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These yo-yo temperatures.
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Ooh-ooh, March in Vermont and you go up and down.
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And it starts to flirt with sugaring season, right?
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All set?
Sure.
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All right, good afternoon
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and welcome to the March 2025 Staff Council monthly meeting.
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I'd like to call the meeting to order at,
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let's see what time it is here, 12:07.
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We scared Jen away from the minutes.
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Must have.
Must have.
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All right, I know today is a challenging day.
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So we have limited attendance for a variety of reasons;
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spring break, town meeting, lots of stuff going on
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on campus with different organizations
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and working groups and things like that.
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So I'd like to put out a motion
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to have the minutes from our February meeting approved.
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I make a motion.
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Sue, thank you and a second, please.
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I'll second.
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Okay, perfect. Any discussion?
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All those in favor of approving the minutes,
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please raise your hand.
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Any in opposition and any abstentions.
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The minutes have been approved for February Meeting.
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Thank you.
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I'd like to open this up to opportunity
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for noncouncil members to bring forward
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any questions, concerns or thoughts.
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Anyone have anything they'd like to bring forward?
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A lot going on out there in the world. (laughs)
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All right.
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Okay, hearing no such comments or remarks,
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we're gonna move on to have Erika Lala help discuss
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and review the Climate Survey.
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Thanks for being with us today.
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Thanks for having me.
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So I'm asking Carly to put something in the chat
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for those that aren't able to be here in person.
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And I'm passing around a flyer
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regarding the Campus Climate Survey.
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So for those of you who don't know me,
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my name is Erika Lala.
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I use she/her pronouns.
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I joined UVM for the first time in August of 2022.
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I was the Assistant Dean for Strategic Equity Initiatives
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in the College of Arts and Sciences.
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I currently serve, and have since August of 2024,
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the Senior Director for Intergroup Dialogue
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and Inclusive Excellence in the Office of the Vice Provost
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for Inclusive Excellence.
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And our office paired with Rich's office,
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the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment
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are tasked every three years with delivering,
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collecting and assessing Campus Climate Surveys.
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So the Campus Climate Survey in 2022
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had a 54% response rate among employees
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and a 32% response rate among students.
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And that's inclusive of graduate, undergraduate students
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as well as PACE students.
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So this year's response rates
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currently in the Campus Climate Survey,
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it's been open for three weeks,
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are 15% for employees and 5% for students.
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I'll let Rich be the expert in statistical significance
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and all of that kind of stuff,
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but I can say from the contrast
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between the 2022 response rates
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and the 2025 response rates,
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that 2025 so far is going much lower.
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I think that's as much as I will say in terms of analysis.
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But the goal for me being here
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is that we still have 2 1/2, three weeks
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to complete the Campus Climate Survey.
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So it's not a done deal.
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This is sort of our pitch across university groups
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to increase response rates to the Campus Climate Survey.
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The Campus Climate Survey,
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especially in the current national political climate,
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is a vital tool for us to be able to leverage data
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and research regarding people's experiences of belonging
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or lack thereof on this campus.
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So in this environment that we consider
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this a very privileged opportunity to explore
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these conversations, it's all the more critical
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that we get a statistically significant
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and, hopefully, comparable response rate
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to 2022's Campus Climate Survey.
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So everyone in this room and on this chat,
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including the graduate assistants that I see there,
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are eligible to respond to the Campus Climate Survey.
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It's open to everybody, that's students, staff and faculty.
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Each have their own pools of incentives
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and so the more we get the better
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in terms of response rates.
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And I'm really just here to advocate for folks
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to respond to the survey
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and to tell a friend to respond to the survey.
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It takes about 10 to 15 minutes
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and it's done online via a website
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that is linked to the flyers.
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So I did take the survey,
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it took about 15 minutes,
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but one thing that I found out
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is it asked for your birth date and your salary.
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But nowhere did it ask length of service.
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Like how long have you been working for UVM.
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And maybe it's scaring people away.
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Although, we felt like you could skip over
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your birth date if you wanted to
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and you didn't have to answer your salary
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if you didn't want to.
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But yeah, I found it interesting
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that it didn't even ask how long you've been working.
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No, that's really good feedback.
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Thinking about the anonymity of the survey,
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that's really important.
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Yes so, Rich, correct me if I'm wrong,
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a lot of the fields are optional and all will be anonymous.
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All the fields are anonymous.
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I mean, sorry, all the fields are optional.
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There is nothing mandatory so you can skip over
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anything you do not want to answer.
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Exactly why the question of how long you have worked at UVM
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is not asked is not something I'm aware of.
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We did the best we could to not change
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as much of the survey as possible
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because there was a lot of turmoil
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in the development of the survey originally.
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So the idea was to keep as little of it,
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change as little of it as possible
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since the last iteration three years ago.
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So honestly, we did not really think about
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adding a question of that sort,
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because the powers that be before Erika and I
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got involved in the survey
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decided three plus years ago not to ask that question.
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And unless we go back through documentation,
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I don't know why that decision was made.
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But that's certainly very valuable feedback
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and we will bring that to the powers that be now
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and say, hey, in the next iteration
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this is something we want to add in.
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In terms of anonymity,
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yes, the survey is 100% anonymous.
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We have absolutely no way of knowing
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who has responded or who is responding.
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No identifying information is collected whatsoever.
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Except I'm curious as to why ask somebody's birth date.
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I mean that would help identify you. (laughs)
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You know, we try to keep units as broad as possible
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to minimize the chance of being able to say,
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well, if someone says your birthdate is this
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and they're in this unit, then it must be this person.
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So we try to keep things as broad as possible
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to minimize chances of that.
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But you're not wrong that if someone answers
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a specific birthdate in a specific unit...
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Now, was the birthdate
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just a specific date or was it just a year?
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I assume it was just the year-
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Seems to be the date.
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I'm thinking the year might've been a better question.
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What's your birth year? But I can't remember exactly.
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I might be wrong.
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I thought it was year, but-
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It might be the year.
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I might be remembering that wrong.
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But even then, like if you're talking about
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the Provost Office and you say the year you were born
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and there's only one person in the Provost Office
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who's born in that year, yes,
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in that case, you could be identified.
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Now, we're not going to present the data in any way
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that would make people identifiable.
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We're not gonna say, well in this campus setting,
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this person who was born in this year answered this,
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hint, hint, nudge, nudge,
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I just didn't know (speaks faintly)
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how old you are bears on it.
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Yeah, so but that is a very valid point
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and that's something we can look
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to potentially change three years from now.
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Yes, I will say that OIRA is the steel trap
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for that information and keeping things anonymous.
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And all the more reason that a higher response rate
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is critical because the more incidences
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that OIRA in doing things little c, conservatively,
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withholds information because it would expose someone
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or compromise even the possibility of anonymity
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the less that we actually get to use and the more incidents,
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I mean the fewer responses
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the more incidents of that happening there are,
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because there would be fewer respondents in the pool.
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I have a question and a follow up.
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Yeah.
When you look back
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at the last survey at this point in time,
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were the response rates higher, lower-
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Much higher.
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At this point in time?
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Yeah.
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So the follow up to that is,
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I'm wondering one of two things.
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If we can improve response rate
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by highlighting the top three areas
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that benefit from this information
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so people can identify with this impact.
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'Cause just saying it impacts a lot of areas
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and decisions the University makes.
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Or if the response rate is low,
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these are the three areas that could see lack of funding,
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lack of resources or be compromised by that.
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Well, I would echo, Erika, you know echo
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or change whatever we're about to note.
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But we had just gotten out of a meeting
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with Dr. Amer Ahmed and he has noted on numerous fronts
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that completing this survey in this climate
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is the biggest thing that you can do
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to preserve higher education, as with think,
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at this time in this climate.
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And so there are of course,
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and, Erika, maybe you can speak in more specificity
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about the groups specifically that'll be affected.
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But as it relates to talking about climate on campus
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and preserving the work that Erika and I do,
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but as well as it's integrated
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through the majority of our institution.
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Being able to complete something like this
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and with the 15 minutes it does take you,
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it's the affirmation of the work that we do
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as justifiable as to learning, as justifiable
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and the protection of said concepts.
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So I'll just add that.
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Sweepingly, of course, it's difficult to justify
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and at this time in this moment if there's anything
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anybody could do is contribute to the survey.
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Well, one of my greatest concerns, though too,
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is that I think given the current climate,
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people are more reluctant to share information about self.
