SGA This Week...
Appropriations Committee
The committee approved a total revision to the SGA fiscal policies and will be presenting a motion at the next meeting to insert the revisions into the SGA By-Laws. If approved, they will take affect following fall break. All student organizations will be informed as to the new policies. Also, if the policies are approved, budgeting for the next fiscal year will begin the first week of B-term, with budgets due before winter break. Again, all student organizations will be notified by mail immediately following the fall break.
Committee on Academic Initiatives
This week, the Senate passed the committee's proposal for changes to be made in the policy for awarding transfer students credit for the Sufficiency requirement. The next step will be to submit the proposal to the Humanities Department and ask that it be put on the agenda for their next meeting. The committee may also submit the proposal to the Committee on Academic Policy, CAP.
After a vote, CAI decided to address the issue of TA's and their command of the English language. Since this is a difficult topic to address, the committee is requesting input from members of the WPI community. A problem definitely exists, and the committee would like to know how YOU feel it should be dealt with. Mail suggestions to sga@wpi.edu
CAI also intends to send representatives to all department heads in B-term to see if there are any concerns from the faculty that they can help with. In addition, the committee will be requisition and encouraging professors to submit more reserve materials to the SGA course reserve files.
Committee on Student Life Issues
The committee agreed to send the proposed revision to the Consortium shuttle bus schedule to the Consortium as soon as they can gather more signatures. Hopes are that the petition will be done and ready to mail by the second week of B-term so that the Consortium has time to review and prepare to implement the new schedule for the spring semester.
The committee also drafted a letter to Steve Hebert, Vice-President for Administration and the WPI Police regarding the lack of information released to the student body following the recent assault on Schussler Road. The committee was concerned that the only method of information release was an events posting on the WPI computer system and that a majority of the WPI community was unaware of the assault until Newspeak reported it one week later. The committee suggested flyers and mailbox stuffing to better inform the community in the future.
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