Board Notes 5/1/18

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Board Notes 5/1

*Welcome Clifton Watson!*

 

Beth

  • Letters of intent should all be in by this weekend at the latest
    • Last call email going out this week
  • Staff Meeting this Sunday!
    • Will only be an hour, organization necessary
  • Senior week — who will be here/has other housing
    • What will other (non-WESU) work hours be like?
  • Legacy Documents!
  • Ava designed a great poster for the senior week event

 

Ruth/Helly

  • Purchase list from Amazon sent to Ben
  • List of bandcamp/physical purchases being made
    • Lots of alum bands

 

Dillon

  • Legacy document

 

Jake

  • Pledge Drive

 

Luke

  • Video is done!

Will

  • Written tests administered — 4 retakes necessary

 

Xandra

  • More permanent home for the public affairs standards?
  • MYRP replacement needed! There will be a pitch during the staff meeting

 

Babe

  • Resources for board members administering practical exams?
  • Cleaning up the written exam — input on any other missing/incorrect spots welcome/encouraged

 

Cormac

  • Website almost complete
    • Set up a time for visually concerned people to meet and talk about the website? Thursday?

 

Meg

  • Refining program guidelines
    • Unspoken rules have essentially been codified in text
  • Summer program in progress

 

Ben

  • Meeting with Prof. Feller
    • Course on refugee resettlement — service learning collaborations/opportunities?
      • Students interested in community engagement working on podcasts?
    • Next spring
  • Less than 19K to go for the pledge drive!
    • Majority of packets went out Saturday
  • Ice cream for Sunday?
  • Summer Music Director? RUTH!?!?!?!?
  • Board T Shirts!
    • Different color for black and white graphic?
  • New board members at next meeting

 

Clifton

  • Director of the Jewett Center for Community Partnerships
    • Jewett Center: encouraging civic engagement and community/student relationship development
    • Leadership development of young people, particularly marginalized young people
    • Civic Action Plan
      • Provides direction around increasing Wesleyan’s visibility as an engaged community
        • Taking inventory of civic engagement activity
        • Coordinating efforts across campus
    • WESU one of 3 flagship programs for the JCCP
      • OCS, CPE as well
      • Ensuring a legacy for organizations past the tenure of students in charge
      • Directing students to community members interested in those areas/who might employ them in a work-study capacity (OCS)
      • How to loop us into what’s happening at the JCCP? Access their offered resources?

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