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Senate Meeting #25

Minutes / Senate · 111th session · dated April 9, 2024 · updated April 9, 2024

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111th JHU Student Government

Senate Meeting #25

April 9, 2024 / 07:00 PM / Hackerman B17

AGENDA

  1. Call to Order and Attendance (1 min)

    1. Absentees:
      1. Excused:
      2. Unexcused:
    2. Present

  2. Convening Business (3 min)

  3. Amendment and Approval of the Agenda (1 min)
  4. IDEO Presentation/Workshop - Denis Cengiz
    1. JHU Co-Creation Sessions Loop 2 - SGA

  5. Public Input (3 min)

  6. Reports (17 min)

    1. Cabinet Reports (4 min)

      1. Student Body President - President Ryan Chou
      2. Student Body Vice President - Vice President Jackson Morris
      3. Student Body Secretary - Secretary Amy Li
      4. Student Body Treasurer - Treasurer Jenny Chen
      5. Chair of Programming - Chair Shalala Leny
      6. Director of Communications - Director Connie Weng
      7. Director of Research - Director Jason Shumsky
      8. President of the Senate - President Nasreen Naqvi
      9. Advisor Report (2 min) - Dr. Charles Norman

  7. Non-Legislative Business (15 min)

  8. Transition Documents - President Nasreen Naqvi
  9. Inauguration Announcement - Chair Shalala Leny
  10. SGA Feedback Summary - Google Slides - Chair Shalala Leny

  11. First Reading

  12. Second Reading

  13. Programming Council Updates - Senator Tim Huang
    1. Announcements (5 min)

  14. Adjournment (Estimated 9:00 PM)

    1. Senior Send-off resolution

Time-length and adjournment estimates are provided for the benefit of guests at Senate meetings. However, SGA meetings are always slated to extend until 10:00 PM and SGA members are expected to remain in the Senate chamber until official adjournment by motion, whether before or after the adjournment estimate

AGENDA

1.Call to Order and Attendance (1 min)

  1. Absentees:
    1. Excused:
      1. Unexcused:
    2. Present

2. Convening Business (3 min)

  1. Amendment and Approval of the Agenda (1 min)
    1. Amendment to the Agenda: adding the event feedback summary presentation. PASSED
    2. Motion to approve the agenda. PASSED
  2. IDEO Presentation/Workshop - Denis Cengiz
    1. JHU Co-Creation Sessions Loop 2 - SGA
    2. Met with 200 students
    3. Want to hear what students want
    4. Five key components of student satisfaction
      1. Confidence - succeeding academically
      2. Connection - making lifelong friendships
      3. Security - getting and navigating support
      4. Purpose - exploring and finding passions
      5. Joy - having fun
    5. Activity:
      1. Green dot on an experience that had a positive impact on you
      2. Orange dot on an experience that had a negative impact on you
      3. Pink dot: upvote
    6. 4 stations: confidence, connection & joy, security, purpose
    7. President Stone: What is the end goal that we are trying to achieve?
      1. End goal: relay idea to staff and faculty that students want to see. Also want to see what areas are of high impact.
    8. Vice President Jackson: Who will the info be relayed to? Office of Student Affairs (who might in turn further relay)
    9. Activity took appx 40 minutes
    10. Will incorporate this feedback with their current research
    11. President Stone: It was really fun, what are successful stories from other universities and what impact have you made?
      1. NYU, first year experience, in mapping out critical milestones, such as centralizing communication, advising inconsistencies [forming 1:1 relationships]. Also hired 10 students in helping making these solutions possible to these problems
    12. Hope that this will bring more clarity and dialogue.
    13. Chair Shalala: how many more sessions are you planning and to whom are they targeted?
      1. Week 7 out of 10 week project.
      2. Student affairs is energized and want feedback

3. Public Input (3 min)

No input

4. Reports (17 min)

  1. Cabinet Reports (4 min)

    1. Student Body President - President Ryan Chou
      1. Last GBM :(
        1. No sig updates
      2. Student Body Vice President - Vice President Jackson Morris
        1. Plan to meet with state and local officials to engage with MD officials
        2. Reached out to board of trustees: prayer room, inclusive dietary plans, SNF Agora (more communications to follow soon)
      3. Student Body Secretary - Secretary Amy Li
        1. Archiving meeting on April 18 with the Dean of Libraries. If there’s anything specific to send into the Archive, let us know.
      4. Student Body Treasurer - Treasurer Jenny Chen
        1. If your group wants to submit an events grant, today’s the last day since tomorrow’s the last day for the committee meeting
      5. Chair of Programming - Chair Shalala Leny
        1. Working on transition document
      6. Director of Communications - Director Connie Weng
        1. No updates
      7. Director of Research - Director Jason Shumsky
        1. Not here
      8. President of the Senate - President Nasreen Naqvi
        1. Today’s last day of the 111th SGA Senate
        2. Thanked everyone
        3. Inauguration is next Tuesday
        4. Involved in a couple of the transition meetings with some ppl from the senate
        5. Talked about a meeting with campus admins regarding Mitt Romney’s honorary degree
        6. Met on Monday with president Daniels with incoming execs.
      9. Advisor Report (2 min) - Dr. Charles Norman
        1. Reminded us the inauguration is next Tuesday in commons

5. Non-Legislative Business (15 min)

  1. Transition Documents - President Nasreen Naqvi
    1. Requirements for transition docs are on Teams and have been sent via email
    2. Question: if someone is retaining their position, do they create a transition doc? Nasreen: no, just create a set of bullet points regarding goals for upcoming senate
    3. Due date: April 13
    4. POI: Jackson: Can you instead meet with your successor? Nasreen: not advised for the sake of documentation
  2. Inauguration Announcement - Chair Shalala Leny
    1. Next Tuesday 5:30-7pm in Commons Salon B
    2. POI: Is food provided? Yes
  3. SGA Feedback Summary - Google Slides - Chair Shalala Leny
    1. Not really a presentation but just feedback from people on SGA
    2. Look at the doc and find things you might want to work on

6. First Reading

7. Second Reading

  1. Programming Council Updates - Senator Tim Huang
    1. POI Tyler: 8 students will be there at each table? Tim: yes
    2. More POIs [couldn’t follow up on content]
    3. POI Jaden: There's going to be a chair which will be run by the chair of programming with the assistance of vice chair, have you thought of changing vice to co chair? Tim: sure, it’s just a wording distinction
    4. More POIs [couldn’t follow up on content]
    5. Stone motioned to vote: PASSED
    6. Announcements (5 min)

8. Adjournment (Estimated 9:00 PM)

Senior Send-off resolution I. Motion for 5 minute recess: PASSED II. Moved to thank you’s

Motion to end meeting. PASSED