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I hear that and that's a climate piece,
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a culture piece of the University of Vermont
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I would articulate as a specific piece, right.
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But that also speaks to the understanding
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of how this kind of data's utilized
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and maybe that's a different question
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of where does this data go and how do we use it?
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That's a different kind of question, right.
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Sorry, Erika.
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So do you have specific suggestions
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on how we can energize the community,
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the campus to complete the survey?
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Are we gonna start giving prizes? (laughs)
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We already do.
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So the prizes are via a separate raffle.
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So keeping to the anonymity standards,
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at the end of each survey you're given a prompt
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that says thank you for completing the survey
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and sort of that separation of the survey with other links.
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And one of those links is to enter a raffle,
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because obviously with the raffle we need to know your name.
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But in order to do that, it needs to be a separate entity
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so that it is a separate ticket from the actual survey.
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So the prizes are, actually funny enough,
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the same as they were three years ago.
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So I thought that that was like, oh yeah, we got it
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we did it and now we don't have it.
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But we will get it.
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So yes, we do have the personal incentives,
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but as for the communal incentives,
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going back to what Carly said in supporting those
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that are already responding with,
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let's say, their concerns, their experiences,
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their dissatisfaction with the areas
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that the Campus Climate Survey address.
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So issues of belonging, discrimination, bias
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and things like that,
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that the value of everyone responding
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is that we can use and uplift that data.
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We can talk about it in percentages,
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discrepancies and all of that kind of stuff.
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So even if you haven't personally experienced it,
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your response to the survey gives the survey greater spread
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and statistical significance in actually speaking to it.
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So a compelling reason is that
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like even if your voice is different
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from the voice that you want to uplift,
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like if you don't necessarily have those experiences
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that you want to uplift yourself, just adding to the numbers
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and adding to the strength of the survey
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is one of the best things you can do.
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Does that help?
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Yep, definitely. Thank you.
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So to add to that,
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I don't know if Liv is in a position
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that she can add into this.
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But she and I have had multiple email conversations,
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hey Liv, about potentially having units
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offer things like coffee.
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Like if you hit a specific response rate
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you get free coffee.
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So Liv, I don't know if you wanna talk about
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what HR's doing in terms of that
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and then there was one or two other things
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I wanna add in after that.
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Sure. Yeah, can everyone hear me?
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Yes.
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Okay, great. Thanks.
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I have different headphones today
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so I didn't know if the mic was picking me up or not.
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Yeah, so I've been emailing with HR reps across campus
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and I share with them the response rates
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and I encourage them as an HR rep
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to speak with their leadership
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and if their unit reaches a certain percentage
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of a response rate based on the numbers
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that Richard's team is pulling,
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that they could give them a free coffee coupon
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to Hendrick's or a free ice cream coupon to the Dairy Bar.
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Specifically in HR and central HR,
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if we reach a certain response rate
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then we're gonna order pizza for the office for one day.
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And all of that is, there are no tax implications
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with any of those offerings because they're infrequent
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and there's no monetary value
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associated with any of the items.
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If anyone has any questions about that,
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you're more than welcome to reach out to me directly,
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but I've been sharing that info with the HR reps.
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But if you wanna bring that back to your teams
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or your senior leaders, I encourage you to do so.
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I know J. Dickinson in her unit is,
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potentially, gonna be doing a pizza party for people
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if they hit a specific response rate.
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Bill Falls in CAS has been sending out
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regular emails saying our response rate is this,
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we're trailing behind these other colleges by this much.
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We can't lose to them.
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We wanna beat them, so let's all respond so that way
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we're the highest response rate for all colleges.
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So kind of just making a competitive thing
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to see who can generate the highest response rate.
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If specific units want to do things like I think,
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Lucy, you said your office has taken a window or two lunch.
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So if you have people respond to the incentive drawing
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and units wanna reach out to me
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and say, well can you give me a list of everyone
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from my unit that filled out the incentive
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and we're gonna pick a certain,
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you know a winner from that list to give a mug
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or a lunch or whatever, to just reach on out.
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I'm happy to provide you the list of everyone
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from your unit who responded to the incentive survey.
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If people have already responded to the survey
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and did not enter the incentive drawing
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but they wanna enter the unit drawing for like a lunch
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or something, you could also just have them reach out to me
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and I'll be more than happy to add their name to that list.
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So be creative, be fun, be exciting.
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Whatever people can do to really increase the response rate
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that would be fantastic.
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I'm not believing this.
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Is there any sense, any use in asking why?
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Why people aren't filling it out?
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I mean that might not help for this year,
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but it's something like unwillingness or lack of time,
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you know something just to-
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Totally.
Get a better handle
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on the barriers.
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Totally. Yeah, for our office it was time.
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Just like, even though it's 10 to 15 minutes,
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just dedicating that 10 to 15 minutes.
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Which is why for our division,
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we're adding it to our divisional meeting
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where we can't require you to respond to the survey
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but we can dedicate the time and say use your laptop,
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whether you're doing the survey, we don't know,
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but this is the time to do it, right.
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Like that kind of thing.
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So yes, there is value.
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Whether you hesitate to read the survey or not survey.
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But yeah, I think that's a really valid point,
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giving people permission.
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Like it's one thing to ask and say please do this,
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but the dedicated time seems really important to me.
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And maybe messaging,
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if you haven't already done so supervisors,
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like we're really working hard to bump these numbers up,
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have Climate Survey time for those
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that haven't done it from 1:00 to 1:15 today
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or on Tuesdays for the next two weeks or something that...
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Because people are like, "Oh, I wanna do this.
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I've got this big stack over here."
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Some of those (indistinct) tasks.
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Yeah, giving them permission
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and saying, "You know what?
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I want you to do this right now
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if you haven't done it already."
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Yeah.
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Do you have any sense about your department
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and how that's going with the campus?
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I've-
I know
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you have a large group.
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I've asked everyone to fill it out and sent them the link.
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And I did the same too.
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Okay.
Did you ask the questions
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that you had at the Executive Board Meeting?
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About the birthdate?
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Yeah. Okay.
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I did.
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Wanted to make sure those got answered.
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Believe you remembered.
And they said
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it's optional.
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All the questions, the answers are optional.
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Yeah, okay.
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So, maybe just to bring you up to speed,
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we're at really, really low numbers.
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Like 15% compared to final response rate
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three years ago was over 50.
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So how do we go from 15 to over 50
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in 2 1/2, three weeks is really,
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I think, the big question here.
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'Cause once you fall below 50
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you lose a lot of legitimacy in the survey
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and the findings and just the overall perspective, right.
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Overall, like even if it's not statistical,
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I think the statistical minimum
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is probably closer to 30, but-
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Probably.
Yeah, think about that.
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But just hearing it culturally,
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over half of the people responded last time,
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that's a lot of humans.
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Um-hm and I think what Richard mentioned
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about the competitive spirit,
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if there's any way to energize that,
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that can get a lot of traction really quickly, right.
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'Cause people like to play
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or they like to be, you know, like-
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Oh, totally.
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I mean it doesn't surprise me
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that you mentioned J. Dickinson with the thing
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and Bill Falls, those are both CAS people.
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They're a very competitive bunch.
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Like, and it did work.
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Jay has the highest response rate of all.
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That division has the highest response rate of all campus.
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I'm seeing a comment in the chat
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that says I heard from some it's too long and too involved.
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And I'm wondering if you can speak to
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the nature of some of the prompts
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as like what is the justification
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for some of those prompts?
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Yeah, yeah.
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I mean a lot of them are connected to one another.
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So it's not one question,
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it's a series of questions related to belonging.
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And then, of course, those questions are both related
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to how you experience it and how you offer it
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and how you extend it to others.
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With the questions about our Common Ground,
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it's not just how you abide by them,
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it's how you experience them from other people.
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So in making those statements, like in the 2022 survey,
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there was a higher proportion of people
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who said that they abide by our Common Ground
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and they enact it and they live it out,
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but they don't experience it from other people
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and the numbers didn't match.
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So that there's like a difference
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between sort of self-assessment
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versus experience of other people
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and that talks to each other.
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That data talks to each other.
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So although yes, Rich and I,
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the Campus Climate Survey predates both of us,
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so we're not sort of the decision makers,
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the justification for keeping it that way
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is that we can continue having those data pieces
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talk to each other instead of just saying
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something to the effect of like 25% of people
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strongly disagree that they belong on this campus.
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So what does that actually say?
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Why is that? Like all that kind of stuff.
