Minutes from 8/27/07
27 August 07 Student Council Meeting as written by Paméla Tate-Roger
In attendance were:
Michael Boyd, Law School
Sheila Norman, MA Humanitites and Leadership
Belinda Sifford (spelling?) Adjunct Faculity School of Law
Paméla Tate-Roger, MA Humanitites and Leadership
Sara Zesmer, Grad Psych (on leave)
Animal Prufrock, MFA?
-- Creative Inquiry
Facilitator: Animal Prufrock
Agenda:
1. Charter
2. Selection Committee Meeting
The group reviewed the New College of California Interim Student Council Charter draft
and after a general discussion and corrections to the draft, the motion was made to accept
the following Charter. The motion was made by S. Zemer, seconded by A. Prufrock and
unanimously accepted.
New College of California Interim Student Council Charter
(New College Of California Interim Student Council)?
Statement of Purpose?
?
The Student Council of New College of California shall serve as an organized creative body
through which the students of New College shall have a democratic voice and a vehicle for
developing school policies and their implementation. ?
?
The purpose of the New College of California Student Council is to provide a forum and a
basis for representing and organizing New College Students from all of the college's
academic and professional programs to participate in decision-making at the school in
order to insure that the college hold a dignified place in the community as a just,
sustainable, respectful, democratic and progressive institution for students, faculty, and
staff.?
?
?
Objectives and Functions:?
1. ?
The mission of the New College of California Student Council is to confer with, advise, and
communicate with the Administration, The Board of Trustees of New College of California
(Board Of Trustees), Core Faculty Council (FC) and Adjunct Faculty Government, and
Alumni/Alumnae as is appropriate, with regard to matters of interest to the Students and
other matters of school-wide importance.?
2.?
The New College Of California Interim Student Council will seek to advise the Board Of
Trustees and others on modifications of current school-wide policies and the development
of new school-wide policies of concern to the Students.?
3. ?
The New College Of California Interim Student Council will seek to represent the needs of
students by having 2 voting seats on the Board of Trustees as well as 2 representatives
sitting on all existing and newly formed committees.?
?
4. The New College of California Interim Student Council seeks to create a permanent
student lounge for the purpose of social and academic support, and to create community
at each campus.
II. ?
Organization: ?
1.?
The New College Of California Interim Student Council shall be comprised of all Students
from the Valencia Street, the East Bay, the North Bay and the Law School Facilities.
Members must be currently enrolled or students on leave from New College of California.?
?
2.?
The New College Of California Interim Student Council shall elect, by a simple majority of
members attending, a chair for the next will be chosen at the end of each meeting. The
chair will be a rotating position – although if necessary a person may chair 2 consecutive
meetings – but then must wait 2 meetings before being eligible to chair again.?
?
3.?
The New College Of California Interim Student Council may elect other representatives, as
necessary, in accordance with its bylaws.?
?
4.?
The New College Of California Interim Student Council shall record minutes of meetings
and make them publicly available to the entire New College Community, together with any
necessary exhibits or attachments on the New College Of California Interim Student
Council blogsite/website. ?
?
III. ?
Operations:?
1.?
The New College Of California Interim Student Council shall adopt its own bylaws. The
bylaws shall provide for regular stated meetings of the Council, which shall be held at
various locations to be determined until a permanent meeting space is assigned by New
College.
2.?
Decision making will be done by modified timed consensus – and then simple majority.?
?
3.?
Records of the activities of the New College Of California Interim Student Council shall be
kept and transmitted to the appropriate successor officers of the New College Of California
Interim Student Council.?
?
4.?
The New College Of California Interim Student Council shall adopt and operate in
accordance with the New College Policy on Rights, Grievances and Community Conduct.?
?
IV. ?
Ratification and Amendment of the Charter?
1.?
This Charter shall be presented by the Charter Formation Committee to attending Student
Council Members. The Charter shall become effective upon its ratification by a two-thirds
majority.
2.?
An amendment to the Charter may be introduced to the New College Of California Interim
Student Council by any member of the New College Of California Interim Student Council;
and approved by a simple majority (see III, point 3) of the attending membership of the
New College Of California Interim Student Council.?
?
3.?
The Charter shall become effective upon its ratification by a two-thirds majority.
Please see the attached minutes from the original transcription of the Search Committee
Minutes.
SEARCH COMMITTEE MINUTES OF AUGUST 27, 2007 MEETING
Present: Jane Swan (BOARD OF TRUSTEES), Sarah (Student on leave), Debbi Grenn (Faculty),
Animal Prufrock (Student), Debrina Madison (Dean), Linda James-Myers (Dean), Phillip
Knowlton (BOARD OF TRUSTEES), Milly Henry (Faculty), Pamela Tate-Roger (Student), Mitch
Hall (Dean), Jennie Lim (Faculty), Craig Rasmussen (Staff), Kathy Voutyras (Staff), Ernest
Brown (BOARD OF TRUSTEES), Dan Cassidy (Faculty)
Introductions were made to welcome and inform members who were not at the first
meeting.
Jane gave an overview of the discussion from the previous meeting (see last weeks
minutes)
New Business
Mitch Hall gave a presentation about the Registry for College and University Presidents
http://www.registry -online.org. This is a service which has a pool of potential presidents
who are available on an interim basis. The Registry defines interim as 1-12 months.
They have placed over 200 interim presidents; they have a pool of +/- 110 potential
candidates. The Registry investigates each candidate, checks references, verifies CV's, etc.
Once they receive a list of our expectations they forward us 6-8 "potential" candidates.
They look to us to narrow it down to 3 who then come for a formal interview process. All
potential candidates visit the school the same day and the Registry facilitates the interview
process. Salaries are negotiable, the school pays not benefits, but is charged a 33% "fee"
by the Registry.
Registry candidates are not allowed to apply for the permanent position. There is a 30 day
"escape" clause in the event the job is finished earlier than first determined.
The Registry wants an exclusive agreement if we use them, meaning we would not be able
to do other recruiting.
Motion: P. Knowlton moved that we evaluate the Registry, make a proposal to the Board of
Trustees, negotiate a salary range and validate the Registry's services.
Discussion
Concerns were raised about the demographics of the Registry's pool of applicants. Cost
was also a concern in light of the recent layoffs of staff and faculty. Whether the Registry
was a non-profit or for-profit entity was raised as a concern. Finding a candidate who is
able to facilitate the necessary changes, build coalitions and work within the school's
mission was identified as a priority.
Vote: Motion passed unanimously.
Action Item: Jane, Mitch & Sarah will approach the Registry for more information; a
demographics profile of potential candidates; references from other progressive schools
that have used their services; a range of salaries of Presidents placed in similar sized
schools; and any other information that we need to make an informed decision.
Motion: P. Knowlton moved that we pursue online advertising and PR opportunities.
Mitch gave an overview of his investigation into print/online advertising in traditional and
alternative academic venues.
Discussion
There was discussion about the time lag time and cost for placing advertisements if the
committee would conduct it's own search. Animal has experience in using online PR at low
cost and effort. The possibility that this effort could also be the first step in the search for
a permanent President was raised.
Concerns were raised that the response could be overwhelming and consume too much of
the committee's time. There was discussion about this also being a good way for better PR
for the school, a way to balance the discourse. The benefits and drawbacks of pursuing
Board of Trusteesh (Registry and our own) searches simultaneously were discussed. It was
pointed out that we would probably have to end our own search if we entered into an
agreement with the Registry. Sarah raised the possibility of negotiating a fee to the
Registry if we found a candidate outside their process.
Vote: Motion passed 12-2
Discussion: The committee discussed what would constitute a valid vote: consensus,
simple, or super majority. After some discussion and given the size of the committee there
was tacit agreement for a simple majority.
Action Item: Animal, Linda, Phillip & Kathy will prepare materials and investigate outlets
for our advertising/ PR campaign.
Miscellaneous:
1. Jane asked us to think about different subcommittees that may need to form and which
areas we would be interested in serving.
2. Animal to start a Yahoo group for the committee to facilitate the flow of information.
3. Proxies: The issue of sending a proxy if a member were going to miss a meeting was
raised. It was decided that those members who represent a particular group should have
that group choose the proxy. Other could arrange one on their own.
4. Meeting time: The current meeting time did not work for any Law School faculty or
Administration. We agreed to change the permanent meeting time to Monday at 1pm.
Given next Monday is Labor Day, that meeting was rescheduled to Wednesday 9/5 at
9:30am.
This discussion also explored some questions around the makeup of the committee. The
point was made that the professional schools were not represented among the Faculty
Council representatives, although the Deans from each School at New College were on the
committee. All seemed to appreciate the diversity of perspectives represented among the
group members, and were happy about student participation. It was also agreed that,
though mindful of the needs of particular constituencies, committee members should
represent the school in general. It was noted that given the size of the group, adding
members would make it more difficult to reach decisions. No actions were taken regarding
these issues.
Friday, August 31, 2007
Monday, August 27, 2007
charter ratified tonight!!!
hi everyone,
congratulations to all students -
we ratified the charted at tonight's meeting!
the finalized charter and minutes will be posted
in the next couple of days -
thank you pamela for doing the minutes and all of your work
gathering the questions, etc...
