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February 10, 2004



Present: All
Guest: Jane Curtis, Habib, Yuan, Kulsolm, Alex Shim


New IHC Chair: Kim!

Jane Curtis: for health survey-needed to talk to student leaders ' us! :
National College Health Assessment-comprehensive on line survey that will help get feedback from students that Jane needs to do her job right
In the process of getting money and marketing for it
Perception and use will both be surveyed
Protective and other factors
Become part of aggregate national data set
Next Tuesday the survey go up
Goal: help in knowing how to help people on campus
Some sample questions will be up on board soon
Students NEED to take survey
Friday students will get info on survey from Jane (it is confidential, voluntary)
Tuesday survey will come out from the National Organization-says "Jane's" name
Don't want email to be buried in Inbox-want people to take it!
Again everything is confidential…
Data only used by Jane: not health center, women's center, etc… ' only Jane
Survey only available for 10 days
$1300 worth of prizes: restaurant discount, dvd, itunes, $300 cash prize (house with highest response), etc
They'll give house percentage and 50 emails
Work with data in summer-give data back in Fall
Not house dependent-no difference what the houses do, etc
Took A LOT of time-won't be able to do this again for another few years-means a lot to do this now
What will it be used for? Challenges and Choices?-maybe
Why important for survey to go through third party?-it's a better system; third party means secure
Response Rate: looking for 50%--wow that's impressive!
How to get that: Health Ad announcements, prizes, house money
Encourage your house-encourage ppl…etc
Where will signs be? All over :

Meeting with Margo
Capra: --special talk for Kim-
Last year met with Toms and they talked about selling Capra…okay give us some student retreat site…they promised us one…then they were going to write something promising us this-didn't happen!
Some people didn't want to put the money from sale to student retreat cite or endowment for students
Margo talked to Baltimore, and they both want to student retreats :
How much? Original $50,000 a year ($1 million endowment-most of sale)
Dropping it to $30,000 (includes houses, clubs, grad, etc)
The man has spoken-so it will happen
Some people think that we should ask for the $50,000-things are getting expensive
Selling Capra will help save money
Will there be a formal website to have places ppl can go to retreat? Not now-Tom know's
Arrange it through Tom…so he knows a lot…just ask him
Natalia thinks that there should be a list of possible places and the costs…
What to do? Kim will figure it out :
Renovations
Went to Trustees-building and grounds committee
Presented it and their response: told her to go back and consider more options
This is good. Why? To make this feasible, there would be no swing housing…, etc
Told her to reconsider a swing house
Put the north and south houses as one project
Margo meet with Trustees in March (meet again with building and ground ones and finance ones)
Layout will be what?
TURLI report…discussion what it is, etc
In March-if things pass, then they will start
Student Center-Feldblum said that we need to have a meeting with campus center group to go over what's been done and how input has been used, etc
Presidential avery thing shouldn't happen during those years for housing purposes

Faculty Board Meeting
Hunt presented our report-no one cared
One question, students need to take responsibility for damaging-will they be okay: Jeremy YES
Registering for classes online
Overlapping classes? Can't register off-the collar, have to have a good reason-BAD news
Right now, pre-over ride
Registrar will hopefully take out
Enrollment time now two weeks-with this system, G students get priority first week; UG get to use second week
Go on, submit classes, email to advisor, they have to go in and approve…
For us March 4-March 10
Add and Drop Day Paper ' will be changed later
Keep adding features
Still double check to make sure ppl taking what they should? Reserves spots in classes once click okay

Avery issue
Spoke to Margo-stalled because nothing new heard from Avery Committee
Well advertised that kicked out for the summer? Fighting against it
Do they know how many spots open for students? 50 sports for each program (2 programs), said that they will find sports for Grad students
Kim said that meet with IHC end of term and then organize a housing committee meeting very end of term

Food Stuff
Thurs 9 AM: start interviewing for Melissa replacement
Find someone in next two weeks
Take top two finalists to dinner in two of houses
Tell them about houses, etc
Ryan Farmer and Natalia will do most of questioning



Kim Info
Ext 3957
MSC 761
Email kimpop@its

IHC Meeting Next Week: Thursday Noon Ricketts
Friday Feb 20th: email ihc

Margo Agenda:
Invite Tom Mannion







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