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So yeah, I totally hear you.
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It is a very long survey in terms of number of questions.
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That's an undeniable fact.
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The other piece I would add
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is data like this is utilized for grants.
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If you were trying to get a grant
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to justify campus culture in some way
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or create funding opportunities
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to justify a better climate for students,
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for staff or faculty,
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these are the kinds of datasets that are referenced
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and then those metrics are used later
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to justify the renewal of that grant.
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And so I think as it relates,
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and I know that might seem more faculty facing,
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but there's actually quite a bit of staff
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that are involved in those kinds of grants.
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So I'd give that as a specific example
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of how this directly affects just taking the 15 minutes.
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Well, I know we're bumping up against our time so-
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I have one quick question.
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Go ahead, yeah.
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I'm on the site looking,
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is there a QR code to that survey?
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Yeah, it's on the flyer in the Teams,
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but it's also on
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all of our print also.
Okay.
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'Cause I can do a slide for our college meeting.
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Oh, yes, and I can give you the PDF or this-
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That would great.
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As well.
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Yes, oh that would be so great. Thank you.
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Here I'll-
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If anyone needs any marketing materials,
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they could also just email me
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and I'm happy to forward you all-
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Okay, we'll do that. Will do.
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Is this up in the chat?
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Yep.
Yes.
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Okay.
And it's a jpeg in the chat
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so that you can paste it wherever it needs to be in an email
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or a PowerPoint slide or whatever.
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Let me know if the permissions
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are still being funky.
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So I guess I would just ask
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all of our Staff Council members
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to maybe get this out forward facing
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in front of your constituents, whether that's email
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00:24:36.270 --> 00:24:40.920
or if you have a board in your lunchroom
532
00:24:40.920 --> 00:24:43.140
or a lunch area, post this up.
533
00:24:43.140 --> 00:24:47.100
And I think word of mouth is always really nice.
534
00:24:47.100 --> 00:24:50.760
Like reference this, say, "Hey, have you done this?
535
00:24:50.760 --> 00:24:54.300
If not take care, now more than ever
536
00:24:54.300 --> 00:24:58.497
this is super important for so many reasons."
537
00:24:59.460 --> 00:25:02.220
And be very intentional about
538
00:25:02.220 --> 00:25:05.400
encouraging your constituents to complete the survey
539
00:25:05.400 --> 00:25:07.560
and let's get those numbers up.
540
00:25:07.560 --> 00:25:08.393
Thank you.
541
00:25:08.393 --> 00:25:09.226
Thank you.
Thank you
542
00:25:09.226 --> 00:25:10.230
so much for coming.
543
00:25:10.230 --> 00:25:13.583
I also added the meet and greet flyer
544
00:25:14.523 --> 00:25:15.690
into the chat.
545
00:25:15.690 --> 00:25:16.523
Thank you.
546
00:25:16.523 --> 00:25:19.420
And that one is for staff of color
547
00:25:20.370 --> 00:25:25.370
and welcome allies to the Vermont Professionals of Color.
548
00:25:26.448 --> 00:25:27.281
Okay.
549
00:25:27.281 --> 00:25:28.114
How's that?
550
00:25:33.480 --> 00:25:34.586
Thank you.
551
00:25:34.586 --> 00:25:35.761
Thank you.
552
00:25:35.761 --> 00:25:38.967
(both speaking faintly)
553
00:25:38.967 --> 00:25:42.360
All right, that takes us to the Standing Committee updates.
554
00:25:42.360 --> 00:25:44.580
So I'd like to welcome our Chairs
555
00:25:44.580 --> 00:25:47.613
and Co-Chairs to provide updates at this time please.
556
00:25:55.753 --> 00:25:58.197
Chelsea's ready.
Chelsea's ready?
557
00:25:58.197 --> 00:25:59.583
All right, Chelsea.
558
00:26:00.420 --> 00:26:01.743
Hello, everyone.
559
00:26:04.350 --> 00:26:09.350
Community engagement, I'm looking at the Staff Art Exhibit,
560
00:26:10.800 --> 00:26:15.600
pun intended, which will be open until March 17th.
561
00:26:15.600 --> 00:26:16.890
So if you haven't visited
562
00:26:16.890 --> 00:26:18.740
the fourth floor of the Davis Center,
563
00:26:19.680 --> 00:26:24.680
I believe it's the Fireplace Lounge, check it out.
564
00:26:24.720 --> 00:26:26.350
We have staff art up there
565
00:26:27.240 --> 00:26:30.060
and from what I heard I was not able to go
566
00:26:30.060 --> 00:26:32.280
but I heard that the opening, the reception,
567
00:26:32.280 --> 00:26:34.143
was a success and very nice.
568
00:26:36.840 --> 00:26:41.840
Moving over to some of our upcoming activities.
569
00:26:42.660 --> 00:26:45.540
Tomorrow will be our first Wednesday Walk.
570
00:26:45.540 --> 00:26:48.720
So we've shifted from Tuesdays to Wednesdays.
571
00:26:48.720 --> 00:26:51.630
Hopefully, that works for folks as well
572
00:26:51.630 --> 00:26:54.000
and we would love to see you.
573
00:26:54.000 --> 00:26:59.000
We depart 12:15 from the Howe Library steps.
574
00:26:59.850 --> 00:27:02.910
So get some fresh air.
575
00:27:02.910 --> 00:27:05.490
I'll have an umbrella if it's raining.
576
00:27:05.490 --> 00:27:07.050
Rain or shine.
Rain or shine.
577
00:27:07.050 --> 00:27:08.813
Getting away from the desks.
578
00:27:09.840 --> 00:27:13.440
And if there's anyone from the group
579
00:27:13.440 --> 00:27:15.960
who knows if we're doing,
580
00:27:15.960 --> 00:27:20.670
if we have future Book Club dates.
581
00:27:20.670 --> 00:27:23.520
I don't think we have a future Book Club date.
582
00:27:23.520 --> 00:27:27.000
But there are developments for future Book Club activities.
583
00:27:27.000 --> 00:27:28.860
We do. Do you want me to jump in?
584
00:27:28.860 --> 00:27:29.850
Yes, please take it away.
585
00:27:29.850 --> 00:27:33.960
Okay, so there are now two book clubs.
586
00:27:33.960 --> 00:27:37.833
The regular book club is meeting April 9th, I believe,
587
00:27:39.810 --> 00:27:42.780
reading "The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store" by James McBride.
588
00:27:42.780 --> 00:27:47.780
And then there's also the Fantasy Book Club meeting in May.
589
00:27:50.850 --> 00:27:55.850
But if Sam's here she can correct me or confirm that.
590
00:27:56.340 --> 00:28:01.170
And they're reading "The Priory of The Orange Tree"
591
00:28:01.170 --> 00:28:03.180
by Samantha Shannon, I think.
592
00:28:03.180 --> 00:28:05.610
So, yeah, those are upcoming.
593
00:28:05.610 --> 00:28:08.040
We've had good response so far
594
00:28:08.040 --> 00:28:10.923
from the main book club anyway, so.
595
00:28:12.960 --> 00:28:13.793
Thank you.
596
00:28:16.140 --> 00:28:16.973
Thank you.
597
00:28:21.115 --> 00:28:22.650
I can go for the Social Committee.
598
00:28:22.650 --> 00:28:23.700
Very short and sweet.
599
00:28:25.500 --> 00:28:29.024
We have Skate Night coming up Friday, March 28th,
600
00:28:29.024 --> 00:28:31.680
5:00 to 7:00 PM so be sure to join us.
601
00:28:31.680 --> 00:28:35.340
And then we're just waiting on some more information
602
00:28:35.340 --> 00:28:37.530
before proceeding with some other events
603
00:28:37.530 --> 00:28:39.570
like a Monsters game the summer.
604
00:28:39.570 --> 00:28:44.570
Looking into possible miniature golf and other events.
605
00:28:45.720 --> 00:28:48.780
So we're kind of in standby mode on that
606
00:28:48.780 --> 00:28:51.000
till we get more information.
607
00:28:51.000 --> 00:28:54.270
So one of the things that came up in a recent meeting
608
00:28:54.270 --> 00:28:58.440
was just kind of what can we do to uplift people's spirits?
609
00:28:58.440 --> 00:29:00.780
Wednesday Walks are important.
610
00:29:00.780 --> 00:29:05.780
Jen, I mean this would be an impressive feat to accomplish
611
00:29:07.740 --> 00:29:10.290
but we thought it would be super fun
612
00:29:10.290 --> 00:29:12.000
and maybe we have to wait a year
613
00:29:12.000 --> 00:29:15.933
but to host a Sugar on Snow event.
