Board meeting minutes 01/30/2006

1. Successfully completed Snow Day -- Kudos to Nandita and Josa for all their efforts.
2. Alternate board room meeting time: Wed 7:45 8:45 am in AOB IV 174
3. International Potluck - tentative date Feb 12th 11:00 - 12:30
4. Super bowl party expected 25, logistics still being worked out
5. Coffee talks - the GSM and ASM have plans to introduce a new toaster, water cooler, coffee/tea service and a portable projector. The projector will be under the control of the ASM for student use the others will be installed in the student lounge and logistics are still being worked out.
6. The computer lab chairs will be cleaned and new office supplies are in the pipeline
7. There was general concern about the cleanliness of the student lounge and an idea of rotating the 'cleaning procedures' between the student clubs on a weekly basis. The matter needs to be discussed with the individual club presidents before going ahead with the implementation. A check list of various TO DOs for keeping the lounge clean is being worked out. A full implementation of the idea will need an addition to the ASM by-laws.
   
8. The board discussed on opening the club office for personal use and could not reach a consensus on regulating the club office. In general it was indicated that all club presidents should be notified of its availability and email to this regard to be sent out. In addition, no specific guidelines are enforced for the office space except that the room be used for club activities only. Sign up sheets will be provided for clubs to sign up club usage.
9. ASM goals for 2007 BRAINSTORMING round II
   

• Communications related

1. Coffee talks
2. Mentors
3. "Linked In" membership
4. Alumni + Day students +WP Students connectivity

• Proactive School Measurement

1. Mandatory contribution. As part of the ASM membership fees??
2. "Linked In" membership
3. Conference

• Visibility of School

1. Thank-a-thon
2. Picnic booth
3. "Linked In"
4. Athletic program
5. Conference
6. MBA Day

• Ethical/Value based leadership

1. Net Impact ethics resources
2. Tim has huge resources
3. Mentors
4. conference

Board meeting minutes 01/23/2006

Up-Coming Events:

• The super bowl party was welcomed unanimously by the board. Logistics are being worked out for the Feb 4th party.

• The ASM golf tournament is scheduled or May 4th.

Net Impact Honorarium:

• The board decided to honor the Net Impact Club for significant contributions in promoting the school at the National level.
• A GSM event with contributions from the ASM, the school and the Net Impact club was decided to be the best form of recognition.
• An upper cap of $600 was voted upon for the ASM contribution to the event.

Day-time "Program Structure Survey":

• The survey questions have been finalized and approved.
• The survey will be sent out to the students in the coming weeks.

Last Week's Meetings:

• Meeting with Assoc. Dean: Many concerns outlined in the coffee talks were discussed and concerns that can be tackled pronto were listed out. Other concerns which need more information or which were not clear like student lockers, newspapers and periodicals, access to room 174 were taken up as action items by the ASM.

• Meeting with the Dean: "Voice of the students" - thats the primary expectation the Dean has of the ASM. In addition other expectations were to represent the school, participate in school events like preview day, and lastly to give back to the school. It was brought to the notice of the board that Alumni monetary contributions is a significant component of the school ranking system.
  

GSM Preview Day: The recently preview went well and preparation for the last preview
day in Feb is on-going.

Goals and Commitments: The board decided to discuss the goals for 2007 in the next meeting
due to lack of sufficient quorum.

Web Page Updates:

• The board pictures are still awaited and will be uploaded immediately upon receive.
  
• No updates from the club web pages. The Net Impact web pages are up to date and revised by the new board.
  
• It was decided to provide the ASM board contact email addresses are to be on the web pages.

Board meeting - 01/16/2006

Significant issues discussed at the board meeting.
1. An alternative date for the board meeting was decided to be on Wed
7:45 to 8:45 in AOB 161. This was considered as an alternative in case
the board is unable to meet at the weekly scheduled times.
2. The board voted against reimbursing travel expenses for the Net
Impact conference and decided to table 'other' ideas on how the Net
Impact club can be rewarded for making significant contributions towards
promoting the school.
3. The coffee talks for this year were discussed and the board agreed on
taking relevant actions on some of the feedback.
4. The board brainstormed on ideas for laying down the goals and
commitments for the year 2007. Following is the summary of the ideas
stormed....
- GSM expectations from the board. What is the school's vision? Do
the goals of the ASM fall in line with the visions of the school?
- Visibility of our school; external, to the community, and prospective
- Feedback; constructive or just feedback
- ASM as a vehicle to communicate student voice
- "Nebulous" need for communication
- Student involvement, both local and international students.
Possibly by forming "Buddies"
- Proactive school advancement; Top 20, Leadership
- Look into the goals of other student body organizations in some of
the top B-schools.
5. Need was felt for a more updated ASM and club web-pages, with a
better look and feel.

ASM board meeting 01/09/-2006

The first ASM board of the newly elected officers kicked off with a great start.

The board went over the board meeting procedures and finalized the board meeting schedule. Chris gave the board a pep talk on the expectations of the board and its charter. The board agreed on strengthening communications within the board, with the staff, faculty and other students.

The board discussed the Ed Policy Meeting and upcoming student survey regarding potential future Daytime Program Structure adjustments.

A point about having a 'beginning of winter quarter' social was brought up and plans for it are underway.