112th Senate Committee on Civic Engagement
Date: 28 February 2024 Time: 6:00pm-7:00pm Location: CSC, Meeting Room
ATTENDANCE: Present: Chair Angela Xiong, Lucy Landry, Priya Agrawal, Sumire Sumi, Willow Goode (CSC Civic Life Specialist) Excused absences: Yonatanne Desta Unexcused absences:
AGENDA:
- Priya: last week updates
- SNF Angora Debate happening today between College Republicans and Democrats 7:30pm in Gilman
- Asking us what we can do to improve these events
- SNF Angora Debate happening today between College Republicans and Democrats 7:30pm in Gilman
- Chair Xiong: SNF Angora member wants to come to our meeting next week
- There is a list of events she’d like us to help with, having to do mainly with the executive branch of government
- Willow Goode: is SGA or the CE Committee sponsoring today’s SNF Angora event?
- Chair Xiong: No, they asked too late
- Willow Goode: CSC updates
- There have been changes to how we communicate
- Planning phone banking sessions
- Practicing calling representatives
- learning how to tally who calls
- How to find representatives
- how to get in contact with them
- How to write a script to talk to them
- Practicing calling representatives
- Will keep the CE committee updated as things come up
- Chair Xiong: do you have the volunteers you need?
- Willow Goode: No, we need Hopkins volunteers and the CE committee.
- Everyone will have their own personal script they want to discuss, volunteers will act as guides
- Chair Xiong: try with some trial volunteers to know what you want
- Willow Goode: the goal is to teach volunteers so they can have their own events and help others on their own
- Willow Goode: No, we need Hopkins volunteers and the CE committee.
- Chair Xiong; Do you have a set date?
- Willow Goode: End of March, April
- But with everything currently happening in government, we are not sure yet
- Willow Goode: End of March, April
- Chair Xiong: SNF Democracy fest moved to next fall
- Chair Xiong: Will reach out to girl who wants to do Civic Engagement fair
- Willow Goode: have you started running for your positions yet? What are the election timelines?
- Sumi: kind of
- Chair Xiong: when do the elections start for the executive board?
- Sumi: early April
- Willow Goode: will reach out to the Committee on Student Elections for information
- Chair Xiong: What does CSC do for student elections?
- Willow Goode: mainly a campus interest. Looking for make students more interested
- Chair Xiong: using “I VOTED” stickers could help, as well as tabling on the breezeway
- Willow Goode: do you run campaigns?
- Sumi: you advertise on social media, flyers
- Willow Goode: not many people vote
- Chair Xiong: voter turn-out is not great on campus, especially when it comes to sophomore, junior, senior years
- Priya: election timeline; campaigning starts April 4th-7th, April 8th-9th is voting
- Priya: shared link to upcoming SNF Angora events that the CE committee may wish to participate in
- Chair Xiong: may want to sponsor “Executive Branch in Our Backyard: Presidential Impact in Hopkins’ Home” and “Beyond the First 100 Days: How Civic Engagement Can Build a More Resilient Democracy” events on April 29/30 and May 1, respectively
- We would be the primary hosts
- Chair Xiong: may want to sponsor “Executive Branch in Our Backyard: Presidential Impact in Hopkins’ Home” and “Beyond the First 100 Days: How Civic Engagement Can Build a More Resilient Democracy” events on April 29/30 and May 1, respectively
- Willow Goode: This is tricky because you don’t want to choose a side as SGA, and also with new rules about advocacy work happening. SGA/CE committee could do an event on…
- Chair Xiong: research and federal funding and cuts; this is affecting the university as a whole
- Willow Goode: Would students want to have a discussion about this, or just hear more about it?
- Chair Xiong: both, because its affecting the opportunities people have in the future; canceled funding for programs people are applying to
- Also affects not just scientific communities, but also economic sectors because research impacts so many other areas; it’s important to take a look at how this affects the broader scheme of things; misinformation is playing a part
- Chair Xiong: there are efforts to dismantle the entire department of education
- Also affects not just scientific communities, but also economic sectors because research impacts so many other areas; it’s important to take a look at how this affects the broader scheme of things; misinformation is playing a part
- Willow Goode: something specific
- Chair Xiong: what a lot of people are worried about is the uncertainty; we should focus on what will happen what we can predict
- Willow Goode: Federal funding cuts - next steps ??
- Important to find people that it has impacted to speak during the event
- Priya: it has impacted internship opportunities and international students; found an article on how NIH funding freeze is harming human life
- Next steps: date and time
- Chair Xiong: Monday April 14, 2025, 5pm-7pm
- Willow Goode: space? Gilman 50
- Important to find people that it has impacted to speak during the event
- Willow Goode: CSC would be here to support you, CE Committee would have to take the lead on planning this
- Willow Goode: extended an invitation to the CE Committee for the “taste of the Student Center”
- Chair Xiong: both, because its affecting the opportunities people have in the future; canceled funding for programs people are applying to
- Finalized plan for CE Committee’s event on federal funding and research cuts for Monday April 14th, 2025, 5pm-7pm in Gilman 50
- Audio-visual should be set up at 4:30pm
- Willow Goode: next major steps are contacting who you want to speak
- Some expect payment, which we would need to compensate
- Chair Xiong: Next week we can have focused concentrated topics and a list of people who we’d like to contact about speaking
- Will do a presentation this week or after break to SGA about sponsoring it
Meeting ended @7pm