3 of us attended the presidential search commitee meeting today
and speaking for myself - i feel really positive about the progress the school is making so quickly!
please spread the word about the council - we won't be meeting labor day
but will continue the following monday at 6pm!!
thanks again to everyone,
animal
congratulations to all students -
we ratified the charted at tonight's meeting!
the finalized charter and minutes will be posted
in the next couple of days -
thank you pamela for doing the minutes and all of your work
gathering the questions, etc...
3 of us attended the presidential search commitee meeting today
and speaking for myself - i feel really positive about the progress the school is making so quickly!
please spread the word about the council - we won't be meeting labor day
but will continue the following monday at 6pm!!
thanks again to everyone,
animal
Sunday, August 26, 2007
charter draft
i put this together using the adjunct's charter
and made some changes...
what do y'all think...
New College of California Interim Student Council Charter (NCSC)
Statement of Purpose
The Student Council of New College of California shall serve as an organized creative body through which the students of New College shall have a democratic voice and a vehicle for developing school policies and their implementation.
The purpose of the Student Council is to provide a forum and a basis for representing and organizing New College Students from all of the college’s academic and professional programs to participate in decision-making at the school in order to insure that the college hold a dignified place in the community as a just, sustainable, respectful, democratic and progressive institution for students, faculty, and staff.
Objectives and Functions:
1.
The mission of the NCSC is to confer with, advise, and communicate with the Administration, The Board of Trustees of New College of California (BOT), Core Faculty Council (FC) and Adjunct Faculty Government, as is appropriate, with regard to matters of interest to the Students and other matters of school-wide importance.
2.
The NCSC will seek to advise the BOT and others on modifications of current school-wide policies and the development of new school-wide policies of concern to the Students.
3.
The NCSC will seek to represent the needs of students by having 2 voting seats on the board of trustees as well as 2 reps sitting on all previous and newly formed committees.
II.
Organization:
1.
The NCSC shall be comprised of all Students from the Valencia Street Campus, the North Bay Campus and the Law School Campus. Members must be current or previously enrolled students. of New College of California.
2.
The NCSC shall elect, by a simple majority of members attending, a chair for each meeting at the previous meeting. This chair will be a rotating position – although if necessary a person may chair 2 consecutive meetings – but then must wait 4 meetings before being eligible to chair again.
3.
The NCSC may elect other representatives, as necessary, in accordance with its bylaws.
4.
The NCSC shall record minutes of meetings and make them publicly available to the entire New College Community, together with any necessary exhibits or attachments on the NCSC website.
III.
Operations:
1.
The NCSC shall adopt its own bylaws. The bylaws shall provide for regular stated meetings of the Council, which shall be held at various locations.
2.
Decision making will be done by modified timed consensus – and then simple majority.
3.
Records of the activities of the NCSC shall be kept and transmitted to the appropriate successor officers of the NCSC.
4.
The NCSC shall adopt and operate in accordance with the New College Policy on Rights, Grievances and Community Conduct.
IV.
Ratification and Amendment of the Charter
1.
This Charter shall be presented by the Charter Formation Committee to attending Student Council Memebrs. The Charter shall become effective upon its ratification by a two-thirds majority.
2.
An amendment to the Charter may be introduced in the NCSC by any member of the NCSC; and approved by a simple majority of the membership of the NCSC.
3.
The Charter shall become effective upon its ratification by a two-thirds majority.
and made some changes...
what do y'all think...
New College of California Interim Student Council Charter (NCSC)
Statement of Purpose
The Student Council of New College of California shall serve as an organized creative body through which the students of New College shall have a democratic voice and a vehicle for developing school policies and their implementation.
The purpose of the Student Council is to provide a forum and a basis for representing and organizing New College Students from all of the college’s academic and professional programs to participate in decision-making at the school in order to insure that the college hold a dignified place in the community as a just, sustainable, respectful, democratic and progressive institution for students, faculty, and staff.
Objectives and Functions:
1.
The mission of the NCSC is to confer with, advise, and communicate with the Administration, The Board of Trustees of New College of California (BOT), Core Faculty Council (FC) and Adjunct Faculty Government, as is appropriate, with regard to matters of interest to the Students and other matters of school-wide importance.
2.
The NCSC will seek to advise the BOT and others on modifications of current school-wide policies and the development of new school-wide policies of concern to the Students.
3.
The NCSC will seek to represent the needs of students by having 2 voting seats on the board of trustees as well as 2 reps sitting on all previous and newly formed committees.