614
00:29:19.620 --> 00:29:24.620
Karen on the Social Committee has a maple sugaring business
615
00:29:24.630 --> 00:29:28.830
and we might be able to get like snow from Food Services
616
00:29:28.830 --> 00:29:30.150
like in little-
I think they've done that
617
00:29:30.150 --> 00:29:31.050
outside the bookstore,
618
00:29:31.050 --> 00:29:33.331
'cause I remember coming up to the bookstore one year
619
00:29:33.331 --> 00:29:35.100
and it was for students, but staff was welcome to do it.
620
00:29:35.100 --> 00:29:37.080
But they did have a spring maple sugaring
621
00:29:37.080 --> 00:29:38.910
where you just walked up and you got your-
622
00:29:38.910 --> 00:29:40.218
You got a little sugar on snow?
623
00:29:40.218 --> 00:29:41.335
You got a little sugar on snow
624
00:29:41.335 --> 00:29:43.410
with a little piece of donut or pickle or whatever.
625
00:29:43.410 --> 00:29:45.840
But they offered that already.
626
00:29:45.840 --> 00:29:48.870
Wow, do they do it every year?
627
00:29:48.870 --> 00:29:49.703
Well, they had it last year.
628
00:29:49.703 --> 00:29:52.230
I don't know who, was it Dining Services maybe?
629
00:29:52.230 --> 00:29:53.580
I don't know who organized it,
630
00:29:53.580 --> 00:29:55.260
but I'm thinking it's already offered.
631
00:29:55.260 --> 00:29:57.930
It's a matter of getting the word out about it
632
00:29:57.930 --> 00:30:00.180
but it didn't seem to be restricted to students,
633
00:30:00.180 --> 00:30:01.260
I don't think.
634
00:30:01.260 --> 00:30:03.420
There's a note in chat that says UVM Program Board
635
00:30:03.420 --> 00:30:05.400
hosts a Sugar on Snow event every year.
636
00:30:05.400 --> 00:30:06.233
Really?
637
00:30:10.140 --> 00:30:12.165
What is this Sugar on Snow?
638
00:30:12.165 --> 00:30:15.272
(others laughing)
639
00:30:15.272 --> 00:30:17.267
Typical advice why we did it.
640
00:30:18.540 --> 00:30:23.340
They get some snow and they pour hot maple syrup over it,
641
00:30:23.340 --> 00:30:25.583
it gets all taffy-
642
00:30:25.583 --> 00:30:26.460
And so it turns into-
643
00:30:26.460 --> 00:30:28.740
Set off the sweet with a sour pickle
644
00:30:28.740 --> 00:30:31.341
and maybe a plain donut on the side.
645
00:30:31.341 --> 00:30:33.883
Okay.
It's a very Vermont
646
00:30:33.883 --> 00:30:34.748
thing to do.
647
00:30:34.748 --> 00:30:36.332
Yeah, very Vermont.
648
00:30:36.332 --> 00:30:40.283
It will sell out, sell out totally.
649
00:30:40.283 --> 00:30:42.630
This is a picture of it.
650
00:30:42.630 --> 00:30:44.340
Okay.
So they just really
651
00:30:44.340 --> 00:30:47.010
just pour maple syrup on snow and it just makes,
652
00:30:47.010 --> 00:30:48.240
cheese would be good maybe with it.
653
00:30:48.240 --> 00:30:50.250
You can make some yourself in the backyard
654
00:30:50.250 --> 00:30:52.590
just to collect some fresh snow and then we pour-
655
00:30:52.590 --> 00:30:55.531
A little acid rain with your maple syrup.
656
00:30:55.531 --> 00:30:56.364
I got it,
657
00:30:56.364 --> 00:30:58.513
sort of like taffy-
Yeah, like taffy.
658
00:30:58.513 --> 00:31:00.371
(others chattering faintly)
659
00:31:00.371 --> 00:31:02.070
All right, thank you.
660
00:31:02.070 --> 00:31:03.450
In March, there's an open house-
661
00:31:03.450 --> 00:31:04.890
You telling me there's no acid rain?
662
00:31:04.890 --> 00:31:07.948
It's around most weekends, I think so.
663
00:31:07.948 --> 00:31:11.365
(all chattering faintly)
664
00:31:12.300 --> 00:31:13.620
Well, thank you.
665
00:31:13.620 --> 00:31:15.630
I think what we're trying to lean into
666
00:31:15.630 --> 00:31:16.710
with some of the meetings
667
00:31:16.710 --> 00:31:18.750
that we've been at with senior leadership
668
00:31:18.750 --> 00:31:21.330
and some of the governance meetings
669
00:31:21.330 --> 00:31:24.810
is finding ways to experience joy on campus
670
00:31:24.810 --> 00:31:26.910
and community with others.
671
00:31:26.910 --> 00:31:28.710
We're not gonna be able to change
672
00:31:28.710 --> 00:31:33.710
what's happening with the administration
673
00:31:33.960 --> 00:31:36.990
and the chaos that's being created.
674
00:31:36.990 --> 00:31:40.410
And there are people that are also
675
00:31:40.410 --> 00:31:44.130
completely aligned with those actions, right.
676
00:31:44.130 --> 00:31:45.630
So we have to remember
677
00:31:45.630 --> 00:31:48.630
that there's a broad representation of ideas,
678
00:31:48.630 --> 00:31:50.763
thoughts and feelings, emotions.
679
00:31:51.690 --> 00:31:53.460
And so there were a lot of conversations
680
00:31:53.460 --> 00:31:55.980
about what do we lean into
681
00:31:55.980 --> 00:32:00.843
and leaning into fun activities, playfulness.
682
00:32:02.670 --> 00:32:05.830
You know, food always brings community together
683
00:32:06.870 --> 00:32:08.490
and so maybe the real challenge
684
00:32:08.490 --> 00:32:11.580
is let's identify what already exists.
685
00:32:11.580 --> 00:32:13.050
So guess what?
686
00:32:13.050 --> 00:32:17.520
Sugar on Snow already exists and just kind of helping
687
00:32:17.520 --> 00:32:20.310
to hype that up and encourage people.
688
00:32:20.310 --> 00:32:23.640
'Cause I feel like it's very easy for people
689
00:32:23.640 --> 00:32:28.440
to kind of drift down and back and into the corner
690
00:32:28.440 --> 00:32:31.533
and that is not a great position for wellness.
691
00:32:33.540 --> 00:32:35.790
And then even on the different committees,
692
00:32:35.790 --> 00:32:40.790
thinking about activities that you can help to support that.
693
00:32:40.890 --> 00:32:44.640
Maybe new activities and especially, things we can do
694
00:32:44.640 --> 00:32:46.920
on campus during the lunch hour
695
00:32:46.920 --> 00:32:51.920
or that it's easy for people to step away
696
00:32:52.380 --> 00:32:54.520
and join in on something like that.
697
00:32:54.520 --> 00:32:55.950
So that's why we were also exploring
698
00:32:55.950 --> 00:32:58.410
getting a portable mini golf to come on campus.
699
00:32:58.410 --> 00:33:01.725
Maybe coinciding with the staff appreciation.
700
00:33:01.725 --> 00:33:05.770
And I did locate one with the help of Amanda
701
00:33:07.320 --> 00:33:09.210
that they're using for students in April.
702
00:33:09.210 --> 00:33:10.530
So we'd like to check that out first,
703
00:33:10.530 --> 00:33:11.780
see how it goes for them.
704
00:33:12.960 --> 00:33:15.000
It's like a simple nine, it's very simple.
705
00:33:15.000 --> 00:33:16.170
It's really inexpensive too.
706
00:33:16.170 --> 00:33:18.810
Oh!
And plus it would be a way
707
00:33:18.810 --> 00:33:19.890
to interact at like-
708
00:33:19.890 --> 00:33:21.943
I'm organizing that April event.
709
00:33:21.943 --> 00:33:23.451
Oh yeah.
So contact with the vendor
710
00:33:23.451 --> 00:33:24.640
but if they do have-
711
00:33:24.640 --> 00:33:26.233
Well, I know what the contact is.
712
00:33:26.233 --> 00:33:27.270
I actually know-
713
00:33:27.270 --> 00:33:29.250
Okay.
The person who does it.
