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Showing posts with label Joe Paolicelli. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joe Paolicelli. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
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Tuesday, November 19, 2013
SA Senate Addresses Undergraduate Admissions Policy, Student Organization Allocations at Latest Meeting
By McKinley Kant and Joe F. Paolicelli
The GW Student Association Senate met for the third straight week in November in the School of Media and Public Affairs building to hear from Senior Associate Provost for Enrollment Management Laurie Koehler about the university’s “need-aware” admissions practice.
Provost Koehler, who admitted last month that the university had been falsely advertising its undergraduate admissions process as “need-blind” for years even though some applicants’ financial information was taken into account when making a final admission decision, told the Senate that the Office of Admissions has taken steps to accurately communicate its practices.
Koehler said the Office of Admissions has taken steps to include more information on the undergraduate admissions website and hold additional staff training.
“At the request of President Steven Knapp, I’ve spent a great deal of time trying to engage in conversations with our current admissions staff, current administrators, reviewing our admissions print and online materials, to try to gauge what happened,” Koehler said.
“I did, regrettably, identify occasions where we were not as accurate as we should have been.”
In response to a question by Sen. Ryan Counihan (SoB-U) Koehler said the Office of Admissions has not changed the way it admits and denies students and continues to emphasize a holistic approach.
After the conclusion of Koehler’s statement and questions from the senators, the Senate unanimously passed a bill approving fall allocations for approximately 40 new student organizations. Senator Counihan, chair of the finance committee, reported the committee had just under $200,000 remaining in their co-sponsorship fund after approving funding for the Parliamentary Debate Society to host a tournament and the Engineer’s Council to host an app development workshop.
Senator Counihan also reported that funding reviews had determined that catering by Sodexo for student organizations had almost doubled in cost over the course of a year. He gave an example of an event hosted by the College Democrats where, for the same event and food, the cost went from $392 last year to $754 this year, and increase of over 90%.
“It’s something we’re looking into,” Senator Counihan promised the other senators.
The Senate welcomed a new member during the session, electing Vinu Varghese as the graduate senator from the School of Business. In his appeal for support, Varghese said he was interested in increasing networking between student organizations, as well as between undergraduate and graduate students.
The Senate will have its final meeting before the new calendar year on December 2, the Monday immediately following Thanksgiving break.
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
SA Senate Addresses Student Safety, Board of Trustees Representation
By Joe F.
Paolicelli
Blue light phones, student representation on the University
Board of Trustees, and confirmations for numerous Student Association positions
were some of the many issues the Student Association Senate addressed on Monday
evening.
The Senate unanimously passed a resolution, sponsored by
Senator Marshall Cohen, calling on the University Police Department to improve
the blue light emergency phone beacons located around the Foggy Bottom and
Mount Vernon campuses.
The resolution asks GWPD, which operates the phones, to
reactivate a currently disabled phone by the Law School, and to standardize the
phones to ensure a consistent blue light is visible.
The Senate also unanimously passed a bill, co-sponsored by
Sens. Ryan Counihan and Chris Stillwell, to create an internal research
committee to examine the possibility of placing a student representative on the
University Board of Trustees.
The committee, composed of five senators, will present a
public, researched report to the Senate by February 1. The report will include
a recommendation on whether such a position should be created.
Senator Stillwell was elected as the chair of the new committee
with 19 votes, defeating Senator Paul Asercion, who garnered four votes.
Senator Asercion was approved with unanimous consent as one of the four other
members of the committee, along with Sens. Counihan, Shreya Chaturvedi, and
Nora Albert.
While the Senate unanimously confirmed multiple research aides
and a legislative director, consideration of the confirmation of multiple
senator designates was postponed.
Although Senator Daniel Egel-Weiss proposed an amendment to the
Senate bylaws that would have allowed the confirmations to take place, the
amendment was tabled after questions came up about why the change to the bylaws
was necessary and multiple senators expressed doubt that the amendment was the
proper way to proceed.
Monday’s meeting was the first of three Senate sessions that
will take place in consecutive weeks due to the timing of Thanksgiving break.
Executive Vice President Kostas Skordalos asked the senators to be prepared for
the November 18 meeting, when Senior Associate Provost for Enrollment
Management Laurie Koehler will be answering questions about the recent
revelations concerning the admissions department.
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
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