II.
Organization:
1.
The NCSC shall be comprised of all Students from the Valencia Street Campus, the North Bay Campus and the Law School Campus. Members must be current or previously enrolled students. of New College of California.
2.
The NCSC shall elect, by a simple majority of members attending, a chair for each meeting at the previous meeting. This chair will be a rotating position – although if necessary a person may chair 2 consecutive meetings – but then must wait 4 meetings before being eligible to chair again.
3.
The NCSC may elect other representatives, as necessary, in accordance with its bylaws.
4.
The NCSC shall record minutes of meetings and make them publicly available to the entire New College Community, together with any necessary exhibits or attachments on the NCSC website.
III.
Operations:
1.
The NCSC shall adopt its own bylaws. The bylaws shall provide for regular stated meetings of the Council, which shall be held at various locations.
2.
Decision making will be done by modified timed consensus – and then simple majority.
3.
Records of the activities of the NCSC shall be kept and transmitted to the appropriate successor officers of the NCSC.
4.
The NCSC shall adopt and operate in accordance with the New College Policy on Rights, Grievances and Community Conduct.
IV.
Ratification and Amendment of the Charter
1.
This Charter shall be presented by the Charter Formation Committee to attending Student Council Memebrs. The Charter shall become effective upon its ratification by a two-thirds majority.
2.
An amendment to the Charter may be introduced in the NCSC by any member of the NCSC; and approved by a simple majority of the membership of the NCSC.
3.
The Charter shall become effective upon its ratification by a two-thirds majority.
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
minutes from 8/20 meeting
Minutes from 8/20/07
20 August 07 Student Council Meeting as written by Paméla Tate-Roger
In attendance were:
Michael Boyd, Law School
Gillian Chachere, Grd Psych
Janet Ector, MFA – Writing Consciousness
James Sheldon, Grad ASC
Paméla Tate-Roger, MA Humanitites and Leadership
Sara Zesmer, ASC
Animal Prufrock, MFA -- Creative Inquiry
Facilitator: Janet Ector
Agenda:
1. Updates on Meeting with Acting President Molina
2. Charter
MOLINA MEETING 8/14/07 @11am
Janet discussed the meeting with Acting President Molina, Abigail Wick and herself. Written minutes were unavailable, but Janet gave the following highlights from memory.
1. The meeting was very positive and Molina and the students shared mutual concerns regarding Financial Aid, Student Representation of the Board of Trustees and transparency.
2. President Molina was receptive and approved the IISC requests for the following:
a. Student representation on the Board of Trustees
b. Student representation on the Hiring Committee
c. Outreach to all students and all campuses (they are currently putting together an email list of all students). Teachers will make announcements of in their classrooms.
d. A student link on the main web page for New College entitled Meet the Students (note this link is already up and operational).
HIRING COMMITTEE MEETING 8/20/07 @ 4pm
Janet informed us that she attended the Hiring Committee Meeting after receiving a call from Acting President Molina on Saturday, August 18, 2007. Janet was unable to contact IISC Members so she attended the meeting. Animal Prufrock and Paméla Tate-Roger agreed to attend the Hiring Committee Meetings and Sara Zemer will serve as back-up in case one of the two selected representatives are not available. As the discussion progressed, it was decided that Sara Zemer will attend the Hiring Committee meetings with Animal and Paméla. The next meeting is on August 27, 2007 at 4pm in Room 7. We also discussed getting student input on questions.
Our next meeting will be August 27, 2007 at 6pm at 741 Valencia Street in the Art Studio.
********
Please see the minutes below from the original transcription from Kendall Donovan:
Presidential Search Committee Notes
Monday, August 20, 2007
Next meeting: Monday, August 27 at 4 pm (distance folks will use the same conference call in code.)
Participants:
Jane S- BOT (chair)
Phillip- BOT
Janet- student council- MFA WC
Millie Henry- Faculty BA Hum
Linda James Meyers- Dean of Grad Psych
Mitch – Dean of the School of Humanities
Kathy V- Director of Alumni and assistant to the President
Craig Rasmussen- Enrollment services
Kendall- NB BA director and faculty (notes)
Today’s Agenda:
Role of the Interim president
Timeline/process for hiring
Potential candidates
Process to finding additional candidates
Future agenda items:
Specific process for selecting the interim pres
Job description and purpose of interim president
How long is interim term?
Agenda Items
Role of the president:
General brainstorm ¬ A person who can bring sound organizational systems to
New College within the mission of New College; a person who can take action
to address the issues identified by WASC; coalition builder, able to deal
with the dire financial issues and PR issues; healer; confidence to
lead us into the full compliance with all of the WASC standards for accreditation.
