Attendees
Brandon, Beth, Emily, Alex
Meeting times
Tentative Monday/Thursday 12-1
Developing Intent
Goals
Social Infrastructure
Assembly checklist written by Alex
Agenda planning + coordinating for Joint Leadership Meeting by Brandon, Beth, staff
Faculty governance enhancements by Brandon, Beth, staff
Communications
Developing and distributing materials
Developing talking points or a "pitch" for the organizational changes
Managing cultivation tools (social media, messaging apps)
Policies
Governance 101
GSU Assembly Agenda Planning Guidelines
Position descriptions, policy
Vision and Mission
GSU strives to make civic engagement approachable, educational, and rewarding for students expected to learn across significant differences. We wish to empower students to create positive change at Evergreen through the solidification of governance policies, strengthening of internal and external communications, and improving social infrastructure.
Project Brainstorming
Social Media Solutions (Sam)
Give people an interactive way of what's going on at school
What do people want to see?
Easy to manage, easy to understand
Reposting events on a GSU page
Why? Some information relates to student activities or content
Reactive or proactive?
Brandon has some concerns about how personal an article may feel if we're focusing on reposting what we see on the college's website
Emily mentions the school has infrastructure for personal
Sam mentions oversaturation in talking about the variety of content we post
Charles mentions data that supports an abundance of posting so long as the content is meaningful. Twice a day is the peak number for good content.
Data comes from campaigns and nonprofits. Charles is looking to Social media guide to campaigns (
Emily says Instagram, Snapchat, can have more frequent posts, while Facebook should have less content.
Sam- "Humans of New York"
Beth and Emily mention sustainability in design
Solidifying existing structures (Brandon)
Talking to faculty, talking to staff, administration about reciprocal meetings
Assembly (Alex)
Recruiting (program coordinator), tracking it via spreadsheet, estimating who will come from where, and when
Governance 101
Committees that exist, what their purpose is, and what their history is
Internal Policy (Tech, Positions) (Beth) (Agile)
Orientation (Emily) (Agile)
Orientation has dependencies (assembly)
Orientation for everyone (new students and GSU representatives)
Beauracracy, what are ILCs, navigation for new students, then student union, assembly, sales pitch later on
(Coordination with Jadon?) Some info varies based on the assembly, wants to put that in disorientation
Might do metaevents
Success = greater than admin, calendar event, disorientation, interpersonal development,food, competence building, signing up for a meal plan, {see beauracracy point}, meaningful (Emily)
Success = legislators
Week 5 to 8 will be dedicated to other projects (policies, structural improvements)
Legislative Priorities (Charles)
APA updates, police oversight
Experimental Housing
Homeless
Vets Waivers
Ferries
Starting coalition building to get bills passed. Can meet with legislators to get bills passed.
Concrete bylaws revision + policy documents for other roles. Might subtract local and legislative liaison