714
00:33:29.250 --> 00:33:34.250
He's a young male, graduate of South Burlington High School
715
00:33:35.340 --> 00:33:39.887
who started this in 2020 and I have the information.
716
00:33:41.670 --> 00:33:43.290
Nine holes versus 18 holes.
717
00:33:43.290 --> 00:33:47.220
He comes and he sets it up and it's a two hour minimum.
718
00:33:47.220 --> 00:33:49.800
And I don't think any of these places need a lot of notice,
719
00:33:49.800 --> 00:33:52.020
but we're not sure when staff appreciation
720
00:33:52.020 --> 00:33:54.870
is exactly taking place this year.
721
00:33:54.870 --> 00:33:56.730
And Essex Mini Golf has said
722
00:33:56.730 --> 00:33:59.310
they can do something like a pass
723
00:33:59.310 --> 00:34:01.800
and probably work out one fee for children
724
00:34:01.800 --> 00:34:04.170
and adults where it could be available
725
00:34:04.170 --> 00:34:07.140
from July to September that people could go.
726
00:34:07.140 --> 00:34:08.180
Oh, that's great.
727
00:34:08.180 --> 00:34:09.750
So we could offer that.
728
00:34:09.750 --> 00:34:13.140
We could purchase say 30 passes to begin with
729
00:34:13.140 --> 00:34:15.690
and if we wanna purchase more we can purchase more,
730
00:34:16.950 --> 00:34:18.510
but they won't know more until April
731
00:34:18.510 --> 00:34:22.800
when their office opens and then we can get more details.
732
00:34:22.800 --> 00:34:25.020
He only needs like a week's notice to do that.
733
00:34:25.020 --> 00:34:27.210
So that's another thing that people can coordinate
734
00:34:27.210 --> 00:34:30.663
and do at a discount that we could offer.
735
00:34:30.663 --> 00:34:32.970
And then like I said, the Lake Monsters' game
736
00:34:32.970 --> 00:34:36.780
and then there'll be the SMOPs vacation
737
00:34:36.780 --> 00:34:40.560
and different offerings coming up and funfair tickets,
738
00:34:40.560 --> 00:34:42.660
different offerings coming up this summer.
739
00:34:43.770 --> 00:34:46.950
So yes, oh, here's the information on the,
740
00:34:46.950 --> 00:34:49.860
nine-hole rental, $125 per hour, two hour minimum.
741
00:34:49.860 --> 00:34:53.013
18-hole rental, $200 per hour, two hour minimum.
742
00:34:55.609 --> 00:34:59.820
And you're thinking multiple courses or one course or?
743
00:34:59.820 --> 00:35:00.653
Take a look at those.
744
00:35:00.653 --> 00:35:03.450
These are just very simple little setups.
745
00:35:03.450 --> 00:35:04.283
I mean it's-
746
00:35:04.283 --> 00:35:05.310
No, but it's fun, right?
747
00:35:05.310 --> 00:35:07.140
Yeah, it's just a good way to interact
748
00:35:07.140 --> 00:35:09.990
and something fun to do.
749
00:35:09.990 --> 00:35:11.660
It's very simplified, but...
750
00:35:12.765 --> 00:35:16.093
Yeah, no, this was exactly...
751
00:35:16.093 --> 00:35:18.030
And there's something set up at the University Mall too
752
00:35:18.030 --> 00:35:20.040
where I think South Burlington and the Rec Department
753
00:35:20.040 --> 00:35:23.844
is offering that this month be going.
754
00:35:23.844 --> 00:35:25.436
(others laughing)
755
00:35:25.436 --> 00:35:28.560
(members chattering faintly)
756
00:35:28.560 --> 00:35:31.050
If it's something that people could reasonably eat lunch
757
00:35:31.050 --> 00:35:33.573
and then play golf and back-
758
00:35:35.190 --> 00:35:36.780
I'll look at it from here.
759
00:35:36.780 --> 00:35:37.890
So cool.
760
00:35:37.890 --> 00:35:40.170
What if we had a mini golf summer?
761
00:35:40.170 --> 00:35:41.880
We had like a weekly mini golf
762
00:35:41.880 --> 00:35:43.590
and we could do like a round robin
763
00:35:43.590 --> 00:35:44.940
with different departments.
764
00:35:45.990 --> 00:35:47.940
(others laughing)
765
00:35:47.940 --> 00:35:51.090
Yeah, something that's recurring,
766
00:35:51.090 --> 00:35:52.443
things like that too.
767
00:35:54.930 --> 00:35:55.833
Okay, thank you.
768
00:36:00.390 --> 00:36:03.790
Who do we have left? CBB and PPD?
769
00:36:04.800 --> 00:36:06.930
I can go for PPD.
770
00:36:06.930 --> 00:36:08.080
All right, thank you.
771
00:36:10.560 --> 00:36:11.820
I'm gonna leave my camera off
772
00:36:11.820 --> 00:36:14.640
because I've been having some issues
773
00:36:14.640 --> 00:36:19.640
with sound when I talk with it on. (chuckles)
774
00:36:20.130 --> 00:36:24.510
So during our last meeting,
775
00:36:24.510 --> 00:36:29.340
oh well, we welcomed our new members, Carly and Doug.
776
00:36:29.340 --> 00:36:32.340
And we have our CatChat promotion
777
00:36:32.340 --> 00:36:36.330
or our CatChat coming up March 13th.
778
00:36:36.330 --> 00:36:37.590
And we're very excited.
779
00:36:37.590 --> 00:36:39.750
We have three speakers
780
00:36:39.750 --> 00:36:43.740
and so that will be in the Davis Center in Joe's.
781
00:36:43.740 --> 00:36:45.690
So everybody plan to come.
782
00:36:45.690 --> 00:36:50.690
It's from 12:15 to 1:00.
783
00:36:51.450 --> 00:36:55.140
HR update from Jack,
784
00:36:55.140 --> 00:36:58.560
the last Lunch and Learn that they had
785
00:36:58.560 --> 00:37:00.573
they had 30 people signed up,
786
00:37:02.730 --> 00:37:07.730
I thought he said about eight to 10 people showed up.
787
00:37:09.030 --> 00:37:10.530
I don't know if I heard him right,
788
00:37:10.530 --> 00:37:12.240
but somebody said they were there
789
00:37:12.240 --> 00:37:14.190
and there was more people than that.
790
00:37:14.190 --> 00:37:16.320
But he said that there were a lot of people
791
00:37:16.320 --> 00:37:17.943
that attended online.
792
00:37:20.130 --> 00:37:23.730
They're gonna have another one next month.
793
00:37:23.730 --> 00:37:28.560
And there's the HERS training coming up,
794
00:37:28.560 --> 00:37:31.053
which we're now promoting in the Staffline.
795
00:37:34.710 --> 00:37:38.010
We started talking about the physical work environment
796
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and office ergonomics assessment.
797
00:37:40.890 --> 00:37:43.440
And so we formed a subcommittee
798
00:37:43.440 --> 00:37:46.200
on that to talk more about that
799
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and talked about having people fill out a form.
800
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Is Amanda here?
801
00:37:50.730 --> 00:37:52.530
I don't know if Amanda's here.
802
00:37:52.530 --> 00:37:53.363
Does she wanna
803
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brief everybody on that?
I am.
804
00:37:57.780 --> 00:37:59.880
Again what Nichole had referenced,
805
00:37:59.880 --> 00:38:02.280
we discussed, (clears throat) excuse me,
806
00:38:02.280 --> 00:38:04.140
that ergonomic assessment and the other things
807
00:38:04.140 --> 00:38:07.140
that are available through Risk Management.
808
00:38:07.140 --> 00:38:10.020
And Alan actually shared some of those resources
809
00:38:10.020 --> 00:38:13.110
out through the Staffline today.
810
00:38:13.110 --> 00:38:15.330
And we had kind of gone back and forth
811
00:38:15.330 --> 00:38:18.990
on how heavily we really wanted to promote
812
00:38:18.990 --> 00:38:20.640
these ergonomic assessments.
813
00:38:20.640 --> 00:38:24.660
Because a lot of times it comes with it
814
00:38:24.660 --> 00:38:29.310
a financial investment and which isn't an obligation,
815
00:38:29.310 --> 00:38:31.500
but it's a suggestion.
816
00:38:31.500 --> 00:38:35.070
So we discussed that and how
817
00:38:35.070 --> 00:38:36.840
and sort of the implications of that.
