<te Weekly Update for the Meeting held 10/27/2008
How can the Board of Trustees connect better with students?
– The board of trustees wants to meet with all kinds of students, how can they best reach out during their brief visits?
– Senate met with trustees last weekend and discussed possible creating a committee to help students connect with trustees.
– Do you have ideas for how the Trustees can connect with students?
– CONTACT: Chase Kimball ([email protected])
What are the new graduation requirements going to look like?
– The Education and Curriculum Committee is changing the graduation requirements for future classes.
Here are some of the changes being considered:
– A required First Year Seminar taken for credit.
– “Approved” Club Sports will be receive credit in the same way Varsity Sports do.
– New distro categories, most likely based on “skill sets.”
– At least 198 of 210 credits must be earned from Carleton courses.
– Writing Requirement, Speaking Requirement, Writing Portfolio remain.
– A new RAD replacement named the Global Citizenship requirement.
– CONTACT: Robert Orion Martin ([email protected]), Cat McMurtry ([email protected])
Griffin Williams ’12 and Jimmy Rothschild ’12 got enough money to buy the suit of armor!
CSA Senate meets every Monday at 7:00PM in Sayles 251, come join us!