{"id":2974,"date":"2012-12-28T14:40:27","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T22:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/?p=2974"},"modified":"2012-12-28T14:59:51","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T22:59:51","slug":"sac-meeting-march-30-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/2012\/12\/sac-meeting-march-30-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"SAC Meeting March 30, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meeting called to order at 5:32pm, Friday, March 30<sup>th<\/sup>, 2012. 18 present<\/p>\n<p>Minutes taken by Gurminder Hothi<\/p>\n<p>Meeting facilitated by Marie Loeb<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Bart Klika presented from the Deanship Review Committee<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gave out handout<\/li>\n<li>Goal of reviewing Deans Progress<\/li>\n<li>Evaluate Dean\u2019s Strategic Goals,<\/li>\n<li>Highlight Dean\u2019s Accomplishments<\/li>\n<li>Overall review Dean for effectiveness \/leadership in 4 essential social work target areas<\/li>\n<li>Catalyst survey completed, in person feedback opportunity on Thursday April 5<sup>th<\/sup> will be given 5 minute slots<\/li>\n<li>Interviews with SSW Stakeholders (external partners, UW and external Deans) Other Health Sciences and Sisters Schools in May<\/li>\n<li>Report will be given to Provost and Dean<\/li>\n<li>Student response rate 31 responses on catalyst.-Marie suggested qualitative survey<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Approval of last meetings minutes:<\/p>\n<p>Michael motioned to pass, Shelby seconded-and it passed with consensus.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>PhD. report:<\/p>\n<p>Stated that Cindy will get more involved<\/p>\n<p>EDP report:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trying to increase communication<\/li>\n<li>Looking at Meetup.com for networking<\/li>\n<li>Health issue-students want more availability of sanitizer dispensers<\/li>\n<li>Several issues with registration and practicum<\/li>\n<li>Lack of consistency and expertise of classes\/instructors in EDP program<\/li>\n<li>Next EDP meeting 4.21.12<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Advanced Standing report:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tension btwn day students and advanced<\/li>\n<li>Looking for venue to resolve discrepancies<\/li>\n<li>Appreciative of more class offerings<\/li>\n<li>Look into elected Advanced Standing SAC committee member earlier (in the summer)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2<sup>nd<\/sup> Year Day report:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In graduation mode<\/li>\n<li>Working on grad. Stuff<\/li>\n<li>On-going discussion that students of color not being supported-example: faculty using inappropriate language-with no support or minimal advocacy to rectify<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1<sup>st<\/sup> Year Day report:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1<sup>st<\/sup> year SAC hadn\u2019t met<\/li>\n<li>Students pretty happy about class offerings-more options\/electives<\/li>\n<li>Request another microwave in student lounge-Emiko reports that can be accommodated<\/li>\n<li>Looking to collaborate w\/advanced standing on a couple of events<\/li>\n<li>The \u201crevolution\u201d has died down-<\/li>\n<li>Planning meeting w\/1<sup>st<\/sup> year reps to send out info to their cohorts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>BASW report:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There is a new Disability group<\/li>\n<li>Cohort has several people w\/disabilities<\/li>\n<li>Syllabus and class info not disseminated properly<\/li>\n<li>Instructors seem not to recognize specific disabilities<\/li>\n<li>Students have a feeling of not being respected-the environment is very different<\/li>\n<li>DRS not very helpful-they are on a shoestring budget<\/li>\n<li>Students have mixed complaints about programming\/instruction\n<ul>\n<li>Too much reading<\/li>\n<li>Repeat readings<\/li>\n<li>Disappointed w\/ class instruction<\/li>\n<li>A focus in needed on higher ed. and disability concerns\n<ul>\n<li>Look at what the rest of the campus is doing to support disability concerns<\/li>\n<li>Look at what Portland State University is doing<\/li>\n<li>Marie stated is seems to be a social justice issue<\/li>\n<li>DRS moving to Mary Gates\n<ul>\n<li>Current staff environment not conducive\/supportive toward disability concerns<\/li>\n<li>DRS has limited resources-more funding needed<\/li>\n<li>Solution-talk more to faculty about student needs<\/li>\n<li>Find out where funding is coming from to leverage resources and increase support<\/li>\n<li>Incorporate disability concerns into \u201c3 things you want your professors to know\u201d sessions<\/li>\n<li>SSW should be leading the way-SAC should be spearheading the cause<\/li>\n<li>Emiko suggested looking into Jerry Kissinger\u2019s class or conducting\u00a0 class that provides info on resources to aid in reading\/workload management skills; disseminate such resources to students<\/li>\n<li>Kevin offered looking into state funding connections w\/ UW student lobbyist in Olympia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Program Committee Update:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Michael reported key issues are-faculty freedom, maintain consistency, core competencies and faculty development<\/li>\n<li>Tanya reported the need for increased cohort cohesion; Tacoma MSW program-discussion about opportunities for collegial integration<\/li>\n<li>Practicum start dates misrepresented<\/li>\n<li>Discussion about students having enough credits for financial aid\n<ul>\n<li>Getting wait listed<\/li>\n<li>Mahogany reported having to take elective she didn\u2019t want.