Meeting Minutes

Attendees:

Jenny
Jack
Lisa

Discussion/Business:
1. We got all the paperwork in so we are a student organization. YAY!

2. If you come into 659 to use the space, please sign in on the sign-in sheet so that Lisa can show ppl that we’re using the space.

3. We have a new Rubber Ducky mascot. He sits on the ELN reading bookshelf. Jenny would like him to have a name. Suggestions?

4. People STILL need to sign up for the website. Get a wordpress account and let me know what email you registered with. -Jenny is going to set Jack up an account because Jack is super busy.

5. EWEEK – we were scheduled for Sat again this year.

6. Has anyone gone to any leadership events/speakers lately? Care to share if you have? (Reminder: There’s a leadership speaker series posted on the website for those who want to go.)

7. Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution–And How It Can Renew America is a book by Thomas L. Friedman (author of the World is Flat), proposing that the solutions to global warming and the best method to regain the United States’ economic and political stature in the world is to embrace the clean energy and green technology industries. – Description lifted from Wikipedia. Jack says this is supposed to be amazing – if anyone checks it out let us know.

8. WHERE HAVE ALL THE LEADERS GONE?
And by leaders, we mean everyone. It looks like the meeting every week at 2 different times isn’t working out well. Do we want to try a different meeting scheme? What about meeting on weekends, maybe for Sunday brunch of sorts? We could meet at Squires and all get ABP. We could meet elsewhere and do other food arrangements as well. If that doesn’t work, what about dinners on weeknights? What does everyone think? Reply to the listserv with any more suggestions on how we can get the ball rolling again.

9. Upcoming What do we want to do in terms of an agenda for our meetings? One suggestion is discuss books (like SWAY, there are still copies in 659.) Another suggestion we talked about is maybe having a series of discussions on personal leadership experiences and problems. We could also (and this is a new spur of the moment thought from Jenny) maybe have everyone brainstorm a list of discussion topics for our meetings. (Ex. Today I heard a great interview question – do you think Hitler was a good leader?) We could have everyone think for the week on whatever the next week’s topic is and then come in to meetings to discuss.

Another possibility could be to create a presentation/seminar for a wider audience (maybe the leadership residence program?) about our leadership expereiences/things we’ve learned as leaders/leadership advice/how to get involved in leadership roles. What does everyone think? Again, respond to listserv with comments/suggestions.

That’s all for this week! (Someone take notes tomorrow!)
Jenny

Meeting Minutes

Attendees:
Meredith
Jenny
Meg
Kirsten

Discussed activities

1.        bike building during e week (spring)
2.        dc trip (whenever)
3.        book reading (possible.read it over winter break because you don’t
have much to talk about the first week back and also it gives you something
to do over break)

a.        jason’s book: the sway
b.        other option.the world is flat

 

instead of rolling applications.ask people to join both semesters (so then
maybe we could do a ropes course each semester or something similar to know
the new kids)

- is it too late this semester to recruit people?

 

Deliverables:

1.        Meredith send application over engineering listservs: Thursday group
decide on the above action before I do this
2.        jenny is posting meeting minutes on wordpress website (someone for
Thursday.should as well)

Meeting notes

So, today we had our first meeting of the year, following is the summary:

1.  Meredith is going to turn in paperwork for us to be a student organization.

2. We’re going to try and focus this year on several projects, like the DC trip and Eweek bike building event, and doing them well.

3. We’re going to try to hold 2 different meeting times in the hopes of getting more people involved this semester.

4. We’re going to try and post reading materials on the website.

5. Everyone who hasn’t signed up for wordpress needs to create a wordpress account and send jenny an email telling her what email address you used to sign up for wordpress so you can be added as an admin to the blog.

6. Jenny brought info about the Leadership speaker series going on this year. Everyone who wants to/is free should try and attend and we can discuss at meetings.

Leadership Speaker Series

All events are in Brush Mountain Room A of Squires unless otherwise noted.

Sept 10 – Leadership: What does it mean to you? (341/345 Squires)
Sept 22 – Finding your place through student organizations
Oct 6 – Getting involved in your community
Oct 22 – You can lead, but can you mentor? (341/345 Squires)
Nov 5 – Is leadership really leadership without ethics?
Nov 19 – Global Perspectives on Leadership
Jan 29 – Followership, the other side of leadership (341/345 Squires)
Feb 12 – Avoiding Toxic Leadership
Feb 23 – Making Your Leadership experience work for you
March 19 – Gender and Leadership: the glass ceiling revisited (341/345 Squires)

First Meeting of the year!

Please respond to the Doodle Poll at http://www.doodle.ch/gpxtqh3pfamxgtrv so we can decide on a meeting date for the first week of school.