818
00:38:36.840 --> 00:38:40.530
But also just looking at a lot of other opportunities
819
00:38:40.530 --> 00:38:45.100
and our next steps are to bring back to the committee
820
00:38:46.890 --> 00:38:48.990
questions that we will pose to you,
821
00:38:48.990 --> 00:38:52.980
the Staff Council at large to try to,
822
00:38:52.980 --> 00:38:54.960
again, kind of solicit some feedback
823
00:38:54.960 --> 00:38:57.330
and some input from your constituents
824
00:38:57.330 --> 00:38:59.910
about their work environments
825
00:38:59.910 --> 00:39:02.970
based on sort of different criteria.
826
00:39:02.970 --> 00:39:06.363
So more to come is the big message.
827
00:39:07.500 --> 00:39:08.820
Thanks, Amanda.
828
00:39:08.820 --> 00:39:09.653
Thank you.
829
00:39:10.860 --> 00:39:12.120
And then the only other thing
830
00:39:12.120 --> 00:39:17.120
that we talked about was the performance review process.
831
00:39:20.040 --> 00:39:24.570
We're planning to give feedback back to HR
832
00:39:24.570 --> 00:39:29.570
and so we were looking to collect information
833
00:39:29.730 --> 00:39:34.690
from all nonrepresented members
834
00:39:36.570 --> 00:39:40.110
so that we can share feedback to HR
835
00:39:40.110 --> 00:39:43.020
on the performance review process.
836
00:39:43.020 --> 00:39:47.820
So I know in our group we were looking to get feedback,
837
00:39:47.820 --> 00:39:50.280
but also to the greater Staff Council
838
00:39:50.280 --> 00:39:52.173
we wanted to get feedback as well.
839
00:39:55.290 --> 00:39:57.110
That was it for PPD.
840
00:40:01.020 --> 00:40:03.390
And one other thing to add for Social Committee
841
00:40:03.390 --> 00:40:07.530
is we normally would do a door decorating contest
842
00:40:07.530 --> 00:40:08.580
coming up for spring,
843
00:40:08.580 --> 00:40:11.130
but we wanted to do something different
844
00:40:11.130 --> 00:40:13.530
than a spring theme this year.
845
00:40:13.530 --> 00:40:16.680
We had thought about maybe a golf theme
846
00:40:16.680 --> 00:40:18.000
but then it was thrown out.
847
00:40:18.000 --> 00:40:20.640
Maybe graduation theme
848
00:40:20.640 --> 00:40:22.710
or welcome to new president theme.
849
00:40:22.710 --> 00:40:24.540
So that's another thing we're waiting on
850
00:40:24.540 --> 00:40:28.533
in terms of something different in terms of our theme.
851
00:40:30.120 --> 00:40:32.310
Last year, we only had like nine people participate.
852
00:40:32.310 --> 00:40:35.726
They got a basket of leftover-
853
00:40:35.726 --> 00:40:37.590
(laughing drowns out speaker).
854
00:40:37.590 --> 00:40:38.423
Which is fun.
855
00:40:38.423 --> 00:40:39.690
They've always got a lot of success
856
00:40:39.690 --> 00:40:41.100
at the hospital with those.
857
00:40:41.100 --> 00:40:43.170
So I wonder what they do differently.
858
00:40:43.170 --> 00:40:44.970
Again, I think it's an issue of time.
859
00:40:44.970 --> 00:40:46.320
Everybody is so strapped
860
00:40:46.320 --> 00:40:49.200
and departments don't have that help that they need.
861
00:40:49.200 --> 00:40:52.290
You can barely get through your work by the end of the day.
862
00:40:52.290 --> 00:40:54.903
So to add other stuff it's very hard.
863
00:40:56.670 --> 00:40:58.470
I was just gonna add, if there is,
864
00:40:58.470 --> 00:41:00.450
you know I love the golf thing.
865
00:41:00.450 --> 00:41:04.590
I always just am cognizant of accessibility.
866
00:41:04.590 --> 00:41:06.180
That's why we're trying to do mini golf
867
00:41:06.180 --> 00:41:07.200
and offer it at a discount.
868
00:41:07.200 --> 00:41:10.350
Oh yeah, I just mean like in terms of like walkability
869
00:41:10.350 --> 00:41:13.440
and like wheelchair users, those kinds of things.
870
00:41:13.440 --> 00:41:14.700
So yeah.
871
00:41:14.700 --> 00:41:16.080
You know, it's a small portion of campus
872
00:41:16.080 --> 00:41:18.000
but just making sure.
873
00:41:18.000 --> 00:41:21.600
Sure, and I think this little mini golf setup
874
00:41:21.600 --> 00:41:24.300
would probably be accessible for wheelchair people
875
00:41:24.300 --> 00:41:27.080
I would think or have them, I should mention if we do it,
876
00:41:27.080 --> 00:41:28.620
to have them spread it out enough
877
00:41:28.620 --> 00:41:31.194
that leaves room for wheelchairs to go in.
878
00:41:31.194 --> 00:41:32.027
Certainly, that's a great idea.
879
00:41:32.027 --> 00:41:32.860
Yeah.
880
00:41:41.220 --> 00:41:42.780
All right, last but not least,
881
00:41:42.780 --> 00:41:45.060
is Compensation, Benefits and Budget.
882
00:41:45.060 --> 00:41:48.153
Yep.
Can everybody
883
00:41:48.153 --> 00:41:49.590
hear me all right?
884
00:41:49.590 --> 00:41:50.910
Yes.
Yes.
885
00:41:50.910 --> 00:41:53.130
Awesome. Great, thanks.
886
00:41:53.130 --> 00:41:55.560
We've been working through our priority list
887
00:41:55.560 --> 00:42:00.360
and recently had our retiree constituents
888
00:42:00.360 --> 00:42:03.720
speak up about some concerns that they had
889
00:42:03.720 --> 00:42:06.510
and we've been going through that process
890
00:42:06.510 --> 00:42:09.330
with the two members on our committee
891
00:42:09.330 --> 00:42:12.213
who are part of that retiree constituency.
892
00:42:13.290 --> 00:42:16.080
Rich can also speak to some of the things,
893
00:42:16.080 --> 00:42:19.290
I believe he can speak to it I should say,
894
00:42:19.290 --> 00:42:21.810
with regards to UBAC.
895
00:42:21.810 --> 00:42:24.210
But we've got a little bit of a feedback loop there
896
00:42:24.210 --> 00:42:26.253
with the administration on that.
897
00:42:27.300 --> 00:42:29.640
Otherwise, it's just business as usual.
898
00:42:29.640 --> 00:42:31.500
Rich, is there anything you wanna chime in
899
00:42:31.500 --> 00:42:32.733
with UBAC at all?
900
00:42:33.780 --> 00:42:35.820
Sorry to put you on the spot.
901
00:42:35.820 --> 00:42:38.010
No, just as I was about to start eating my lunch,
902
00:42:38.010 --> 00:42:39.953
so perfect timing.
903
00:42:39.953 --> 00:42:42.473
(others laughing)
904
00:42:42.473 --> 00:42:46.380
I don't have huge amounts of updates from UBAC.
905
00:42:46.380 --> 00:42:49.050
The main discussion point is what's gonna be happening
906
00:42:49.050 --> 00:42:53.790
with retiree healthcare going into next year,
907
00:42:53.790 --> 00:42:57.000
'cause as I'm sure the majority of people know,
908
00:42:57.000 --> 00:43:00.900
our contract was canceled early last year
909
00:43:00.900 --> 00:43:04.890
so they needed to come up with a short-term solution
910
00:43:04.890 --> 00:43:08.490
and there are significant issues moving forward
911
00:43:08.490 --> 00:43:12.690
with BlueCross BlueShield for retiree healthcare.
912
00:43:12.690 --> 00:43:16.110
So that's probably not a long-term solution.
913
00:43:16.110 --> 00:43:17.820
So there are discussions going on
914
00:43:17.820 --> 00:43:21.630
in terms of putting out the new call for proposals
915
00:43:21.630 --> 00:43:23.610
or whatever the official term is
916
00:43:23.610 --> 00:43:26.640
to try to figure out what retiree healthcare's
917
00:43:26.640 --> 00:43:28.533
gonna look like starting next year.
918
00:43:29.580 --> 00:43:31.263
So it's a long process.
919
00:43:32.160 --> 00:43:33.960
If anyone has specific questions,
920
00:43:33.960 --> 00:43:37.860
I'm happy to go back through minutes from the discussions
921
00:43:37.860 --> 00:43:39.390
over the last couple of months
922
00:43:39.390 --> 00:43:41.940
and happy to fill you in on any questions you have.
