ASC Meeting Notes

Present Members: DeVonn Francis, Asher Mones, Rachel Appel, Won O. Cha, Shira Service, Kimberly Yunker, Andy Overton, Sebastian Quijada Link, Jenny Eagleton, Casey Gollan, Kristi Cavataro, Charis Jackson-Barrios

Other notes from this meeting: Andy Overton

Agenda

• Won — RGG meeting
• SQ(sebastian)/RA(Rachel Appel) — Ad-Chair meetings
• Kristi — electives & printing cost

Website

• importance of ASC site to be up in running in terms of communication/ addressing our identity as student council in relation to…
• Site does not replace conversations it supplements them
• important to add info to sites immediately after meeting and edit periodically thru week -does not have to be descriptive
• What does our site look like? (come back to in this session if time allows)

Won: Revenue Gen Group. (RGG)

• split into small groups for presentation
• Saskia, Steven Lam
• Saskia gave copy of agenda to student council but asked not to share it (transparency issue)
• Competition between deans an issue? (Unity Issue)
• JE: concern of art school at large; person presenting programs is Saskia
• Shira: Can more students sit in on these meetings? (need to ask if this is possible) (Won types up notes about the doc./ Saskia: Cannot get into the specifics of the doc./ publishing)
• CG: protocol of transparency during meetings/ disclosure of info during meetings. How do you address these situations.
• CG: talked to Doug A., dif between professors who do and do not want to be involved in the prog that they are creating.

MA MS curriculum: New Art Economies/ Reflections/ Shadows… etc.

• Dennis Adams, Nikki Logis, Walid
• Cost of prog. 40,000 for to yrs. 10000 dollars/ credit (What is the market $ for Masters Prog.?) 8 students first year + increase each yr.

ASSP (Adv. Student Certificate Prog.)

• 1 / 2 yr prog.
• 800-900 dollars per credit
• What are the terms of our certificate program?
• Thinking about implementing this very soon

Pre-College

• Essl, Osinski, Morgan
• Programs may disappear
• $ is undetermined
• no mention of faculty
• MA/MS faculty would be teaching at the precollege program

MDP (Masters of Design Prog.)/ MA social design

• 3 yr prog. ( occurs during the summer)
• Studio and Theory Prog.
• Ashford, Bordo, Miller, Lins
• Name: Alternative Institute

Ad-Chair Meeting

• Humanities- Making eng. Students more well rounded
• Rep. for RGG programs-→ Jamshed

JSC Meeting

• Hurricane Sandy Benefit Event
• JSC sponsored event
• Facilitate info from school better/ bring school together/w specific events
• Subcomittee made up from 3 schools to compile info for lectures from 3 schools (Andy is on this committee)
• Hurricane emergency fund
• Building will be open over Thanksgiving break
• How Are we making up days lost? (up to individual schools on how days are made up)
• Next meeting on the 20th (Chaired by Arch.)

Electives in the SofA (School of Art)

• Shira: Our power to choose the classes that are being cut?
• Adv Painting class cut
• Almost all electives cut
• (Who makes the decision of cutting these classes)
• (is the schedule finalizedshould be finalized by the 15th? Who was in attendance?)
• (is this something that should be finalized by the curriculum committee?)
• student rep. issue dealing/w contract claiming
• Erin Sparling’s Adv. Tech (studio elective) classes were canceled indefinitely
• (What are the criteria of classes being cut?)
• Our curriculum is at risk of being shitty b/c faculty is dividing time between reg. tasks and RGG

Leanne Miller Case

• ASC initiates review of Leanne Miller
• Leanne Miller fulltime faculty with tenure (highest paid faculty member in the school of art)
• Proposal of writing an open letter to the school of art directed towards Leanne Miller spearheaded by students (perhaps boycotting the class)
• Every fulltime faculty members have to teach 3 courses
• Finding people who can give Testimonials
• CUFCT
• Students can do a survey/ have a review of their professors
• Meeting on Sunday to outline/ plan
• Getting records of students that have been in her classes
• (What are the criteria by which we address Leanne Millers class?)
• Complaints about the class(es)/professor(s) that come through student council
• By pushing this through we create a standard of criteria by which we address other faculty/ classes
• Strength of argument is within complaints and not in the professors salary

Paying for Printing

• Paying for plotter prints by the foot (needs clarification)
• $ to prints covers the cost/ does not generate revenues (unofficial)

CDG Associates

• CDG assoc. — given final report/ only pres + other admin have seen it — not funneled down yet
• RA - “is there final report→ CDG?” → Lawrence + TC say “No” (CDG needs to be looked at further)
• Needs further clarification

Events

• AM: do we want to cancel scheduled events RA has postponed them
• Should we add/delete
• Donation based party for Hurricane Relief
• Alumni Sock-hop Party
• Student Faculty Summit
• Why is it that the president of our school says that he does not have the capability to raise 400 million dollars, and offloads the responsibilities on to other people.

Talking meeting with faculty and students

• Student frustration/w faculty → we should call meeting/w faculty; Walid would be interested
• ask for a more concrete way that faculty and students and more effectively come together (is this an issue of student council?)
• students need to be running the meeting so that the faculty does not take it over
• needs to be a clear purpose of calling the meeting in order
• creating a situation where all of the faculty and the students come together to discuss what is going on
• What is the best day that we can meet?
• What portion of the faculty/staff should be there?
• Rachel Appel writing email to faculty
• Friday @ 6pm + Sunday @ 4pm