President Michael Bennie '10
Vice President Maggie Delano '10
Treasurer Alex Dehnert '12
Secretary General Liz Denys '11
Speaker of the Senate Paul Baranay '11
Vice-Chair of the Senate Tim Stumbaugh '12
Undergraduate Association Progress
What we are working on and the status of each project.
- Blue Ribbon Dining Transparency
- Student representatives allowed to have public discussions
- Released committee membership
- Released summary of past meetings
- Answered 20 common student questions and posted document online
- Released committee's communication to the consultant
- Released consultant's draft recommendations
- Ensured voting rules were clarified (3/4th majority to approve any recommendation)
- Ensured membership rules were clarified (membership is closed)
- Invited Donna Denoncourt (chair of the committee) to a UA Senate meeting (3/9)
- Working to release full summaries of each meeting
- Working to release a calendar of events until final recommendations
- Working to release the first draft of the consultant's report
- Working to schedule public hearings on the committee's recommendations
- Working on Interact: a website to facilitate information sharing between administrators and students (a project of the Institute Committee on Student Life)
- New UA website
- Basic documents (constitution, bylaws, minutes, bills) now easily accessable
- UA Senate twitter
- Adding more documents (Institute Committee minutes, past Senate bills and minutes, etc.)
- Working to create feedback mechanisms
- Next SafeRide
- Working to put a large TV outside the student center to track currently running SafeRides
- Working with the Transportation Office and Audio/Visual Services to ensure compliance with Cambridge law regulating outside electronic displays
- Recyclemania 2009
- FSILG Recycling
- Agreement from Residential Life for a pilot study
- Solidfying contract for a packer truck
- Increasing communications with the Tech
- Talking with opinion editor about the format of the column
- Secured funding for and preparing to launch faculty dinners
- Starting Community Conversations, a project to facilitate group conversations between students, faculty, and administrators
- SafeRide
- Revised the Boston All route so that a SafeRide would cross the bridge every 30 minutes instead of every 60 minutes
- Assisted in rerouting Boston Daytime to meet the requirements of the Boston Transportation Department
- GIR Report from student survey that was present before the faculty
- PLUS Leadership Program
- DormStorm 2008
- Working on Enrollment Committee report
- COOP textbook website (http://mitcoopbooks.bncollege.com)
- Athletics weekend Fall 2008
- Planning Athletics weekend Spring 2009
- Fall Festival 2008
- Planning Spring Weekend 2009
- Advocated for international students worried about the transfer to VOIP phones on campus
- Distributed student dining surveys and worked with chefs to improve the quality of food in dining halls
- Facilitated unbiased elections by securing an agreement by the Student Activities Office to oversee them
- Assisted with the redesign of the Barker Library reading room
- Transitioning student mail to a more easily accessible system
- Sustainability Pamphlets 2008
- Working on campus fruit stand
- Working on webcam to track the hours of food trucks
- Creating a fiscal check on the class councils by allowing Senate to approve their budgets
- Working to have the fall career fair on a student holiday
- Going to Faculty Policy Committee for permission to present at a faculty meeting
- Attempting to get faculty to approve a change in the calendar to facilitate this idea
- Joint effort with the Graduate Student Council