[In these minutes: Campus updates, housing issues, strategic planning and student involvement, coordinate campus issues]

STUDENT SENATE CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE (SSCC) MINUTES

OCTOBER 20, 2005

[These minutes reflect discussion and debate at a committee of the University of Minnesota Senate; none of the comments, conclusions, or actions reported in these minutes represent the views of, nor are they binding on, the Senate the Administration, or the Board of Regents.]

PRESENT: Josh Breyfogle (chair), Rick Orr, Jared Warren.

ABSENT: Nicolas Allyn, Brian Edstrom, Blake Hogan, Anthony Kouba, William Kusch, Timothy Tangen, Dion Turgeon.

1. CHAIR’S REPORT

Josh Breyfogle said that the three members present would talk through each item on the agenda, and then action would be held until more members could be present.

He has been focusing on the student housing issue. He was contacted by a Minnesota housing cooperative after this topic was mentioned in the Minnesota Daily article. It is possible that the two groups might be able to work cooperatively since more housing for graduate student and young families is their goal as well.

2. CAMPUS UPDATES

Josh Breyfogle said that UMDSA has been working on the taxi program and a better neighbors program.

Rick Orr mentioned the following issues that MSA has been working on:

Jared Warren said that MCSA is working on:

The members then discussed the distribution of Student Senate seats between undergraduates and graduate/professional students. It was asked that this distribution be included in the minutes:

FINAL SEAT ALLOCATION

COLLEGE

STUDENTS ELIGIBLE 2005-06

1

COAFES

1052

1

CALA

267

1

CBS

1480

1

CCE

1642

1

DENTISTRY

478

1

CEHD^

1346

1

GC

1748

7

GRAD SCHL

7482

1

HUM EC

997

1

LAW

817

12

CLA

12627

1

CSOM^

1836

1

MED SCHL

1669

1

NAT RES

407

1

NURSING

335

1

PHARMACY

420

1

PUB HLTH

373

3

IT

3975

1

VET MED

342

2

UMC^

927

2

UMM^

1620

1

UMD-BE

1694

1

UMD-EHSP

2016

1

UMD-FA

616

1

UMD-LA

1943

1

UMD-MED

109

1

UMD-PHARM

102

2

UMD-SE

2156

50

 

50476

 

 

 

^ NOTES:

one seat per college, 2 seats guaranteed for Crookston and Morris

 

CSOM total = 1836 (1620 undergrads + 216 MBA)

 

CEHD total = 1346 (698 undergrads + 648 M Ed)

 

 

 

 

Undergrad seats are in BOLD

 

Grad/Prof seats are in Italics

 

Either undergrad or grad/prof are in Bold Italics



3. HOUSING ISSUES

Josh Breyfogle said that he and his senators are working on a document, which will then be distributed to SSCC for comment before being presented to the Student Senate in December. The document will apply to all campuses and all forms of non-traditional students.

4. STRATEGIC PLANNING AND STUDENT INVOLVEMENT

Rick Orr said that he, the MSA president, and the GAPSA president recently met with a representative from the President’s Office regarding student involvement in the process. They asked that more students be appointed, but it appears that all the task forces are full. However, it does appear that a student will be appointed to the steering committee headed by Senior Vice Presidents Jones and Sullivan.

When he talked with MSA about this position, they agreed that it should be someone from SSCC to present a system-wide viewpoint. From an email, Nic Allyn and Jared Warren expressed interest. He will forwarding their information to Lyn Holleran tomorrow for a final decision

Jared Warren said that the strategic planning process at Morris has been going well with four students serving on the task force. There was a campus kick-off event at which time faculty, staff, students, and community members were asked about their vision for Morris and the University in the future.

Josh Breyfogle said that Timothy Tangen is looking into the situation at Duluth and there is no news from Crookston as to whether a student was appointed.

5. COORDINATE CAMPUS ISSUES

Members made the following comments:

6. COORDINATE CAMPUS VISITS

It was noted that there was a poor response rate to the coordinate campus travel email, and no agreement on dates from those who did respond. The members then discussed the apathy among SSCC members and the lack of members at today’s meeting. It was decided that Josh Breyfogle would send an email to members to encourage better attendance.

7. OTHER BUSINESS

With no further business, Josh Breyfogle adjourned the meeting.

Becky Hippert
University Senate