Council Intern Program Report NONE Committee Breakouts Motion to end Committee Breakouts Motion: Hong Second: Ton Committees Rules We trying to see if there was any need. Need to update j-board guidelines. Finance Waiting to hear back what he will say about the account Public Information Place and time Yardhouse Feb ?? at 9pm get it by sunday night so we can calculate how much we need to withdraw. Advocacy Jessica advocating for a campus organization there is a need and support for that area and going to write a legislation for the. Immediate Business All ASUCI meeting at 8pm School Breakouts Motion to strike school breakouts Motion: Lim Second: Ton Final Business NONE Announcements NONE Next Meeting: <6/15/18> Motion Adjourn Meeting at <7:01pm> Motion: Hong Second: Lim |