University of Washington – AIMS
ASSOCIATION OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT STUDENTS
Website: http://students.washington.edu/infomgmt/
Meeting Minutes – 28th April 2010
Call to order: A general meeting of the Association of Information Management Students was held in MGH 310D, Seattle, WA on 28 April 2010.
The meeting convened at 6:10 PM, President Jordan Eschler presiding, and Emily Oxenford, Secretary.
Attendance:
| Officers in Attendance: | Officers Not in Attendance: | Officers Remote |
| Jordan Eschler
Stuart Maxwell Ajay Pillay Emily Oxenford Brian LeBlanc Megha Thakkar |
Paul Simons
Ashish Malviya |
Jason Robertson |
Approval of minutes: Motion was made by Jordan and seconded to approve the minutes of the 17th April 2010 meeting.
Motion carried at 6:11PM.
Open Forum (6:12PM):
Tony: Brought up issue of changing curriculum for the 2011-2012 year. Questioning of changing IMT 540 as part of track, not required for all.
Ajay: Need to strengthen AIMS as a whole. Increase participation and activity. Intend to increase awareness within cohort.
Discussion: Need to increase communication
Buttons & Printing Advertising: A central repository for ways to contact AIMS.
Office Hours: Idea of having 30 minutes of open “office hours”.
Officers’ reports:
President: Kathy Wong is sending out package for accepted students, including BBQ invitation, blog post and email.
Vice president: BBQ Update. We have moved event date to the 6th
Secretary: Room access for AIMS officers
Treasurer: Waiting on bank cards
Executive Liaison: Working on signage.
Technology Officer: How to better use the tools we have
Social Media Officer: Not Present
Program Committee Representative: Not Present
Public Relations Officer: Pen Stanton’s Event: Arranged a speaker (Jared Spool) on UX Design. Arranged a space in Kane Hall. Doing it with HCDE (they’re doing cost). May 20th 6PM to 8PM. 2) Logo contest is now in the timing stage. 3) Alumni were on campus. Willing to be involved.
Special Orders: None
Unfinished Business:
Archer Award:
Jordan: Fairly low maintenance. Survey is ready. There is a flyer. Nomination period will open May 3rd.
Mentorship Program
Jordan: Paul is taking over as the face of the student feedback survey. AIMS is sponsoring the survey, and becoming the connection between students. Paul and Jordan now have administrative control. Going out on May 1st.
For the Day students, a catalyst survey will be sent out to ask existing students if they are interested in being connected by email by the new students. If answer “no”, will be asked why.
New business: None
Announcements: Next meeting Saturday, May 8th at 1pm, in MGH 310D.
Budget: We have to turn in our budget in early June. This will be on the agenda for next meeting.
Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 7:13PM.
Emily Oxenford_________________
Secretary
Association of Information Management Students