PACT Meeting 2020-05-08

Meeting Notes

Pandemic

• Questions and concerns about summer and fall?  (Anthony)
  • What is the plan for when will Bloomberg open again as an office space?
  • How will first year students be welcomed to campus?
  • Will the campus schedule or reopening schedule for fall differ from Ithaca?
  • What form will fall semester take?
  • Will funding for PACT be impacted by reductions in discretionary spending?
  • TODO: Anthony to follow up with additional questions from PhDs.

Usual Updates

• Budget update (Travers)
  • Budget cleared for 2019-2020 academic year!
• GPSA application process update (Travers)
• PACT website, calendar + task-tracking tools (Lynne)
• Lounge purchases (Natalie)
• Funding process docs (Anthony)

New Business

• Summer schedule for PACT (Anthony)
  • TODO: Alane to set up a weekly Zoom TGIF over summer.