Proposed Timeline:
Week 1 (8/20) – Research places to find interim presidents; cost and time of listings
(Mitch) for cost analysis; creating job announcement
Week 2 (8/28) – Post job announcement to listing sites; create detailed job
description and set interviewing and hiring process
Week 4-5 (9/3) – Receive applications and pursue contacts
Week 5-6 (9/10) – Interviews and send recommendations to the BOT
Week 7 (9/24) – BOT hires Interim President
Potential Candidates:
Luis will ask Ralph Wolfe for recommendations. He has already recommended two people that Luis will pass on to us. Luis will give us the information about the Registry for College and University Presidents (http://www.registry-online.org/default.asp)
FC may have a list of 2 or 3 people. We may ask for ideas from faculty, staff, and students.
Places to post the job listings:
• The Chronicle of Higher Education
• New York Times
• Inside Higher Ed
• Idealist.org
• Registry for College and University Presidents
Mitch will contact each to find out the cost and timing of announcements.
Discussion on Process for hiring:
• Screening process to select interviewees and vote on the interviewee group
• Hiring criteria
• Interview questions
• Identify an interview team
• The interview process –
- set maximum number of interviews (5-8)
- round 1 (committee members) and round 2 (BOT executive group)
- hiring team and interview dates
- hiring criteria/rubric chart for scoring interviewees
- interview questions
- individual vs panel interviews?
- interview process observer
- ranking process for selecting the 2-4 people we will recommend to the BOT.
Action Items:
• Mitch will research the places we can do listings for costs and time considerations.
• Linda, Kathy, and Phillip will work on the process for communicating to NC community and posting on web via Edwardo. This communication will include the names of the committee participants and an email contact for the committee (Craig will monitor). .
• Jane will send notes on to the committee and work on a job announcement that she will email out for our feedback over the next week.
• All- give feedback to Jane about job announcement over the next week.
20 August 07 Student Council Meeting as written by Paméla Tate-Roger
In attendance were:
Michael Boyd, Law School
Gillian Chachere, Grd Psych
Janet Ector, MFA – Writing Consciousness
James Sheldon, Grad ASC
Paméla Tate-Roger, MA Humanitites and Leadership
Sara Zesmer, ASC
Animal Prufrock, MFA -- Creative Inquiry
Facilitator: Janet Ector
Agenda:
1. Updates on Meeting with Acting President Molina
2. Charter
MOLINA MEETING 8/14/07 @11am
Janet discussed the meeting with Acting President Molina, Abigail Wick and herself. Written minutes were unavailable, but Janet gave the following highlights from memory.
1. The meeting was very positive and Molina and the students shared mutual concerns regarding Financial Aid, Student Representation of the Board of Trustees and transparency.
2. President Molina was receptive and approved the IISC requests for the following:
a. Student representation on the Board of Trustees
b. Student representation on the Hiring Committee
c. Outreach to all students and all campuses (they are currently putting together an email list of all students). Teachers will make announcements of in their classrooms.
d. A student link on the main web page for New College entitled Meet the Students (note this link is already up and operational).
HIRING COMMITTEE MEETING 8/20/07 @ 4pm
Janet informed us that she attended the Hiring Committee Meeting after receiving a call from Acting President Molina on Saturday, August 18, 2007. Janet was unable to contact IISC Members so she attended the meeting. Animal Prufrock and Paméla Tate-Roger agreed to attend the Hiring Committee Meetings and Sara Zemer will serve as back-up in case one of the two selected representatives are not available. As the discussion progressed, it was decided that Sara Zemer will attend the Hiring Committee meetings with Animal and Paméla. The next meeting is on August 27, 2007 at 4pm in Room 7. We also discussed getting student input on questions.
Our next meeting will be August 27, 2007 at 6pm at 741 Valencia Street in the Art Studio.
********
Please see the minutes below from the original transcription from Kendall Donovan:
Presidential Search Committee Notes
Monday, August 20, 2007
Next meeting: Monday, August 27 at 4 pm (distance folks will use the same conference call in code.)
Participants:
Jane S- BOT (chair)
Phillip- BOT
Janet- student council- MFA WC
Millie Henry- Faculty BA Hum
Linda James Meyers- Dean of Grad Psych
Mitch – Dean of the School of Humanities
Kathy V- Director of Alumni and assistant to the President
Craig Rasmussen- Enrollment services
Kendall- NB BA director and faculty (notes)
Today’s Agenda:
Role of the Interim president
Timeline/process for hiring
Potential candidates
Process to finding additional candidates
Future agenda items:
Specific process for selecting the interim pres
Job description and purpose of interim president
How long is interim term?
