Updates
– Town hall update from Dana. Issues:
- Want faster output next time. Delay dilutes effect of town hall.
- For next TH, want stricter moderation
- Debate whether to split EE/CS or split into issue-specific focus groups
– EE301 supplement educational visit.
- Executed. Everyone already knew. Most were non EE this semester. Went well.
– Lounge relocation update: Move to take place 2/15. Already built.
– Dual Advising: Presidents to draft a proposal, present to faculty/staff.
– Discount paintball: Winner.
– Sandisk sponsorship: Winner.
Current Projects
– Consider your replacement!
– E-week: How to encourage participation? (Mostly crickets here)
– Student Review Form Rewrite
- Nathan Cheung supports a rewrite that encourages two-way review like CS
- Effort to begin in spring, target implementation for Spring 2012 review
- Interested volunteers: Zach, Kelvin, Neel, Matt, Gireeja
- Neel to lead
– Sandisk named sponsorship. How to deliver value?
- Raffle with prizes at an event (social hour)
- Super social hour
- Lounge opening party
- Logo on website, recruitment on website
- Need a photographer to verify attendance and “fun times”
- Thank you note, poster
- Interviews?
– Visit Day
- Important that EEGSA continue not to pay for Visit Day
- Hoodies: vote on what you will not receive
- Peer Adviser survey
– Revised Mission Statement:
- The Electrical Engineering Graduate Student Association (EEGSA) strives to improve the experience of Berkeley’s electrical engineering graduate students. It does this by advocating for graduate students in shaping departmental policy, by helping the department to run events which benefit from student input, and by fostering graduate student community through social events.
- I don’t have the edits…
Officer Reports
– Treasurer (Matt as stand-in):
- $2500 for social hours, $500 for bar night, $100 paintball, ~$400 overflow
– GA Liaison (Jeannette, Jansen):
- Received $380 in funding for the semester.
- One-time GA link post in email.
– Industrial Liaison:
- Sandisk coup (see above)
– Social Chair:
– Prelim Ombuds: Sounded like it went without issue.