Tuesday, November 23, 2010

15 November 2010 HGSA MEETING MINUTES

Meeting held at the Bonner Room, Faculty Administration Building, beginning at 3:00 p.m.

In attendance: Tim Moran, Pete McGrath, Maria Wendeln, Beth Fowler, Elizabeth Ryan, David Hopkins

Report of the President
1. Review and approve September's minutes.
2. Tim will supply minutes from October's meeting.

Report of the co-VPs, Education
1. Professional Development Workshop: Check with Brunsman/Kruman regarding dates, Gidlow for grant writing? Richard and Louis are both on board, maybe Joe Turini; ask Brunsman to help out with CV Writing. Discussion on reaching out to other disciplines? Maybe Womens' Studies, Political Science? Need to get RSVPs--possibly advertise on FB.

Report of the VP Administration
1. Old website: Website still up with outdated information. Difficulty pinning down a fix. Tim will go see Gayle to have it taken care of.

Report of the co-VPs for Social Activities
1. Any kind of holiday gathering? Decided informal gathering on Tuesday, December 7, 8:30PM at Third Street Saloon. Email, flyers, invite professors.
2. Richard III playing at Hillberry Theater, we will set date in January for HGSA outing. David will check on group sales.

Report of the Treasurer
1. Cash on hand? $286.00 with petty cash.
2. Did we break even on bag sales? Yes.
3. Bake Sale: had to reschedule bake sale for Winter Term. Pete will set up a new date and organize volunteers once everyone knows their schedule.

Old Business
1. Mentoring: Elizabeth started pairing up mentors and mentees based on email feedback from students. Needs to pair up remaining mentors and email. Will organize pizza party for mentors and mentees for January.
2. Idea for workshop: Classroom Management--maybe talk to Brunsman and look at his syllabus.

New Business
1. Cosponsor Dr. Hyde lecture on December 7 with Department Colloquium Committee: HGSA is going to reserve the Bernath and get funding from DOSO. HGSA will cosponsor event.
2. Publishing workshop? Maria will check, maybe we can add a panel on publishing to Professional Development Workshop?
3. Possible conference with Womens' Studies--Joelle and Errin have been in talks with Anne Duggan about organizing a conference for next year, will cover historical gender issues. Joelle and Errin designated the subcommittee on gender conference.
4. Rochelle Riley Book--donated by David Hopkins. Ideas for raffling away, or silent auction at Dept. Holiday Party.
5. Dr. Faue has offered to meet informally with graduate students for "morning coffees." She is free on Mondays this term.
6. Annual Report: Each officer needs to write up a short paragraph outlining the successful accomplishments HGSA has done this year, get to Tim.

Next Meeting
Thursday, December 16, 2010, 3:00 p.m. in Bernath Seminar Room, UGL