Opening:
The meeting of the BPKSA was called to order at 1:00pm by Jordan in the BPK Graduate Students Lounge.
In Attendance:
Jordan, Emily C, Emily P, Omid, Arash, Brian, Katie, Jaskarn, Crystal, Alam, Aaron, Ivy, Sonya, Ran, Erina
Open Issues:
1) Aaron’s BPK Flow Chart
-Aaron has created a flow chart involving all BPK courses and streams to map prerequisites
-Base flow chart busy and intimidating
-Improve by breaking up into each stream and/or year
-Based of Psychology course map
-BPK has a lot of course, which makes map complicated
-Checklist may be better
-Combine list with basic map?
2) Year End Party
-50 people attended, 53 tickets sold
-What worked:
-Location at DAC – main floor with view was nice
-Food was excellent
-Relaxed and fun, not focused on networking with professors à need more events like this
-To improve for next year:
-Probably would have had a better turnout if scheduled the week before (too close to finals)
-Would more people come if the party was after exams? Students from out of town will have already left
-Advertising – more classroom presentations needed
-Conflict with SFU Athletics event, scheduled on same day
-Connect people at different tables
-More interaction between undergrads, grads, and profs
-More time before food comes out
-Icebreaker game involving representatives from each table
-Games
-Unscramble profs names
-Trivia questions à more general Kin questions, less history
-Draw Tony playing his favourite sport
3) Summer Semester
-Who will be here to attend meetings: Arash, Emily C, Katie, Jaskarn, Crystal, Erina
-Who can help but will not be able to attend most meetings: Megan, Emily P, Ran, Omid
-Have food at first meeting of each semester to encourage people to come
-Create Facebook poll for new meeting time to reach people who do not see emails
-President, Vice President, Treasurer, Promotional Coordinator, External Relations Officer positions will be open
-Erina open to training new Kin Department Representative throughout the summer (position will be available in the Fall)
-Description of positions on BPKSA website
-Follow up with BPK 101 students and promote attending meetings
4) Meeting with Cady
-Set up meeting after exams
-Wanting to get to know executive members who will be here in the Fall to continue relationship
5) Thoughts for Next Year
-Make a calendar for the year with approximate time of each event
-Approximate budget for core events to see how much is left over for social events and informal study sessions
-Do we have the budget to book a room every other week as study space with snacks provided?
-Book room for meetings (AQ or TASC2 tutorial room) instead of using BPK Graduate Student Lounge
-Bring up BPK undergraduate student common room to department
Motions:
1) Jordan motioned to reimburse Megan $408.13 from core for pinnies purchased for Kin Cup. Omid seconded it. Motion was passed unanimously.
2) Ran motioned to reimburse Megan $201.43 from core for headphones purchased for prizes. Katie seconded it. Motion was passed unanimously.
3) Crystal motioned to reimburse Omid $30.44 from core for pizza purchased for March 23rd meeting. Jordan seconded it. Motion was passed unanimously.
4) Brian motioned to reimburse Arash $148.47 from core for prizes purchased for the Year End Party. Erina seconded it. Motion was passed unanimously.
5) Emily P motioned to reimburse the BPK Department $143.35 from core for table throw. Ran seconded it. Motion was passed unanimously.
Adjournment:
The meeting of the BPKSA was adjourned by Jordan at 2:00pm in the BPK Graduate Students Lounge. Date and time of the next meeting TBA.