Meeting Agenda
Old Business
- Picnic/Whale Watch (Marianne)
- Whale watch is all set, but 2 people cannot make it
- What to do about food/picnic?
- Do we pay for on-board food/drinks?
- Need to reschedule
- Picnic location: Bryant Park?
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- TODO [Mariannee]: reschedule whale-watch trip
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New Business
- On-campus flu shot clinics (Ge)
- Have been communicating with the student service team to provide Tech students on-campus flu vaccination clinic
- The reply was they need a few more days
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- TODO [Ge]: continue to follow up with Jackie, and update students
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- Business cards and headshots (Ge)
- Collect the preference on getting business cards and headshots
- Need to look into the cost: funded by PACT and possibly by Tech in some portion
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- TODO [Julia, Sharon]: start a survey
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- Noise-canceling headphones (Ge)
- Provide noise-canceling headphones for new students starting at Tech
- Survey on current situation and preference
- What is the standard for each department?
- Other equipment: monitors?
- Volunteers on pushing this forward?
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- TODO [Anthony, Yin]: figure out the requirements across departments
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- Hiring @ Tech (Emily)
- Fact-finding: How are PhD students involved with faculty hiring in each department who hires candidates to Tech?
- IS is known
- CS?
- Not involved
- You get invited to the student lunch if it’s in your area
- ORIE?
- ECE?
- Business?
- Goal is to set up a structured and PhD-student-facilitated process for incorporating PhD student feedback in faculty hiring decisions
- Fact-finding: How are PhD students involved with faculty hiring in each department who hires candidates to Tech?
