SAC Meeting Minutes – May 11, 2012
SAC meeting May 11, 2012
Facilitator: Gary
Minutes: Shelby
PhD Report: no Representative
EDP Updates: Dane-
– practicum positions for people out of the area; issues with finding practicum near home, but not allowed (too much work to find positions)
– STAR sights having practicum sights out of the area selection
– Midquarter evaluations: not a regular occurrence, but great option- wants more
– Cornell West to be commencement speaker next year?!
- Lin suggests for Marie to start early to nominate him
– Electives: what specific electives for EDP? Summer electives- more options for EDP sponsored electives
- Emiko: 593 Adults with Chemical dependency, Life Limiting Illness
– EDP representation for practicum meetings
- First Wednesday of the month at 4:30- Marie can go- wants Day students to attend as well
- Still waiting on Ali’s feedback- supposed to talk to James, but not too sure (Ali not present to divulge details) Emiko- still needs to have an info session, only met with faculty so far (James)
Advanced Standing: Kevin
– Cohort cohesion social May 10- around 20 people including faculty showed up: info session of advanced standing students, issues of AS students, ideas/ solutions :
- AS meet with program committee before next summer session
- More IGD and social justice included in the summer seminar; although AS students may know about social justice, but does not know the same language- good opportunity to get AS students on the same page
- Orientation for advanced students as a whole- break up into concentrations for an hour or so
- During class introductions- eradicating “what year are you?”
- “Otherization” also happens when EDP students join the mix
- More information in registration packet ON BOTH SIDES; providing up front information for both cohorts
- Panel or group of 2nd year students (more informal) to talk about first year experience
- Educating about structures and sources about local community organizations/ agencies
- Including documentation about what specific social workers do (ie- hospital social worker)
- Emiko: ratio will be different next year between AS and Day students (117:44)
- Rachel: Understanding what AS even means- it’s not a “higher” level/ better skills than Day students
2nd Year Day: Rachel
- Ready to graduate!
- Conversations about “career support” not being present- READ EMAILS!
- What is another way to make career support visible?
- Committee for graduation
- Is there an end of year celebration? Funds?
- Making a film (Rachel and Kevin) and a lot of students want to be a part of-
- want to honor faculty members that have been inspirational for cohort
1st Year Day: Laura
- New student groups: create continuity for next year
- Global Alliance- Int’l connection for int’l students as well as a forum for students interested in abroad group perhaps international students feel disconnected, lack of support from faculty and cohort
- Women’s Group
- Jewish SW Student group
- Using orientation as a better forum to get information out there for first year’s
- 30 min/ 1 hr sessions to break up and discuss student groups
- Rachel brought up that people were not willing to participate/ show up to set up a “fair” (perhaps Fall quarter?)
- Lin: wants a paragraph and description of student groups to put on the website
- Not always updated; education about groups could be useful
BASW Update: Tanya
- Ice cream went well
- Disability committee success! (GREAT JOB!)
- Going to the farm (Lettuce link)
- Active in senior sendoff right now (junior’s do something good for seniors- replete with crepe paper and cake
- Acceptance to Columbia!
Program Committee Updates: Shelby
- Electives getting finalized for next year
- Brought up AS/ Day student social, but Kevin and Shelby were in process of planning mixer
- Marie: question- elective for School Social Work class (EDP students want it and are now excited to get a certification)
- Lin points out: but practicum must be at school to get certified
- Practicum Advisory Update: Marie- EDP going to start going to meetings
- Outstanding PI celebration- May 16th, 3-5pm
Communications Subcommittee: Laura
– Talked about ways to get SAC more visible next year; make students understand WHY SAC exists:
- Bulletin boards:
- Student Group Board: portion of a bulletin board specific to student groups!
- adding to website and blog
- catalyst (discussion boards and surveys)
- not many people really look at emails, so not so many “sswall” emails
- Communicate with larger UW campus
- Being more clear for new SAC members for next year:
- Solicit direct feedback, twice quarterly to stay consistent, using all cohort groups to make sure all classrooms are visited (because a lot of SAC members are in the same classes)
- Setting expectations for SAC to elicit responses to ssw
- Welcome packet/ info sheet for new SAC members
- Include list of accomplishments/ what to expect
- Quarterly updates for every meeting times in SAC member emails
- Establishing and managing student groups for SSW- “Council of Student Organizations” to establish what is or is not still active (SAC responsibility)
- Quarterly/ twice a year networking event for all student organizations to learn what everyone else is doing; space to network between groups
Bylaws Subcommittee Report: Mahogany
– Discussed specifically laying out when people come to SAC and expectations
- How many meetings you are allowed to miss
- Restricting people joining committees
- Evening it out- requiring SAC to be part of committees
- Writing out all committees with brief description of each committee
- Have committees write up 2-3 sentences of each committee (perhaps part of welcome packet)
- Have constant/ Standard committees part of bylaws
- Making facilitating/ Minutes mandatory for SAC members
- Set meeting dates to set expectations
- GPSS representation
- We can influence/ learn about funding if we are on it
- We also have no idea HOW it can affect us because we have never had representation
- Anyone in the program- doesn’t have to be a SAC member
- Can have proxy, but (we think) it has to be the same named person
- Meetings: 1st Wednesdays at 5:30 (every 4 weeks)
- Lin: Put it as a student group? Then we can self-nominate SSW students
- May 30th: RACHEL IS OUR REP! Bagley Hall, Room 134 (near fountain)
Social Subcommittee:
– June 1st– perhaps at Shultzy’s: must call before hand
- Laura and Derrick are planning the social! (Shelby will be delegated to, not planningJ
Marie
– Furniture on roof?
- Wrought iron/ locking up furniture to roof
Budget Subcommittee: Lin
- Only small requests, however, VERY short timelines!
- SWIYA making tamales for fundraiser
- Global Alliance, AS/ Day student
- Lin: funding for “special occasions”; don’t want students to plan events around meal times- should benefit SSW as a whole
- Should we have specifics/ timelines for funding?
Lin Updates:
– Orientation! (Laura and Shelby VERY eager- Rachel will be our mentor)
- AS- July 18th
- Continuing students Sept 20, 21st
- What content over 2 days;
– Mentor program mentoring program?
- Matches have been a challenge
- Some work, not enough 2nd years interested
- Intentional events between Advanced and 1st year students
- Perhaps buddy system between first year/ advanced students over rather than 1st/ 2nd year
- More organic matches are better or perhaps 1 2nd year has 3-4 students
- Specificity of personal information (#of children, etc.) uncomfortable and specificity of requests
- Marie: suggests people’s information on website with blurb (ie. Students with children, etc.)
- Gary: would affect overall school cohesion with mentors
- Laura: branching international students in the mix of all students (rather than insular international student groups)
- Group mentorship better than individual mentorship
- Especially with int’l students: Marie- is this systemic or one on one change we as SAC can do
– SAC office?
Can we use it for more confidential work or for the writing tutor?- all SAC says no problem!
- Sign for office hours?
- Comment/ feedback box for students
New Agenda Items: Emiko
– Budget input from faculty council; comparable structure for student council and staff council (favor from everyone)
- SAC going to larger cohort to talk to students
- Can also go talk about SAC input on budget
– GPSS- Students must give more input on budgeting
Action Steps:
– Rachel- attending GPSS meeting
– Rachel- mentor for orientation
– Laura and Derrick- restaurants for end of year party
– Lin- gathering info for orientation, website testing, MSW connects
– Laura, Glenn, Sylas, Shelby- MSW connects and orientation
First SAC meeting: Mahogany facilitator, Shelby minutes
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