923
00:43:44.442 --> 00:43:45.840
Awesome.
Rich, can you just speak to
924
00:43:45.840 --> 00:43:48.300
exactly what UBAC is, what that stands for
925
00:43:48.300 --> 00:43:51.390
and what that group does for new people here
926
00:43:51.390 --> 00:43:53.025
and probably for a lot of people here
927
00:43:53.025 --> 00:43:54.403
that don't know what it is.
928
00:43:54.403 --> 00:43:57.960
Sure, UBAC is the University Benefits Advisory Committee.
929
00:43:57.960 --> 00:44:00.570
So this is the group that gets together
930
00:44:00.570 --> 00:44:05.570
that discuss all benefits related issues to come up with
931
00:44:06.540 --> 00:44:10.590
recommendations to present to senior leadership.
932
00:44:10.590 --> 00:44:13.350
So it is an advisory council,
933
00:44:13.350 --> 00:44:15.120
but I have found the discussions
934
00:44:15.120 --> 00:44:18.273
to be really fruitful and beneficial.
935
00:44:19.320 --> 00:44:23.100
Caitlyn Sisler sits on the committee from HR
936
00:44:23.100 --> 00:44:25.830
and she's been extraordinarily open
937
00:44:25.830 --> 00:44:28.650
and forthcoming with tons of information.
938
00:44:28.650 --> 00:44:32.940
So it really goes to show you that having people
939
00:44:32.940 --> 00:44:35.370
serving from all the different campus constituencies
940
00:44:35.370 --> 00:44:37.500
coming together to discuss really important issues,
941
00:44:37.500 --> 00:44:38.610
really does work.
942
00:44:38.610 --> 00:44:40.743
It's been a fantastic experience.
943
00:44:41.670 --> 00:44:43.680
I really feel that the administration
944
00:44:43.680 --> 00:44:48.120
has taken the advice from the committee seriously.
945
00:44:48.120 --> 00:44:50.910
So it's not just one of those fake advisory councils
946
00:44:50.910 --> 00:44:52.080
where people say, "Oh well,
947
00:44:52.080 --> 00:44:54.630
we claim we got people's feedback."
948
00:44:54.630 --> 00:44:57.300
They're actually interested in people's feedback
949
00:44:57.300 --> 00:45:00.060
and presenting that to the administration
950
00:45:00.060 --> 00:45:01.360
and having them follow it.
951
00:45:02.315 --> 00:45:03.148
So it's been a great experience.
952
00:45:03.148 --> 00:45:06.150
One of the pain points has been
953
00:45:06.150 --> 00:45:10.530
retired staff having representation on UBAC.
954
00:45:10.530 --> 00:45:12.180
That's something that has come up
955
00:45:12.180 --> 00:45:16.320
in CCB a lot over this academic year.
956
00:45:16.320 --> 00:45:19.170
Retired faculty have several members
957
00:45:19.170 --> 00:45:20.640
who sit on the committee,
958
00:45:20.640 --> 00:45:25.640
but there is no official representative from retired staff.
959
00:45:25.770 --> 00:45:29.850
So I know that is something that retired staff are pursuing.
960
00:45:29.850 --> 00:45:32.160
I think the reason for that has been
961
00:45:32.160 --> 00:45:33.660
that there's been no official
962
00:45:33.660 --> 00:45:37.500
retired staff organizational body
963
00:45:37.500 --> 00:45:41.040
where they can vote to have someone represent them
964
00:45:41.040 --> 00:45:43.590
and then have that representative come back
965
00:45:43.590 --> 00:45:45.780
and present information to them.
966
00:45:45.780 --> 00:45:47.220
So I think there are some
967
00:45:47.220 --> 00:45:50.190
initiatives underway to rectify that.
968
00:45:50.190 --> 00:45:52.590
I don't know what the current status of that is.
969
00:45:57.540 --> 00:46:02.540
But if there's additional questions, please let me know.
970
00:46:02.670 --> 00:46:05.580
Obviously, last year healthcare significant increase,
971
00:46:05.580 --> 00:46:09.240
multiple successive years of significant increases.
972
00:46:09.240 --> 00:46:12.570
So they came up with the four options
973
00:46:12.570 --> 00:46:15.120
as opposed to just having a singular option.
974
00:46:15.120 --> 00:46:17.370
Those four options were only available
975
00:46:17.370 --> 00:46:21.303
to nonrepresentative staff for this year.
976
00:46:22.230 --> 00:46:24.090
So they're looking to potentially
977
00:46:24.090 --> 00:46:26.820
come to agreement with unions on campus in order
978
00:46:26.820 --> 00:46:30.240
to have those four options available to everyone
979
00:46:30.240 --> 00:46:33.093
and not just nonrepresentative staff.
980
00:46:37.410 --> 00:46:38.243
Thank you.
981
00:46:39.667 --> 00:46:42.810
It's a very tricky road to navigate
982
00:46:42.810 --> 00:46:46.020
and I don't see that getting any easier
983
00:46:46.020 --> 00:46:48.330
in the short term for sure.
984
00:46:48.330 --> 00:46:53.190
So I'm very grateful to hear that the feedback is welcomed
985
00:46:53.190 --> 00:46:56.370
and taken into consideration.
986
00:46:56.370 --> 00:46:57.513
That's great news.
987
00:46:58.380 --> 00:47:01.680
Yeah, I've served on many committees
988
00:47:01.680 --> 00:47:04.560
prior to my time to coming UVM, some of them fruitful,
989
00:47:04.560 --> 00:47:06.840
some of them just kind of fake committees.
990
00:47:06.840 --> 00:47:09.390
So coming from experience, I feel like this committee
991
00:47:09.390 --> 00:47:12.780
is actually a very good use of my time,
992
00:47:12.780 --> 00:47:14.100
good use of time in general
993
00:47:14.100 --> 00:47:16.440
and actually makes a difference.
994
00:47:16.440 --> 00:47:18.630
Wow, that's great.
995
00:47:18.630 --> 00:47:23.630
I'll use that as my lead off for the Officer's Report.
996
00:47:24.030 --> 00:47:29.030
And that theme continues as the University
997
00:47:30.450 --> 00:47:35.370
seeks to address some of the changes
998
00:47:35.370 --> 00:47:37.590
that are happening or may happen.
999
00:47:37.590 --> 00:47:39.870
So we talked a little bit in the Executive Committee
1000
00:47:39.870 --> 00:47:41.880
that there's a lot of noise
1001
00:47:41.880 --> 00:47:44.253
coming out of the current administration,
1002
00:47:45.300 --> 00:47:47.340
but that doesn't necessarily mean
1003
00:47:47.340 --> 00:47:49.920
that those actions are taking place.
1004
00:47:49.920 --> 00:47:52.350
So some of this has to be processed
1005
00:47:52.350 --> 00:47:56.520
through the legal system to actually become official.
1006
00:47:56.520 --> 00:47:58.950
So it's really important that staff, students
1007
00:47:58.950 --> 00:48:03.270
and faculty understand that, yes, you may be hearing this,
1008
00:48:03.270 --> 00:48:06.600
but the reality of that actually happening
1009
00:48:06.600 --> 00:48:08.520
may or may not happen.
1010
00:48:08.520 --> 00:48:13.520
And the second piece of that is that the community of UVM
1011
00:48:13.590 --> 00:48:17.040
is working with many other academic institutions
1012
00:48:17.040 --> 00:48:22.040
to ensure that the collaboration of those voices is used.
1013
00:48:23.160 --> 00:48:28.160
And I think to-date we're a part of six lawsuits
1014
00:48:29.070 --> 00:48:31.530
and that's expected to increase.
1015
00:48:31.530 --> 00:48:33.303
And just as a point of contrast,
1016
00:48:36.000 --> 00:48:40.620
years ago during President Trump's first administration,
1017
00:48:40.620 --> 00:48:42.690
the University was involved in, what was it?
1018
00:48:42.690 --> 00:48:46.857
Over, do you remember that number? Was it over?
1019
00:48:46.857 --> 00:48:49.710
Oh, I just had it on the tip of my tongue.
1020
00:48:49.710 --> 00:48:51.000
I think it was in the 50s.
1021
00:48:51.000 --> 00:48:54.480
So it's relatively early stages.
