9/8/10 ASM Strategic Plan

6:24 The room seems a bit empty.

6:29 Chair Williams is calling us to order. On time, auspicious start!

6:31 Powerpoints and Cameos oh my.

6:32 Chancellor Martin is presenting and chatting with us.

6:33 Secretary Madsen's phone rings during the speech.

6:36 Chancellor Martin is going over the benefits of the Madison Initiative for Undergrads. More faculty, more financial aid, more courses. Wish this would have come out say, 6-7 years ago. It would have been nice to take advantage of the program.

6:40 Chancellor Martin is pushing for more UW Autonomy. Sounds like a good idea to me. The State Assembly has been doing little more than tie the UW's hands and cut its funding.

Ex. UW wants to have the authority to pay faculty/staff independently, set tuition for UW Madison specifically (uh oh...), give the UW funding control

Well even if this will raise tuition a little bit (which is really bad, higher education is way too expensive) it will help make the UW one of the most competitive research universities in the world. Considering the importance of the patent bar to employment coming out of UW Law I can't help but think that this is a good thing.

6:55 Chair Fergus just pointed out that the state could cut the UW's funding in retaliation for asking for more autonomy.

7:00 Dean Berquam (sp?) is up. She considers the ASM staff part of her staff. Hmmm. Speaking of autonomy.

7:03 Apparently we have a responsibility to respectfully engage each other in the marketplace of ideas as well as bringing in diverse groups of people and make them feel welcomed and like they have a voice.

This responsibility must be pretty recent because I don't seem to remember all that much of this welcoming spirit last spring.

7:07 Strategic Plan time.
-Academic Affairs
--Rebrand this as University Affairs (includes Campus Safety)

-Leg Affairs
--Housing Fair (this is a good idea, a bunch of property owners meet up with students)
--A lot more tenant stuff (good)
--Alcohol lobbying
---Medical Amnesty - Don't arrest underage people with alcohol poisoning
--State Lobbying for Money/Gubernatorial Debate

-Diversity
--Getting new members
--Figure out what programs to run
--How do we measure success

Shared Gov
-Creating Ambassadors not Appointees
--Accountability
--Lobby for students in the various Shared Gov committees

Finance
-Concrete Funding Criteria (good)
-Review internal budge process
-Creative Works Fund (this would give money for artistic students create works around campus)

Nominations
-Develop new interview questions and style
-help new appointees acclimate to their committee
-guide for the next nominations board

Student Activity Center Governing Board
-Finalize office space criteria
-$$$ for SAC Maintenance

Student Services Finance Committee
-Follow the law. 42 USC 1983 here we come.
-Better relationships with non allocables
-new funding streams other than GSSF status

SJ
-Rule of law (this is good. there were HUGE problems with this)
-Outreach Consultant to help people figure out what the heck is going on

7:20 and the talking to hear yourself talk begins...

7:50 Textbook swap is looking good according to Chair Fergus (academic affairs). This is of more concern to undergrads but he's done a really good job with all of this.

Chair Uraga (Diversity) - He wants us all to help him out on Diversity. Ok. Great. What are you doing? I've seen a lot of nothing coming out of this committee so far.

Chair Beemsterboer (Finance)- 13 grants last night, 3 of them will be coming in next week. Oh joy. Other than that we should be looking to his strategic plan (which seemed fairly good).

Chair Polstein(Legislative affairs) - general stuff

Chair Nichols (Nom Boards)- working on associate justice, outreach consultant, asm front desk staff.

Chair VandenLandenberg (Shared Gov) - reworked a lot of shared gov. trying to use directors to make things more accountable. Trying to get shared gov more transparent (sounds good). No updates on ASM Express.

8:02: Chief Justice Fifield has been working on outreach and getting an associate justice. Wants focus on rule of law.

8:13 Apparently I'm a chair of some subcommittee or something