[CoordBoard] Meeting with Josiah! - Wed. 1:30-2:30

[coordboard at hampshire.edu]

Hello everyone,

As discussed during our meeting last week, Josiah wants to meet up  
with us to check-in and such. This meeting will take place next  
Wednesday September 25th, from 1:30PM to 2:30PM.

Please try to make it! The more, the merrier. For those who don't know  
where Josiah is located, you can find him in the Dean of Students  
Office, upstairs the Merrill Living Room.

During this meeting, we'll also decide what the weekly meeting time  
for this semester with him will look like (that is, a permanent time  
which Josiah will have open in his schedule for us to drop  
in/check-in/hang out with him talking about governance stuff). Scroll  
down if you'd like to see the conversation we've been having with him!

Thanks,
Xavier A. Torres de Janon
At-Large Member
Coordinating Board

----- Forwarded message from "Josiah S. Litant" <jlitant at hampshire.edu> -----
    Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 11:20:04 -0400
    From: "Josiah S. Litant" <jlitant at hampshire.edu>
Subject: Re: meeting soon and town meeting stuff
      To: coordboard at hampshire.edu

Sounds great. Lets meet at my office. See you all then!
Josiah

On Sep 21, 2013, at 10:19 AM, coordboard at hampshire.edu wrote:

> Hi Josiah,
>
> Meeting this Wednesday sound great. Would 1:30 to 2:30 be okay? I  
> don't think we need a two-hour meeting.. Let me know so that I can  
> pass the message along to Coordinating Board members.
>
> We can figure out a weekly meeting time during the Wednesday  
> meeting. In general, I think the idea is to just have a time during  
> the week when we can freely drop in to talk with you about  
> governance things or just to check-in.
>
> Thanks,
> Xavier A. Torres de Janon
>
> Quoting "Josiah S. Litant" <jlitant at hampshire.edu>:
>
>> Thanks for the answers, Xavier. Items #1 and #2 were how I  
>> understood things, so I will just pass that information on to Byron  
>> and Jonathan (via Byron).
>>
>> Re: #3: Next week I'd love to meet with at least a few of you. I am  
>> free Wednesday between 1:30 and 3:30 and that's about it. However,  
>> we can come up with a regular meeting time if people are willing (a  
>> weekly hour?). Generally speaking, Wednesday afternoons or most  
>> Fridays are pretty good for me. Let me know!
>>
>> Great about the Academic scope group--perfect solution. Thanks!
>> Josiah
>> -------------------------------------------------------------
>> Josiah S. Litant
>> Senior Associate Dean of Students
>>
>> HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE
>> Amherst, MA 01002
>> phone (413) 559-6666
>> fax (413) 559-5663
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On ThursdaySep 19, 2013, at 9:00 PM, coordboard at hampshire.edu wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Josiah,
>>>
>>> So, again, sorry so much for taking so long to address these  
>>> questions and concerns. Here are our replies:
>>>
>>> 1. Last year, we decided in our SGA Implementation Task Force  
>>> discussions that Town Meeting would be solely for students. For  
>>> this reason, we can't allow staff or faculty to attend Town  
>>> Meeting without letting Coordinating Board know beforehand. Byron  
>>> can absolutely attend Town Meeting, but he would have to let us  
>>> know a long time in advance so that we can let students know that  
>>> he will be there and so that he can be a part of our agenda. In  
>>> terms of our next Town Meeting, we don't have a date yet. We  
>>> really just want things to get off the ground and actually get  
>>> issues and proposals in our e-mail. We just don't want to host  
>>> another Town Meeting without a real agenda.
>>>
>>> 2. We unfortunately can't invite Jonathan yet. We're just too  
>>> scattered and figuring Town Meeting ourselves to have him come.  
>>> That being said, there is no reason why Jonathan can't ask us to  
>>> come to Town Meeting by asking us and letting us know exactly what  
>>> he'd like to bring!
>>>
>>> 3. Could you please send us times during the week that will work  
>>> for you to meet with us? Adrianna let us know that you'd be  
>>> interested in perhaps appointing a permanent weekly meeting time  
>>> for us to get together with you to check in. So, let us know!
>>>
>>> In terms of EPC, the Scope Group on Academics will have direct  
>>> contact with them. Hooray for that!
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Xavier A. Torres de Janon
>>> At-Large Member for Coordinating Board
>>>
>>> Quoting "Josiah S. Litant" <jlitant at hampshire.edu>:
>>>
>>>> Hi CoordBoard,
>>>>
>>>> Hope things are going well. I wanted to touch base with you all  
>>>> on two things:
>>>>
>>>> 1. Byron would like to be at Town Meetings if possible--he may  
>>>> have reached out to you about this. Please let him know if it is  
>>>> ok for him to attend Town Meetings in the future. We will also  
>>>> need to make sure they are on his schedule, which can be done  
>>>> easily if you provide him or I with a list of the meeting  
>>>> date/times/locations for the semester.
>>>>
>>>> 2. Byron would like to invite Jonathan to a Town Meeting at some  
>>>> point to see what it's all about and talk with students a bit.  
>>>> Perhaps you can coordinate this with Byron directly, but wanted  
>>>> to mention it to you.
>>>>
>>>> 3. I want to meet with you ASAP just to check in, but also to  
>>>> talk with you about the Student Quasi-Endowment. This fund has  
>>>> lots of money that is at your disposal, but you need to approve  
>>>> new guidelines for using the fund as the old ones are way out of  
>>>> date. I have spent the summer drafting proposed new guidelines  
>>>> with the Business Office--I'd like to review them with you and  
>>>> discuss how students can look at the draft more broadly and  
>>>> approve it hopefully. Can someone please be in touch with me  
>>>> about meeting with some or all of you possibly next week or the  
>>>> week after during the business day?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you!
>>>> Josiah
>>>> -------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> Josiah S. Litant
>>>> Senior Associate Dean of Students
>>>>
>>>> HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE
>>>> Amherst, MA 01002
>>>> phone (413) 559-6666
>>>> fax (413) 559-5663
>
>
>

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