Thursday, December 8, 2016
Our conference call-in option is now available on an as-requested basis. If you are unable to physically attend the meeting but want to listen in or add your two cents, email us at lissgo@gmail.com and ask how you can call in!
Welcome/Introductions
Graduate Reception
- Monday, December 19, 2016 @ 6:30pm in CdC 401
- Tasha & Allison (maybe) coming to help hand out cards and gifts
- Talk about what SGO does
- Hand around cards to sign
- Anyone want to help get gifts from the bookstore? Need 7. Allison will.
Meetings Next Semester
- When do we want to have them?
- Wednesdays don’t work for Heidi
- Same time, same place
- Sam will reserve rooms
Financials
- Funding Approvals – approved 2
- Treasury update – Allison Current
- $7,355 → $6,810
Student Groups
- ALA – Tasha McLachlan
- No meeting this month
- Chayse was awarded Student-to-Staff. Congratulations, Chayse!
- SLA – Sarah Larsen & Katelyn Torell
- Holiday Party this past Monday
- Successful silent auction – raised $614 to send a student to SLA Conference
- Information Professional Panel two Mondays ago, went well.
- Last meeting of the semester is next Thursday at 5:15. There will be treats!
- SAA – Kristell Benson
- Bowling Event January 30th – St. Thomas bowling alley
- Contact Heather Carroll for details
- Movie screening on Monday night – screening Desk Set with Katherine Hepburn. There is a raffle too!
- Visual Arts Building @ 7:30pm
- Tentative job search panel March 27
- Inside the Library at Downton Abbey
- Wed, December 14 @ UMN, 4:30-6:30
- Heather Carroll is doing a poster presentation at a rare books conference on the WARM journals cataloging project
- Bowling Event January 30th – St. Thomas bowling alley
- PLG – Salie Olson
Committees
- Faculty Development – Antonio Backman
- Student Services – Wendy Dickman
- Facilities – Kristell Benson
- Curriculum – Deb Eschweiler
- Program – Samantha Stepp
- Children In Class
- Voted to remove no children in class wording from the handbook, will allow professors to decide how they want to deal with children in class on a case-by-case basis. Stress and promote Access & Success.
- Accreditation
- Waiting on a phone call from ALA to firm up various aspects of the plan and make it final.
- Draft due at the end of July, final due at the end of September.
- Marketing the Program
- Enrollment is down 30-35% over the last 4-5 years.
- Will get no help promoting the program from Admissions, Marketing, or Dean Joann Bangs
- Mystery shopper experience garnered no response
- Tony is working hard on instituting a marketing plan for the program using Google Ads and LinkedIn. Stronger presence at grad fairs. Undergraduate program.
- Need to improve our website. Administration has said we can put whatever we want up there.
- The Good News
- Program retention rate is very good – 93%
- Classes with six or more students enrolled for Spring 2017 will likely go
- Two courses will be offered during the daytime in the coming year, with one mostly online
- Children In Class
- GSAB update – Allison Current, Deb Eschweiler, Janis Shearer
- Short meeting, nobody there, nothing.
Open Forum
What do you want to talk about? Anything we want student reps to tell committees?
Mentoring Program
Older students mentor new students – Heather Carroll’s idea. Match incoming students with more advanced students on a similar track. Something to announce at orientation?
Business Cards
- Edwin wondering if printing business cards for all students was something SGO wanted to take on, is working on a template.
- Will send out a survey to assess interest.
- Students can always submit individual reimbursement requests for business card printing costs, as it can be counted as professional development.
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