\n<ul>\n<li>If it\u2019s a day sponsored EDP students cant show up to class, they have to get on wait list and get an aid code if open<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>EDP not having access to electives<\/li>\n<li>Mahogany reported that as an EDP student only 5 credits are needed to qualify for financial aid, all others need 10 credits<\/li>\n<li>Overall issue with number of electives\/wait lists\n<ul>\n<li>Linda reported that\u00a0 the first 2-3 waitlist students should be notified, students are prioritized by the time that they request comes in, cohort, and by which cohort the class is being sponsored\/prioritized for<\/li>\n<li>Emiko reported that EDP elective Instructors retired<\/li>\n<li>Gary requested not to schedule electives on Tuesday and Wednesday nights (or on the same nights\/weekends as EDP classes)<\/li>\n<li>Kevin suggested dropping classes that are full\/waitlisted and that students are holding on to maintain financial aid levels and instead register for a class that has open slots<\/li>\n<li>Marie reports more transparency is needed for Independent studies<\/li>\n<li>Michael reported in Lieu of the new Suicide Assessment\/Training law (6-hours\/6-years), the school may want to add such a training\/course that meets the state requirements<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Practicum Advisory Council Update:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Marie and Shelby will commit to meeting<\/li>\n<li>Tanya is also interested<\/li>\n<li>Need to check with Leon to see what scope of participation will be<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Communication Subcommittee Report:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Michael reported-strategies to codify By-laws<\/li>\n<li>Emails are great, but in-person and in-class contact is also important-we need to have a presence<\/li>\n<li>Updates and progress-we all need to keep our cohorts informed<\/li>\n<li>Branding is important-who we (SAC) are and what we do<\/li>\n<li>We need to be around at orientation-recommendations are coming for more involvement<\/li>\n<li>Suggestion-convening clubs on a quarterly basis<\/li>\n<li>Utilize comment boxes\/Bulletin Boards<\/li>\n<li>Marie suggests that we need talking point<\/li>\n<li>Mahogany suggests having a Catalyst page<\/li>\n<li>Tanya suggests having a Facebook presence\/page<\/li>\n<li>Kevin suggests going to each class<\/li>\n<li>Virginia suggests having quarter sheet cards<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bylaws Subcommittee report:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Meeting Tuesday at 5pm-Mahogany, Dane, Michael<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Budget\/Funding Subcommittee report:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lin reported Jay was given $100 for registration, $250 for lodging\/travel<\/li>\n<li>Request $ from SAC for Mixers<\/li>\n<li>Marie reemphasized that funding is only for those students actually presenting at conferences.<\/li>\n<li>A suggestion for a skim reading workshop\/seminar was introduced\n<ul>\n<li>Megan mentioned that there used to be a class or materials available for students to enhance study skills<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Social Subcommittee report:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Debrief All school end of quarter party\/recognition event\n<ul>\n<li>It was small, but people stayed longer<\/li>\n<li>Discussion about improving\/increasing All School participation\n<ul>\n<li>Have functions before classes end<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>New Agenda Items:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Social Justice diversity concerns as previously discussed<\/li>\n<li>More merchandise would be nice\n<ul>\n<li>Pens and such at DAWG Days and Orientation<\/li>\n<li>Merchandise Committee formed: Tanya and Marie<\/li>\n<li>New Member Orientation -Michael\n<ul>\n<li>Looking\/asking for topics to include<\/li>\n<li>Appeal-please look at emails, i.e. org chart email was sent out<\/li>\n<li>? What would you like to see in orientation<\/li>\n<li>Lin-text for webpage needed<\/li>\n<li>Annual Calendar-Michael\n<ul>\n<li>Sending out an email with attachments, please look at it and respond<\/li>\n<li>UPASS update\n<ul>\n<li>Emailing SAC about the recommendation for the UPASS<\/li>\n<li>ASUW not supporting exemptions at this time-more to come<\/li>\n<li>Global Health\n<ul>\n<li>Students are asking about certification<\/li>\n<li>A session about certain certificates across campus will be hopefully happening this quarter-info will be sent out via email-look for it<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Action Steps:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Emiko-another microwave in student lounge<\/li>\n<li>Cohesion btwn Advanced and Day-Kevin, Shelby, Virginia<\/li>\n<li>Merchandise Committee-Marie and Tanya<\/li>\n<li>Practicum Advisory Council-SAC involvement-Shelby, Marie-will email Leon about involvement<\/li>\n<li>Social Justice Committee-Disabilities concerns-Tanya<\/li>\n<li>Address issues with wait lists\/students holding classes-Lin<\/li>\n<li>SAC participation in orientations-Michael<\/li>\n<li>Program Committee get with Practicum Advisory Council and follow-up on above issues discussed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Next Meeting:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>May 11<sup>th<\/sup> 5.30pm<\/li>\n<li>Gary will facilitate<\/li>\n<li>Shelby will write minutes\/take notes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meeting called to order at 5:32pm, Friday, March 30th, 2012. 18 present Minutes taken by Gurminder Hothi Meeting facilitated by Marie Loeb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2974"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2988,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974\/revisions\/2988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}