November

14th Student Government meeting Topics Covered: 1. High School College Program relations a. Yr 1 and Yr 2 talks with 10th graders b. 10th graders auditing Yr1 and Yr2 classes c. An earlier college program course catalogue distribution 2. Advisory announcements 3. Bulletin boards Announcements/important tidbits: - C2Cbased from Bard collegeA weekend (Friday and Saturday night) workshop on leadership and sustainability. Attendance is application- based. It is open only to undergraduates (Y1 and Y2) There is a small fee (30$) but Pat can help financially. The workshop is from November 30th-December 2nd. The application deadline is November 20th. - - - Things to follow-up on after this meeting/Things that were brought up but not discussed: - - - - - - 1. High School College Program relations a. Yr 1 and Yr 2 talks with 10th graders There was already a program last year for this exact thing, but it should be more organized. Also, it can be a problem to get Yr1s and Yr2s to participate. Bulletin boards! The questionnaire results to see how teachers feel about 10th grade audits College program talks to 10th graders (is the program from last year still up and running?) Course catalogue distribution (is it possible?) What is the role of an advisory? How should that time be used? What is the role of the student government in relation to advisories? Pie day is December 10th! The college program class syllabi (for all previous classes) are all online at http://bhsec.bard.edu/queens/catalogue/ http://bhsecqactivities.weebly.com/ is the new BHSECQ academic activities website, and contains all advisory announcements as well

b. 10th graders auditing Yr1 and Yr2 classes This was Exavier (?)s idea, from last year. He sent out a teacher questionnaire to see how many yr1 and yr2 classes would be willing to let 10th graders in. Pros Cons - It is more helpful to visit - There could be scheduling conflicts the classes, rather than - The college program is more about a just talk about them student-teacher relationship, so - In the past, there has auditing the class might not provide been a lot of anxiety that about the transition, so it - Too many auditing students could might help change the atmosphere and could be pointless c. An earlier college program course catalogue distribution Idea: we should give out the course catalogue at the beginning of the sophomore year spring semester. - 10th graders can think about the classes without too much anxiety - A course catalogue would prompt 10th graders to think about what courses they want to take - They can ask around for information about the course and/ teachers - We can hand out the course catalogues from the previous years, or hand one out that is subject to change just for the general idea 2. Advisory announcements Lots of advisors do not read all of the announcements. What can we do about it? - Create a couple groups of student government representatives to go around the advisories and announce all of the announcements This can be more caring and/ special, so the students would pay more attention to them. - One advisee from each advisory reads all of the announcements. (Probably the student representative) Less time consuming, and students pay more attention to students Advisors don't want to read the announcements, so they would be happy to let their advisees read - Kate sends the advisory announcements directly to each of our emails, and we thus dont need announcements in advisory It would no longer be our advisors responsibility to read, it would be our own responsibilities.

3. The use of the 4 bulletin boards outside of Kate Fullertons office. Each one should be used for each grade. Important things to decide (answers in parenthesis are possibilities): - What are these bulletin boards for? - Who will have the key to the bulletin boards? Who will operate and update them? (Yr 1s or student government representatives) - Should there be permit systems? - Whose contact info should be on the boards? (create a drop off box or a new gmail account just for the submissions) - What materials would we need to utilize the boards best? Things to keep in mind: Y1 and Y2 probably have the passion, but 9th and 10th graders may not care as much. Too much information can overwhelm the reader There is already a clubs list outside of Kates office These bulletin boards would need to be updated