“Where there is no vision, there is no hope” – George Washington Carver
Student Government of Loyola Chicago January 13th, 2015, 4:00 PM McCormick Lounge, Coffey Hall, Lake Shore Campus Senate Minutes
1. Roll Call a. Call to order at 4:00PM 2. Visitors and Guest Speakers a. Sean Anderson, Illinois Board of Higher Education i. Sean: Student board member. Former Loyola student and USGA member. Currently at Roosevelt majoring in business management, senior. Purpose to explain what the board is and explain how Loyola can get involved. The board is the master planning and budget authority for the state. Report to governor about higher education policy. Prominent issue: Common Core and PARCC assessment. Making sure PARCC assessment will occur in high schools starting next year. The IBHE has varying levels of degree of authority, mostly over public institutions but private as well. Meetings about every other month. Much like Allocations, get a list of program approvals. Usually approve en masse. Planning and policy, budget and fiscal affairs. Look at things at a much more macro level. Board members loosely representative of universities, private business owners, etc. Board legally required to have two students on it. I represent traditional students and the other student representative (Tyler Solorio) represents non-traditional students. ii. IBHESAC (Student Advisory Council) – all the student government leaders throughout the state (public/private/community college) get together to make up the student perspective, controls my seat on the board. Student reps appointed by this body. SAC led by student at U of I. SAC legally required advisor to the board. Publishers/writers and universities get together to figure out how to approach the issue of textbook cost – ongoing right now. iii. IBHE-SAC Agenda 1. MAP Grants: asking for more money 2. Pay It Forward – Stafford loans on state level. 3. Shared governance – want to make it more uniform across universities. 4. Illinois ranks 25th for graduation in higher education, lower for underrepresented students. Not doing too well. Confident that the new governor will focus on higher education. Need a rep at SAC from Loyola. Would welcome someone joining our meetings. iv. Questions 1. Sen Torres: Where do you meet? 1. Sean: Hosted at various universities. Next one at ISU. 2. Sen Torossy: How often do you meet? 1. Sean: Tried to meet right before the board meeting itself. Next one at the end of this month and then in March 3. Sen Elhalawany: What kind of work do you bring at the table? 1. Sean: My second full year there. Sometimes, not many people show up and there’s less work to do. Depends on the leadership. Have really good leadership this year. Just getting started, getting to the meat of things for this session. Break it down by committee, reach consensus on agenda for the year and divvy up research. Goal is to put it in the form of a resolution so that SAC passes it legally and I present it at the board meeting.