COMMITTEE: Student Scholarships, Fellowships, and
Financial Aid Committee
MEETING DATE: Monday Sept. 24th, 2007 11:00am
PERSON PRESIDING: Mark Taggart
REGULAR MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE: Ken MacLeod;
Anthony Overton; Hanna Jubran; Pramathanath
Sastry; Jill Matarelli
Carlson
EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE: Judi Bailey
ACTIONS OF MEETING
Agenda Item: Election of Officers
Discussion: Mark Taggart called the meeting
to order and oversaw the election of officers.
The previous Chair and Vice Chair had rotated off the committee and there
were two spots to fill and few experienced members who knew what was going on to fill the spots. The position of Chair was finally given to
Ken MacLeod (after some coaxing and reassuring from the rest of the committee J). Jill Matarelli
Carlson agreed to continue as Secretary and it was decided that due to the
large number of new members, that we would elect Yong Wang (even though he
could not in attend this meeting) as Vice Chair since he was on the committee
last year and had some experience.
Action Taken:
Officers were
nominated, seconded and voted into office.
Agenda Item: Committee Responsibilities
Discussion: Mark Taggart reminded the
committee about the responsibilities of the Student Scholarships, Fellowships,
and Financial Aid Committee, and recommended that we form a sub-committee to
check on the implementation of the online catalogue and the new Banner system
to make sure that everything related to this committee was transferred
correctly.
Action Taken:
The committee
will check on Banner as Mark Taggart suggested and of course continue our
participation in the Scholarship Weekend and the awarding of scholarships at
the end of the school year.
Agenda Item: Scholarship Weekend Update
Discussion: Judi Bailey gave us and update
on the changes being made to Scholarship Weekend to increase it’s
competitiveness with other programs. It
will be moved to February; Students will receive a one year $1000 scholarship
for attending and less smaller scholarships will be
awarded so the focus can be placed on scholarships that are close to a full
ride. This should up the status of the
scholarships taking them from Recruiting scholarships to Branding scholarships
and increasing ECU’s commitment to scholarship.
Action Taken:
We will be
inviting Professor Michael Bassman to attend a meeting to further discuss the
Scholarship Weekend with us.
Assigned
additional duties to:
Ken MacLeod will
contact members of the committee to see if a different meeting time on Mondays
will work better for everyone one the committee.
NEXT MEETING: October 22nd ,
2007 11:00am (Unless changed to fit more schedules.)
ITEMS TO BE DISCUSSED: The SSC
Committee’s agenda for the coming year.