11/1 BSG Assembly Notes

Attendance:

Anyi Sun

Brandon Lozano Garay

Danielle Lancaster

Chase Lenk

Abigail Martin

Sachin Maharaj

Alex Kruse

Niña Ramores

Sadie New

Eisa Rafat

John Donoghue

Mundo Ortiz Alvarez

Harper Stevenson

Alejandro Ramos

Camila Eljuri

Ollie Tannahil

Nyla Danzy

Temi Agunloye

Melissa Su

Chelsea Moody

Elliott Ewell

Cash Reynolds

Eman Okyere

Timmy Ignacio

Eva Sola-Sole

Vincent Chen

Ugne Stasiukynaite

Zahren York

Liliana Restrepo

Call to Order

Proposal(s) to Vote

• 2324–7: More transparency and communication in BSG Budget Creation

• Motion passes

Agenda to Vote (to be voted on next week)

• 2324–8: Creation of a BSG Award to honor uncommon contributions to BSG’s work
• 2324-9: Mundo’s; $600 to Student Affairs; 30 copies of Yara and 30 copies of Minor Detail

Student Belonging Survey – Marcus Gadsden ‘24

• The Student Belonging Survey is trying to gauge how race, gender, the student/athlete divide, and social scenes (among other things_ attribute to a sense of belonging on campus
• The Office of Inclusion and Diversity plans to release the survey mid-February
• Res Life, BSG, and AOCC will have access to survey results;
• They are trying to provide as much info as possible to students – want transparency
• Many of the questions will be student-generated
• There will be an info session about the survey held in December
• The survey will be sent out every 3 years

Senior Vice President for Inclusion and Diversity – Benje Douglas

• • Benje enjoys working with students because of the campus connections that can be made
  • You can be in touch with Benje about the survey
    • Aim for higher than 86% success rate
    • Working closely with students helped
  • He works to create opportunities for students and staff to have best experience possibility
    • Barriers to success can be complicated or obvious, and his job is to acknowledge and hopefully remove them for students
    • He takes acts of discrimination seriously and thoroughly investigate them
    • Hopes to create a sense of belonging
  • To Benje, belonging means that a person has a few places on campus where others are happy to see them and care about what they have to say
  • Fun is important for affinity groups, and it is key to having hard conversations

• Initiatives the Office of I&D is working on:

• Student Belonging Survey

• Employee support – employee resource group, parenting, queer employees, employees of color

• Processes of campus that can be addressed through lens of inclusion

Committee Reports

• • Student Affairs, Edmundo Ortiz Alvarez ‘23
    • Harper & Alejandro: Going to meet with Sandra Hayes next week
    • Camila: more advertisement of Headspace
    • Book club
  • Student Organizations Oversight Committee, Alex Kruse ‘26
    • No real update – meeting on Friday
  • Academic Affairs, Abigail Martin ‘26
    • Still waiting to hear from Dean Scanlon
    • Academic panel still in the works
    • Working on Thanksgiving break extension logistics
  • Facilities & Sustainability, Brandon Lozano-Garay ‘24
    • Had an informal meeting today – packed laundry sheets
    • Elliot: Passed around sample BSG poster headers; Dining Advisory Committee meeting 11/27 from 5-6pm

• Diversity & Inclusion, Sachin Maharaj ‘24

• • • Halloween email will go out tomorrow

• Student Activities Funding Committee, Danielle Lancaster ‘26

• • Had first meeting as a full committee

Report of the Vice President – constitutional review updates

• Working on making the Constitution more readable
  • Writing out each role individually

• Breaking it down into articles, committees
• Bylaws