MAY 20, 1999
The fifth meeting of the Student Senate for 1998-99 was convened in 25 Law Building, Minneapolis campus, on Thursday, May 20, 1999, at 1:35 p.m. Coordinate campuses were linked by telephone. Checking or signing the roll as present were 18 voting student members, 1 ex officio member, and 2 non-members. Mr. Jesse Berglund, Student Senate Chair, presided.
A. Resolution Regarding Tuition
(http://www1.umn.edu/usenate/resolutions/stu-tuit-res.html)
| Approved by the: | Student Senate December 3, 1998 Administration March 12, 1999 Board of Regents - no action required
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APPROVED
Reid LeBeau, a student senator from Morris, was elected Student Senate Chair.
Aaron Street, a student senator from the Twin Cities, was elected vice chair of the Student Senate and the Student Senate Consultative Committee.
Deanne Nordberg, Student Senate Vice Chair from Morris, reported that elections have been completed and Gary Hedin will continue as the Student Body President.
Kelli Rusch, SSCC member from UMC, stated that their elections have also been completed. Shon Naslund was elected president and she was elected vice president. Kerstin Trimble will serve as the SSCC representative.
Tina Wille, a Duluth senator, said that this was finals week.
Cheryl Jorgensen, GAPSA President, introduced Ben Solomon as the newly-elected GAPSA president. Ben then reported that the results of the recent collective bargaining election were not in favor of a graduate student union. 75% of graduate students did vote in this election.
Jesse Berglund reported that Ben Bowman was elected as the new MSA President.
Cheryl Jorgensen reported that the capital has finished its business. The University did not receive all that it requested and no reason was given for this. $198.8 was requested and $103.9 was received. The item to be hit the hardest was the undergraduate initiative, which included freshmen seminars.
The AHC did receive an endowment for medical education which would provide $8 million per year in recurring funds. It is not all that the AHC needs, but it is a start.
The Senate and House decided to support lowering the student share of financial aid to 46%. This helps many students, but it helps private college students more proportionally than public college students. $3 million was also added for work study.
She then said that she has graduated, so she is no longer the SLC president. She introduced Suzanne Drennon as the newly-elected president.
A Morris senator asked that Darwin Hendel be asked about the progress of student evaluations of teaching at Morris.
Jesse Berglund asked new senators to provide Becky Hippert with their address and phone number. He then thanked outgoing members for their service this past year and wished newly-elected members luck for the upcoming year.
The meeting was adjourned at 1:50 p.m.
Rebecca Hippert
Abstractor