Agenda Items
Role of the president:
General brainstorm ¬ A person who can bring sound organizational systems to
New College within the mission of New College; a person who can take action
to address the issues identified by WASC; coalition builder, able to deal
with the dire financial issues and PR issues; healer; confidence to
lead us into the full compliance with all of the WASC standards for accreditation.
Proposed Timeline:
Week 1 (8/20) – Research places to find interim presidents; cost and time of listings
(Mitch) for cost analysis; creating job announcement
Week 2 (8/28) – Post job announcement to listing sites; create detailed job
description and set interviewing and hiring process
Week 4-5 (9/3) – Receive applications and pursue contacts
Week 5-6 (9/10) – Interviews and send recommendations to the BOT
Week 7 (9/24) – BOT hires Interim President
Potential Candidates:
Luis will ask Ralph Wolfe for recommendations. He has already recommended two people that Luis will pass on to us. Luis will give us the information about the Registry for College and University Presidents (http://www.registry-online.org/default.asp)
FC may have a list of 2 or 3 people. We may ask for ideas from faculty, staff, and students.
Places to post the job listings:
• The Chronicle of Higher Education
• New York Times
• Inside Higher Ed
• Idealist.org
• Registry for College and University Presidents
Mitch will contact each to find out the cost and timing of announcements.
Discussion on Process for hiring:
• Screening process to select interviewees and vote on the interviewee group
• Hiring criteria
• Interview questions
• Identify an interview team
• The interview process –
- set maximum number of interviews (5-8)
- round 1 (committee members) and round 2 (BOT executive group)
- hiring team and interview dates
- hiring criteria/rubric chart for scoring interviewees
- interview questions
- individual vs panel interviews?
- interview process observer
- ranking process for selecting the 2-4 people we will recommend to the BOT.
Action Items:
• Mitch will research the places we can do listings for costs and time considerations.
• Linda, Kathy, and Phillip will work on the process for communicating to NC community and posting on web via Edwardo. This communication will include the names of the committee participants and an email contact for the committee (Craig will monitor). .
• Jane will send notes on to the committee and work on a job announcement that she will email out for our feedback over the next week.
• All- give feedback to Jane about job announcement over the next week.
Monday, August 20, 2007
Monday, August 13, 2007
Friday, August 10, 2007
draft of mission statement for comments
sent in by: sarah zezmer
The Student Council of New College of California shall serve as an organized creative body through which the students of New College shall have a democratic voice and a vehicle for developing school policies and their implementation
The purpose of the Student Council is to provide a forum and a basis for representing and organizing New College Students from all of the college’s academic and professional programs to participate in decision-making at the school in order to insure that the college hold a dignified place in the community as a just, sustainable, respectful, democratic institution for students, faculty, and staff.
The Student Council of New College of California shall serve as an organized creative body through which the students of New College shall have a democratic voice and a vehicle for developing school policies and their implementation
The purpose of the Student Council is to provide a forum and a basis for representing and organizing New College Students from all of the college’s academic and professional programs to participate in decision-making at the school in order to insure that the college hold a dignified place in the community as a just, sustainable, respectful, democratic institution for students, faculty, and staff.
minutes from 8/6/07
06 August 07 Student Council Meeting
Pamela Tate Roger: Reported on formation of the Interim Independent Student Council. Fielded suggestions for revision from those present.
James Sheldon: Presented models for decision-making processes:
1. Parliamentary Procedure/Majority Voting
2. Consensus Decision-Making
3. Modified Consensus Models
Council: Unanimously approves adoption of the modified timed consensus model, with a simple majority vote (if necessary) at the meeting’s end. This decision making model applies only so long as the council remains ad hoc, without a ratified charter and without elected representatives from each department.
Katie Paul: Student Council structural models:
1. Spokesperson Model
2. Parliamentary Model
3. New School Senate Model
4. Anarcho-Syndicalist Model
Council: Unanimously approves adoption of the anarcho-syndicalist model. This student council structure applies only so long as the council remains ad hoc, with a ratified charter and without elected representatives from each department.
Anarcho-Syndicalist Model:
1. Any one who wants to speak, speaks.
2. Any one who wants to vote, votes (given that they are currently or previously enrolled students).
3. One person, one vote (whether or not you are an elected representative from your department).
4. Static facilitator positions will be on a rotating basis.
5. Static treasurer and secretary positions can, if people want, be set.
Sarah Zesmer: Discusses original student council mission statement.
Next Meeting: 13 August 2007, 6:00 p.m.
