University of Washington – AIMS

ASSOCIATION OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT STUDENTS
Mary Gates Hall 370

Box 352840

Seattle, WA 98195
Website: http://students.washington.edu/infomgmt/

Meeting Minutes – 8 April 2010

Call to order: A regular meeting of the Association of Information Management Students was held in MGH 310D, Seattle, WA on Thursday, 8 April 2010.

The meeting convened at 08:17PM, President Jordan Eschler presiding.

Attendance:

Officer Reports

Retiring President (Nick Malone):

Student Leadership Council (Budget). Meeting (April 8^th 2010) update.  Each program has two seats on the SLC.  The Dean gave the budget proposal for next year & explained how it would affect the students.  Two takeaways: 1) overall favorable, budget decreasing 1.3% and no one is losing a job; student services will remain constant and 2) there will be 50 students in the Day MSIM cohort next year.

MSIM Registration. MSIM is normalizing the fees for fee-based students; the Execs pay more per credit now, but soon all fee-based programs will pay the same per credit – so the difference will be phased out.  Also increasing the number of XML classes offered.  Winter quarter targeted to Day students and Spring quarter targeted to Exec students.  Will reserve more slots in both classes specifically for MSIM.

MSIM is in negotiations with UWEO to register for classes before paying for them.  This would be a significant change in dynamics for international students in particular.

President: Jordan Eschler

Strategic planning document.  Went over the features of the document, and the two major strategy pushes for next year: Mentorship and compulsory Committee service.

Program Committee Representative: Paul Simons

Mentorship Program. Paul discussed the mentorship program and coordinating with Kathy Wong on AIMS taking the reins of the program (with her help).  Also discussed how mentors/mentees will be matched up.  Perhaps mentors could distribute information to admitted students from Kathy Wong to enhance the dissemination as well as give more exposure to AIMS.  Brian brought up the idea of bringing a ‘cheat sheet’ to the IMT500 class with our contact information on it.

Program committee meetings. Paul brought up the point that some information from program committee meetings is confidential and should not be shared with AIMS generally.   The members present discussed not sharing information with all students through AIMS.

Treasurer: Megha Thakkar

Introducing AIMS officers. Megha brought to our attention that the AIMS officers are not well-known with the Day students and she would like to introduce us in a class.  We will do so Monday 4/12 in IMT520.

Advised on a ‘suggestion box’ online for day & exec students.  Nick Malone pointed out that we could hold ‘open complaint’ sessions and invite everyone + Mike Crandall.  But students might not be as open with Mike there; the group decided to move forward with the open sessions and decide later about having Mike here.

Technology Officer: Stuart Maxwell

Got everyone access to the blog.  Everyone should check it out.  Paul had some problems publishing a post.  They resolved to talk about it after.  A couple of people have contacted him about more information on the website and create more social features.  Desire to do more with website, but we need focused time to talk about it.  Should go on agenda for next time. Ashish started a flickr site that streams to our website as well.

Vice-President: Brian LeBlanc

Report from Vice President (Brian):  Urgent need for a space for the barbecue.  Will probably be held at Ravenna Park again this year.   Brian will keep in contact with Mario, and will reserve the space.

Officers’ reports:

Secretary: Emily Oxenford [NOT PRESENT]

Executive Liaison: Jason Robertson [NOT PRESENT]

Social Media Officer: Ashish Malviya [NOT PRESENT]

Public Relations Officer: Ajay Pillay [NOT PRESENT]

New business:

Spring BBQ Event

Nick Malone

To-Do List:

1 – reserve a space

2 – budget food @ Costco

3 – reserve equipment from the IMA + RSO (volleyball net, footballs, soccer balls)

4 – print flyers

5 – distribute flyers in class

6 – go shopping

7 – three people show up early to set up

8 – note: Alcohol is a no-no at the park; no AIMS money spent on beer

Announcements:

Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned.

Prepared:

Emily Oxenford                          17 April 2010

AIMS Secretary                                    Date of approval