Meeting held 09/06/2019

Submitted by amelia.lord@bob... on September 16, 2019 - 9:49pm
Meeting Date: 
Friday, September 6, 2019
Meeting Location: 
A&S 116
Committee: 
Student Affairs Policy Committee
Special Meeting: 
No
Minutes: 
File SAPC Sept. 6.docx
Minutes Text: 

SAPC

Meeting called to order at 2pm in room 116

  • Agendas are passed out
  • Approved and seconded

Minutes for last meeting approved unanimously

Introductions 

 

3 guests 

Dr. Womack

Jennifer Graham

Melissa Gerrior

Stacy Milner

 

Nondiscrimination Clause discussion

  • Cameron Watts reads the Clause provided by Dr.Womack

Discussion:

  • Seems outdated- conversation has shifted from equal opportunity to equity
  • Last edit was about 3 years ago
  • Making sure to keep in mind that we need to make it passable by the Senate.
  • Gender Identity is missing 
  • 3 years ago Gender Identity was included but Board of regents legal team informed us that we should wait until further action was taken statewide
  • Legal at gcsu is looking back into it in the coming weeks
  • Other prominent Universities have changed their state
  • Gender Identity is included on other sites within GCSU including HR 
  • If university Senate passes then Legal can shoot down again
  • Other departments operate more inclusivity that the university is presenting however, when hiring one may think that there is more acceptance than the University demands
  • Would USG rejecting our proposal mean that other universities are operating outside of USG?
  • How early had other universities adopted this language?
    • UGA 2011 - 2018
      • Update Quarterly
  • Qiana (head of Legal) invited to next meeting
    • In 2 weeks she will be meeting with other Heads of Legal across Ga Universities
    • SAPC will be sharing our direct concerns with her so that she may direct her questions towards 
  • UGA has a lengthy policy- more descriptive 
    • What we should strive for
    • Maybe we should adopt the language of UGA or Tech so that 
    • “We have not created out own statement we have followed the leading universities”
  • Dr.Womack fully supports the ideas of the committee however, she understands that just because we pass something at GCSU does not mean it will be policy
  • Be mindful that we need as much information as possible 
    • Waiting two weeks 
    • Ensuring that we understand other universities policy
    •  Passing Questions along to bring up in legal meeting
  • Should we be reviewing our clause quarterly
  • Special Meeting after University Senate Sept.20th?
    • Decision will be made after getting more information 
    • Email, discussion has started about our nondiscrimination clause and we have concerns and questions, would like to have a meeting once she has collected more information
    • Opening up the possibility of meeting before our next regular meeting

Questions

  • Can we add to our clause?
  • How are others able to change their clauses?
  • Are we able to adopt other universities clauses?
  • If USG says “no” are we dead in the water? How can we move forward?

 

The HUB

  • With changes in Grants and Funding, what can we do to help the HUB?
    • State funding- covers salary for Jennifer 
    • Campus Grant will run out at the end of next September
      • Melissa Salary
      • Peer facilitators
      • Travel for conference
      • Training opportunities for employees
    • Emily Brookshire will be funded through above grant- no longer supporting Victim advocates
      • New Sexual Assault Center in Milledgeville 
    • SABC
      • Student workers
      • Small events and food
      • Cultural Center helps for events 

 

  • Cultural Center
    • State funds- most cultural center needs 
    • Operational Budget- Stacy’s Salary 
    • SAPC- Events
    • Brooks- Student workers

 

  • State has changed the definition of diversity and understanding of what should be provided by universities
    • Brooks- The movement focuses around that legality for providing support for victims and not for those accused 
    • Unable to bifurcate where advocacy has to stop when it enters legal
  • Why is counseling services on west campus? Removed from Dorms 
    • Proximity aligns with access
  • Lafayette square is temporary place for sexual assault center and soon will move to central state campus
    • Possibly transportation? 
    • School of Nursing provided a grant for training for sexual assault examiners in community
      • Work with Bright House 
      • Jose Doss
    • How does Mandatory reporting fit into this?
  • More counseling services?
    • Expanding emergency services to main campus
    • Online services?
  • How will bright house services the community? 24hr
    • Closer than hospital
    • How large?
      • Still hiring staff
      • Currently have at least one advocate in each department
      • Child Advocacy
      • Still hiring a full time counselor
      • Are they vetted to work with college students?
    • Will be serving 6 counties 

 

Discussion open

  • NCHA Data - Joanna
    • There is no variable you can use to create LGBT data
    • You can look at racial breakdowns
    • Looked at cross-section of students of color and LGBT
    • Statistically significant
      • SOC- Financials and violence
      • LGBT- attempted suicide 6.4% (other students 1%)
        • 10 times more likely to face intimidation and bullying
    • Make sure that we have people of color and specialized councilors are added to counseling services staff to move to preeminence 
    • Possible line item budget to improve our outreach
    • Womack will bring up to cabinet and has understood the problem for a long time
      • Understand the importance 
      • Knows that state money may run out for these type of support
      • Making sure that Monica Delisa is in the loop to make sure that we can get a foundation account
      • LGBTQ, Cultural Center, and Women's Center all have foundation accounts as well as Inclusive Excellence
      •  

Sodexo - improving Vegan options at events as well as in the Max

  • Students enjoy the next swipe program
  • Still lacking in transparency 
  • Sharing information in surveys 
  • Wanting co-op and local farm produce
  • Knowing that local school also uses farm 
  • Community gardens and university garden
  • The concession Stand improvements ( fresh foods )

 

 Banner Name Change

  • Dead named problem continued for class role until right before class
  • Working with Kay Anderson to change class names 
    • Reprinting class roles 
    • Had to be manually changed 
    • When the student applies for an alternate email address it will work
    • SGA Website change
    • Students must seek out help to change name
    • There is no independent way to do it
    •  

Possible items for next time?

  • Bias Reporting
  • Legal conversation 
  • Strategy to make name change system institutionalized 
    • Recruitment materials
  • First year seminar