Next Week’s Facilitator: James Sheldon
Next Week’s Agenda:
1. Draft charter based on anarcho-syndicalist model with modified, timed consensus-based decision making, with a simple majority vote at the meeting’s end, if necessary.
2. Discuss publicizing meetings—posting the meeting on the New College of California home page, flyering the 777 Valencia campus, promoting meetings when we meet with our departments.
3. Funding: New College should give us an office and offer financial support for the council
4. Facilitator training: New College should pay for all interested council members to attend facilitator training, so that we can better conduct meetings.
5. Mission statement.
Pamela Tate Roger: Reported on formation of the Interim Independent Student Council. Fielded suggestions for revision from those present.
James Sheldon: Presented models for decision-making processes:
1. Parliamentary Procedure/Majority Voting
2. Consensus Decision-Making
3. Modified Consensus Models
Council: Unanimously approves adoption of the modified timed consensus model, with a simple majority vote (if necessary) at the meeting’s end. This decision making model applies only so long as the council remains ad hoc, without a ratified charter and without elected representatives from each department.
Katie Paul: Student Council structural models:
1. Spokesperson Model
2. Parliamentary Model
3. New School Senate Model
4. Anarcho-Syndicalist Model
Council: Unanimously approves adoption of the anarcho-syndicalist model. This student council structure applies only so long as the council remains ad hoc, with a ratified charter and without elected representatives from each department.
Anarcho-Syndicalist Model:
1. Any one who wants to speak, speaks.
2. Any one who wants to vote, votes (given that they are currently or previously enrolled students).
3. One person, one vote (whether or not you are an elected representative from your department).
4. Static facilitator positions will be on a rotating basis.
5. Static treasurer and secretary positions can, if people want, be set.
Sarah Zesmer: Discusses original student council mission statement.
Next Meeting: 13 August 2007, 6:00 p.m.
Next Week’s Facilitator: James Sheldon
Next Week’s Agenda:
1. Draft charter based on anarcho-syndicalist model with modified, timed consensus-based decision making, with a simple majority vote at the meeting’s end, if necessary.
2. Discuss publicizing meetings—posting the meeting on the New College of California home page, flyering the 777 Valencia campus, promoting meetings when we meet with our departments.
3. Funding: New College should give us an office and offer financial support for the council
4. Facilitator training: New College should pay for all interested council members to attend facilitator training, so that we can better conduct meetings.
5. Mission statement.
Monday, August 6, 2007
MEETING REMINDER AND
MONDAY AUGUST 6th - at 6pm
due to the closure of room six as a room...
we will meet at the cafe at 6pm -
if we decide on a different room we will post it clearly
in the cafe.
tonights focus: THE CHARTER
also - i would just like to say in reference to the comment that i am going to delete, which i will print and bring to the meeting so that there is transparancy in what i chose to delete - i do not think it is appropriate to accuse someone of
sexual mis-conduct on the blog in general and especially to then sign off anonymously - and say it is based on a rumor...thats really irreponsible and dangerous and not what we are here for.
more on this later...
due to the closure of room six as a room...
we will meet at the cafe at 6pm -
if we decide on a different room we will post it clearly
in the cafe.
tonights focus: THE CHARTER
also - i would just like to say in reference to the comment that i am going to delete, which i will print and bring to the meeting so that there is transparancy in what i chose to delete - i do not think it is appropriate to accuse someone of
sexual mis-conduct on the blog in general and especially to then sign off anonymously - and say it is based on a rumor...thats really irreponsible and dangerous and not what we are here for.
more on this later...
Thursday, August 2, 2007
minutes from 8/1 meeting
In attendence were:
Susie Sherman, Grad Psych,
Katie Paul, Grad Psych,
Karen C, 2005 Alum,
Lynn Burnett, 2005 Alum,
Sheila Norman, Humanitites and Leadership MA,
Pamela Tate-Roger,
Kirsten Brydum,
Alexander Friend,
Nicole Henares,
Sara Zesmer,
Roshni Chabra,
Animal Prufrock
Abigail Wick
01 August 2007, NCoC Interim Independent Student Council Minutes
Formation of Council:
We must follow proper steps for its formation in order to be recognized by other councils as legitimate. The first step will be the creation of a charter (we’re looking at charter models from UC Santa Cruz and New School in New York, which we will then revise to reflect the spirit of NCoC).
Proposal for skeletal organizational model for NCoCSC:
Two elected representatives from the school’s thirteen programs = 26 elcted representatives (with one mandatory presence per council meeting). Each program will exercise jurisdiction over the appointment of representatives. Additional slots open for one elected representative from the following: adjunct faculty council, core faculty council, alumni, staff. This would total 30 council members.
