President's Forum Minutes
Sunday, February 5, 2017
- Icebreaker (What we share)
- Taking risks and changing the pathways of group
- Bringing back the importance of history in our groups
- Bridging the gap between respective groups; meeting new people
- Fear of curveballs and current political climate
- Key Takeaways
- There is no one set criteria to being an APSC member
- We share a lot of commonalities, whether we know it or not
- What has APSC been doing well?
- Board liaisons increase comfort in the APSC space
- Sabino’s political newsletter summarizes political climate
- APSC president’s dinner was a casual setting to meet new leaders in community
- What can APSC do better?
- Treasurer’s meeting
- Be more personal with groups, getting to know more of the groups better
- APSC initiatives feedback
- Support for initiatives towards health
- I CARE Training (February 28th, 5-8pm) Dinner provided
- Module must be completed before hand
- Potentially sending General Boards as well (for smaller boards)
- May be difficult to send people to the training (class/lack of interest/rehearsal for other events/midterms)
- Would you need to do I CARE Training if you have already gone through it? Send another member to I CARE
- Goal is to expose more people to I CARE Training
- Suggestion: Have two sessions of I CARE Training, to help people work better with their schedules
- Suggestion: Have a session on the weekend
- Subsidized ticket
- Can APSC subsidize the tickets out of their own budget?
- 8 groups have culture shows/large events
- VSA- Subsidize 50% of the ticket for all APSC board members
- PTS- Allowing APSC board members to pay a member’s fee
- Lack of clarity in the benefits of only providing one free ticket
- APSC’s job is to be a supporter of constituents, they should not be favored
- If there is a subsidy for APSC board, why not a subsidy for a regular member of the group?
- Constituent groups feedback
- Show up to more free events (come to events that don’t cost money)
- Make information of each group more accessible
- Post meeting minutes on website and include a link in the newsletter
- The website is a place to find APSC resources!
- Google Drive shared folder
- More events such as President Forum to facilitate intergroup exposure (board mixers)
- Difficulty logistically coordinate events with APSC groups
- Collaboration between groups
- Make it easier to find the right person to contact from a group
- President’s Facebook group
- A short, 30-60 minute event for external chairs
- GroupMe with external chairs of respective APSC groups
- Potentially have a systematic, easy way to reach out (every month send out a list of groups that are ready to collaborate in newsletter)
- Collaboration is based on the content of the event, not just availabilities
- Penn Q&A-Send board members/APSC members to attend more events supporting other communities
- Passion projects→ how effective are they really?
- Have a real reason behind hosting APSC events
- APSC will put constituent events first and foremost