As you might be able to tell, the VP Ops, Service Directors, and Head Managers were quite busy this summer, which meant that the Board had several long and productive meetings. If you’d like more details about any of these meetings, please let me know as our agendas and minutes for the open sessions are publicly available upon request.
I am also happy to report that for the first time in a while we have a full Board of Directors with three community members with various areas of expertise: Professor David McConomy (Accounting), Susan Goodyer (Human Resources), and Daniel Coderre (Commercial Law). With a full Board, and after seeing all of the work that has been done this summer, I am happy to report that the AMS Inc. is in a great financial and strategic position moving forward. The Board has full trust in the Executive, and the rest of the management team, and we therefore can’t wait to see all of the great things that they
accomplish this year.
Finally, we have 5 standing committees of the Board (Personnel, Finance and Audit, Permanent Staff, Long-Term Strategic Planning, and Governance) and have representatives at the Journal Board and the SLC Council. We are also currently discussing the need for any ad-hoc committees for the coming year. I will be reporting more about each of these committees at a later date.
This is all for now. Thank you for reading this report and do not hesitate to contact me at the information below, or in person, in case you have any questions.
Sincerely, Rico Garcia Chair
Board of Directors
Alma Mater Society of Queen’s University Inc. [email protected]
Undergraduate Student Trustee Report Andrew Aulthouse
September 12th, 2013
Dear Assembly,
I’m very excited to have started my term and to have the opportunity to work alongside all of you. Summer was not an overly busy time for the Board, as we were between our May and October meetings, but I will soon be preparing for my first Board meeting at the start of October. I spent time this summer meeting with members of the university administration and gaining a better
understanding of the people, policies, and issues at Queen’s. I also attended a meeting of the Audit and Risk Committee on August 13, and am looking forward to more Board work. If you have any questions about upcoming issues or my role on the Board of Trustees, please email me at
[email protected]! Andrew Aulthouse
Student Senate Caucus Chair Report to Assembly Isabelle Duchaine
September 12th, 2013
Holler fellow student-government enthusiasts!
How are you? I am good. How was your summer? Mine was swell. Now, as Captain Shang said in my second-favourite Disney movie, “Let’s get down to business.”1
The University Senate is one of three governing bodies of the University and deals primarily with the academic proceedings of the institution, handling everything from honourary degrees, academic planning to orientation review. Every Faculty has a number of elected members on Senate which is made up of 69 members (53 elected, of those 53, 15 are students).In addition, Senate is based upon a committee structure; the majority of the work is done in 1 of the 19 Senate Committees or their various sub-committees. Membership on committees are not limited to Senators, so ch-ch-check out if you can sit on a Committee! Sometimes there are even snacks (this is rare, do not get your hopes up).
As Student Senate Caucus Chair, I co-ordinate training, logistics, and support for student senators form all faculties and liaise with AMS Assembly and SGPS Council. SSC is having our training day this week, so Deputy SSCC Brunner and I have been busy prepping for this. Additionally, Senate is a bit early this year so by the time of this Assembly we should have a copy of the Senate Agenda. I put forward a question about deferred maintenance, so I’m looking forward to hearing about that – the University has over $250million of deferred maintenance, which harms both the academic environment and physical safety of our campus community. Aside from my interests in credit transfer, enrolment, online learning, academic integrity, and deferred maintenance, I’m looking forward to spending this year clarifying the relationships between Senators and their home-societies.
Additionally, the Faculty of Arts and Science is short one student senator, so next ASUS Assembly we’ll be nominating one lucky student to fill that spot until the October by-election. Huge shout-out to President Mason for being uber helpful in directing interested applicants my way!
I’m looking forward to a year of academic engagement, advocacy, team-building, and jokes about Senator Housing Allowances, so come say hi and check out Senate!
Student Senate Caucus Chair | Alma Mater Society |[email protected]
1 Email me with the name of my favourite Disney movies before Assembly and I’ll enter your name in a draw for some post- Assembly noms. Spoiler: noms will be QP breadsticks. All AMS members eligible, no purchase necessary.
University Rector Report to Assembly Nick Francis
April 4th, 2013
Incoming and returning members of Assembly,
Hope the summer months treated you well. It feels great to be back! Here are a few updates: