Date: April 19, 2015
Location: Lecture Hall, Macaulay Honors
Guest Administrator/Host: Gianina Chrisman, Macaulay’s Assistant Director of Internships and Undergraduate Research
Chair: Ari Himber
Scribe: Sara Louie
- Administration News
- Commons will be used longer than expected. Oh construction woes…
- 3rd floor 3N will soon be used for needed office space
- Bare with Macaulay as the building is under construction
- Internships
- Jan 2014 – when Gianina joined us!
- New grant: a new intern and hire will help to develop a new system for internships across all interests that Macaulay students are focused on.
- Certain schools have started seeing the system (Lehman, John Jay)
- The “Simplicity” system will allow for resumes to be uploaded
- Will help create a resume book
- Also has a resource library
- Helping Students Thinking About Changing Majors: information about opportunities based on different majors like timelines
- Will be able to tell you if you’re qualified right off-the-bat.
- Commons will be used longer than expected. Oh construction woes…
- Uh oh, people are emailing Gianina about internships from NYU, India, etc! Especially an issue with organizations who offer Macaulay-only internships who don’t want the general public to see.
- A new form has been added to post to try and prevent these issues.
- A new system will be implemented once it’s figured out
- New resume book system would help students to opt in and see only the positions they are most interested in. ~a more personalized Macaulay Monday
- For Macaulay Now posts if it says contact Gia for more information, those are MHC student specific. If not, it is ok to share those opportunities with others.
- CUNY 2020: pitched ideas for cabaret room
- Contact Gia!
- If there’s an organization that you’d like to intern at, let her know! She’ll keep an eye out and see what can be done.
- If there’s a bug, glitch, error on the Macaulay Now site, let her know! She’ll make sure it’s fixed.
- If you’re a club leader and want to cohost an event, let her know! Macaulay would love to work with you.
- Volunteer opportunities – not supervised under a certain person
- Gianina will be on maternity leave: June 20th – September.
- Macaulay Events
- Arts Night
- Event is at 5:30pm
- No assistance needed from MSC members who signed up to help with Macaulay Arts Night
- Arts Night
- The public is welcome to come!
- Spring Formal (May 9th: 7-11pm)
- Theme
- Outer Space Theme? Astronauts & Aliens
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- A Night in Paris or European Night Theme?
- Vienna?
- Venice ß
- Spain
- Disney
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s
- Night at the Opera
- Greek Theme
- Frozen: wear sparkley, cool tone dreses
- Outer Space Theme? Astronauts & Aliens
- Event
- Photobooth & Photographers?
- Who do we want to DJ?
- Ari has a friend
- People liked last year’s DJ and musical performance
- Lights, etc.
- Triplets Concert “50 Shades of Red” (May 1st)
- Free at Baruch @7PM
- Ad campaign starts next week
- Gender Equality Club’s Inaugural Poetry Slam (May 2nd @6pm)
- Theater Club Inaugural Musical Showcase
- Final Exams Wellness Program (May 20th @ 5-9)
- Newsletter Wellness Event
- Discussion for Spring Picnic/Olympics
- All or nothing: we’d like Six Flags
- Group lunch meal together
- Group T-Shirts
- If not: Beach Day Trip
- Jacob Riis Park
- All or nothing: we’d like Six Flags
- Theme
- Other Ideas:
- Renaissance Fair – upstate
- Governors Island
- Lehman Campus: can’t use this space?
- Club Proposal
- Macaulay Photography Club by Chris Cali – approved
- Magazine a semester
- Have a photographer database for events
- Macaulay Photography Club by Chris Cali – approved
- Use Macaulay Passport to go to projects
- Work with Macaulay Arts Night
- TEDxCUNY Town Hall
- April 22nd @ 6:30-8:30 – 1st meeting
- Come with questions, theme ideas, issues, and hopes to see in the fall.
- Campus Liaisons needed at different campuses
- Hosted at Macaulay
- Spread word about the event! There’s an event page on Facebook
- Macaulay Scholars Website
- Macaulay Scholars Council account to make calendar
- Steve needs access
- Content: need to create a google form for information
- Macaulay Scholars Council account to make calendar
- Macaulay x CUNY BA Minor?
- Why: to create minor system so that students can
- Question to Drew
- Club Updates
- South Asian Health Initiative: meeting for general interest
- Humans of Macaulay: recruiting photographers for campuses, want to expand actual club so that there is a meeting per month, trying to interview seniors
- Mabuhay: focusing on working with the organization they work with to figure out their summer trip to help aid relief from tycoons and environmental justice
- Global Brigades: 50 people came for regional conference and attending workshops. No more event plans for the rest of the year. Next is the trips: Medical/Dental/Public Health Brigade in Nicaragua and Human Rights Brigade in Panama
- Psych Update: newsletter complete, needs to be printed. Working on plans for wellness event.
- Messenger: working on next issue
- Law Society: Event at Columbia law
- Hillel: launch next semester, want speakers
- Chamber Music: will be performing at arts night and have meetings (join them!)
- Macaulay Triplets: arts night
- Debate Society: have had a couple meetings, seems like they have a good membership group. Some attended another competition at Wellesley. Want to create an event at Macaulay.
- Campus Updates
- Baruch – no updates
- Hunter
- Hunter Greenroof: it’s a thing!
- Brooklyn
- Jake is a Truman Scholar
- Lehman
- Organizing first event: Lehman Honor Student meet with Alumni
- Organizing by major
- After
- CSI – no updates
- Queens
- Six Flags Event
- CCNY
- Open Mic Event
- Ice Cream Finals Party
- John Jay – no updates
- Organizing first event: Lehman Honor Student meet with Alumni