**The interim council supports cross-representation—students representatives present at other council meetings, other council representatives present at student council meetings.
What must be decided:
1) How many seats on council—should this be proportionately representational? One mandatory rep from each council! These should be voted on by each department.
2) How decisions are made—modified consensus
3) Leadership roles
4) Mission statement
5) Governmental structure
6) Funding—part of being an official body of the school is receiving funding from the school
7) Will all our meetings be open?
8) Grievance procedure
9) Position descriptions
We need from the 30 council members the following static positions:
1) Board of Trustees representative from the student council
2) Representative to the adjunct council
3) Representative to faculty council
4) Secretary (minutes)
5) Communication person (post blog, send out notices for meetings)
6) Treasurer
Charter articles proposed for discussion at next meeting:
1) Mission
2) Membership
3) Static Positions
4) Meetings
5) Elections
6) Decisions Process
7) Amendments
Next meeting will be:
06 August, 6:00pm
Agenda for next week, chaired by Katie Paul:
1) Pamela Tate Roger will synopsize how the NCoC Interim Independent Student Council was created
2) Susie Sherman (or her representative) will educate the council about different decision-making processes.
3) Katie Paul will look at three radically different charters for student councils (UC Santa Cruz, New School of New York, + one other, to be determined)
4) General Discussion of: What we want to accomplish, mission statement discussion: Board representation, that the administration acknowledge the WASC report as an impetus for the creation of a student council, what sort of binding right to power will we have after our official formation, how can we receive acknowledgement as a council, write a letter to the students letting them know what we’re all about
5) After this meeting we can present to WASC a draft of our charter for NCoCSC!
Method of communication for NCoC Interim Independent Student Council:
New College Students Yahoo group, which Jeremy moderates
Susie Sherman, Grad Psych,
Katie Paul, Grad Psych,
Karen C, 2005 Alum,
Lynn Burnett, 2005 Alum,
Sheila Norman, Humanitites and Leadership MA,
Pamela Tate-Roger,
Kirsten Brydum,
Alexander Friend,
Nicole Henares,
Sara Zesmer,
Roshni Chabra,
Animal Prufrock
Abigail Wick
01 August 2007, NCoC Interim Independent Student Council Minutes
Formation of Council:
We must follow proper steps for its formation in order to be recognized by other councils as legitimate. The first step will be the creation of a charter (we’re looking at charter models from UC Santa Cruz and New School in New York, which we will then revise to reflect the spirit of NCoC).
Proposal for skeletal organizational model for NCoCSC:
Two elected representatives from the school’s thirteen programs = 26 elcted representatives (with one mandatory presence per council meeting). Each program will exercise jurisdiction over the appointment of representatives. Additional slots open for one elected representative from the following: adjunct faculty council, core faculty council, alumni, staff. This would total 30 council members.
**The interim council supports cross-representation—students representatives present at other council meetings, other council representatives present at student council meetings.
What must be decided:
1) How many seats on council—should this be proportionately representational? One mandatory rep from each council! These should be voted on by each department.
2) How decisions are made—modified consensus
3) Leadership roles
4) Mission statement
5) Governmental structure
6) Funding—part of being an official body of the school is receiving funding from the school
7) Will all our meetings be open?
8) Grievance procedure
9) Position descriptions
We need from the 30 council members the following static positions:
1) Board of Trustees representative from the student council
2) Representative to the adjunct council
3) Representative to faculty council
4) Secretary (minutes)
5) Communication person (post blog, send out notices for meetings)
6) Treasurer
Charter articles proposed for discussion at next meeting:
1) Mission
2) Membership
3) Static Positions
4) Meetings
5) Elections
6) Decisions Process
7) Amendments
Next meeting will be:
06 August, 6:00pm
Agenda for next week, chaired by Katie Paul:
1) Pamela Tate Roger will synopsize how the NCoC Interim Independent Student Council was created
2) Susie Sherman (or her representative) will educate the council about different decision-making processes.
3) Katie Paul will look at three radically different charters for student councils (UC Santa Cruz, New School of New York, + one other, to be determined)
4) General Discussion of: What we want to accomplish, mission statement discussion: Board representation, that the administration acknowledge the WASC report as an impetus for the creation of a student council, what sort of binding right to power will we have after our official formation, how can we receive acknowledgement as a council, write a letter to the students letting them know what we’re all about
5) After this meeting we can present to WASC a draft of our charter for NCoCSC!
Method of communication for NCoC Interim Independent Student Council:
New College Students Yahoo group, which Jeremy moderates
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