1022
00:48:54.480 --> 00:48:56.370
But what I really wanna draw into
1023
00:48:56.370 --> 00:48:59.700
is that with all of this activity,
1024
00:48:59.700 --> 00:49:01.290
senior leadership are forming
1025
00:49:01.290 --> 00:49:03.660
different working groups across campus
1026
00:49:03.660 --> 00:49:08.557
and they have already reached out to me for nominees,
1027
00:49:13.140 --> 00:49:14.520
I guess you can call it.
1028
00:49:14.520 --> 00:49:18.720
Who would we like to nominate for staff?
1029
00:49:18.720 --> 00:49:21.960
We've been invited to nominate staff members,
1030
00:49:21.960 --> 00:49:25.710
Staff Council members to be a part of these groups
1031
00:49:25.710 --> 00:49:27.903
and I think we'll see more of that.
1032
00:49:29.820 --> 00:49:33.870
And that's really, really validating to have them come to us
1033
00:49:33.870 --> 00:49:35.250
and say, we want your voice.
1034
00:49:35.250 --> 00:49:37.743
We want you to be a part of this.
1035
00:49:39.660 --> 00:49:44.550
And I think that is gonna ensure that ideas
1036
00:49:44.550 --> 00:49:46.770
and thoughts and concerns from across campus
1037
00:49:46.770 --> 00:49:48.270
are gonna be brought forward.
1038
00:49:48.270 --> 00:49:50.610
So hopefully, mirroring the success
1039
00:49:50.610 --> 00:49:52.593
that Richard experiences.
1040
00:49:53.790 --> 00:49:54.780
So that really covers
1041
00:49:54.780 --> 00:49:58.203
the bulk of our conversation with Jonathan.
1042
00:50:00.990 --> 00:50:03.870
This also might seem like kind of a quiet time
1043
00:50:03.870 --> 00:50:05.760
in the presidential search process.
1044
00:50:05.760 --> 00:50:07.800
So just a reminder that,
1045
00:50:07.800 --> 00:50:11.340
that process is broken up into different sections.
1046
00:50:11.340 --> 00:50:15.360
The final section resides with the Board of Trustees
1047
00:50:15.360 --> 00:50:17.940
and they take finalists
1048
00:50:17.940 --> 00:50:22.593
and interview them and drill down that list.
1049
00:50:24.330 --> 00:50:26.763
And, hold on just a second.
1050
00:50:27.602 --> 00:50:30.935
(Alan speaking faintly)
1051
00:50:32.130 --> 00:50:37.110
Okay, so email from Jonathan as we're speaking about him,
1052
00:50:37.110 --> 00:50:39.270
his ears must be ringing.
1053
00:50:39.270 --> 00:50:42.300
Please pass along that we can expect an update
1054
00:50:42.300 --> 00:50:44.760
on the presidential search within the week.
1055
00:50:44.760 --> 00:50:47.520
I think the Board of Trustees might be meeting today.
1056
00:50:47.520 --> 00:50:48.470
They are.
1057
00:50:49.740 --> 00:50:52.530
And that he also is supporting
1058
00:50:52.530 --> 00:50:55.473
and encouraging everyone to complete the campus survey.
1059
00:50:56.430 --> 00:51:00.393
Okay. So he stands behind all of us with that.
1060
00:51:03.600 --> 00:51:08.460
So the timeline I think is moving forward as planned
1061
00:51:08.460 --> 00:51:13.200
and we will wait to see what the Board
1062
00:51:13.200 --> 00:51:14.760
has to share with us.
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00:51:14.760 --> 00:51:19.760
On that front, just a reminder that the current process
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00:51:20.880 --> 00:51:25.200
is for a single finalist to come on campus.
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00:51:25.200 --> 00:51:27.900
That doesn't mean that the finalists
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00:51:27.900 --> 00:51:32.520
aren't all interviewed very carefully and diligently.
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00:51:32.520 --> 00:51:34.500
That's more of a culture issue
1068
00:51:34.500 --> 00:51:38.610
where it's protecting the applicant who,
1069
00:51:38.610 --> 00:51:40.950
you know if we would bring multiple people
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00:51:40.950 --> 00:51:44.400
they might be at risk for their job
1071
00:51:44.400 --> 00:51:46.980
since they're applying for the president's position.
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00:51:46.980 --> 00:51:51.120
So it's a difficult landscape to navigate
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00:51:51.120 --> 00:51:52.440
but that's the current process
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00:51:52.440 --> 00:51:54.000
and we see that across the country
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00:51:54.000 --> 00:51:56.550
and other presidential searches.
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00:51:56.550 --> 00:51:59.310
The Board will interview all finalists
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00:51:59.310 --> 00:52:03.540
and then bring a single finalist to campus
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00:52:03.540 --> 00:52:06.423
and more to come on that according to Jonathan.
1079
00:52:09.570 --> 00:52:12.870
Let's see, I think a lot of those conversations
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00:52:12.870 --> 00:52:15.270
were mirrored with HR.
1081
00:52:15.270 --> 00:52:18.510
Again, I think Carly brought up the fact
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00:52:18.510 --> 00:52:21.660
that we do have a lot of staff on research grants
1083
00:52:21.660 --> 00:52:24.390
and so there could be a lot of tension
1084
00:52:24.390 --> 00:52:29.390
and anxiety about my job and those research dollars.
1085
00:52:30.030 --> 00:52:32.880
So I think what we need to focus on
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00:52:32.880 --> 00:52:37.880
is we have earned R1 status that is very prestigious.
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00:52:38.220 --> 00:52:39.750
We wanna encourage everyone
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00:52:39.750 --> 00:52:44.133
to keep doing the work to maintain R1 status.
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00:52:45.435 --> 00:52:46.620
A little nugget that I thought
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00:52:46.620 --> 00:52:50.730
was really helpful for me to understand.
1091
00:52:50.730 --> 00:52:52.483
So two things about R1.
1092
00:52:53.630 --> 00:52:56.820
It is something that people across the country
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00:52:56.820 --> 00:52:58.020
can identify with.
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00:52:58.020 --> 00:53:01.500
So if you're looking to build your populations
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00:53:01.500 --> 00:53:04.950
from California and Arizona and Florida,
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00:53:04.950 --> 00:53:09.540
having that R1 status gives them something to say,
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00:53:09.540 --> 00:53:14.343
okay, I'm research-oriented, UVM checks that box for me.
1098
00:53:16.367 --> 00:53:17.200
And of course,
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00:53:17.200 --> 00:53:20.343
out-of-staters are gonna pay those higher tuition rates.
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00:53:21.180 --> 00:53:24.150
But perhaps the most surprising piece of information for me
1101
00:53:24.150 --> 00:53:28.140
was that a R1 status, for us,
1102
00:53:28.140 --> 00:53:32.040
the challenge was not in the number of research projects
1103
00:53:32.040 --> 00:53:34.500
but in the number of graduate students
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00:53:34.500 --> 00:53:36.120
that we have on campus.
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00:53:36.120 --> 00:53:39.390
So we are looking to build that population,
1106
00:53:39.390 --> 00:53:40.893
that's very intentional.
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00:53:41.970 --> 00:53:44.040
And just yesterday, Jen,
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00:53:44.040 --> 00:53:46.270
Nick brought around a potential student
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00:53:47.970 --> 00:53:50.640
that's considering the grad program here.
1110
00:53:50.640 --> 00:53:52.710
So if you have anybody that you know
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00:53:52.710 --> 00:53:55.380
that's interested in graduate education
1112
00:53:55.380 --> 00:53:59.310
and it kind of aligns with what UVM is doing.
1113
00:53:59.310 --> 00:54:03.687
One of the graduate students in my officer department,
1114
00:54:05.280 --> 00:54:08.160
I guess you could say he's really in Jen's department,
1115
00:54:08.160 --> 00:54:09.900
He was recently at a conference
1116
00:54:09.900 --> 00:54:12.300
and what he said is that his experience
1117
00:54:12.300 --> 00:54:15.810
at UVM is very well-rounded.
1118
00:54:15.810 --> 00:54:19.470
And when he was talking to other people at the conference,
1119
00:54:19.470 --> 00:54:22.230
there were students that were working on a project
1120
00:54:22.230 --> 00:54:26.370
but it was I work on part A, I work on part B
1121
00:54:26.370 --> 00:54:28.530
and he could talk about all the parts
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00:54:28.530 --> 00:54:31.893
and he felt really empowered by that experience.
1123
00:54:34.548 --> 00:54:37.140
So building the graduate student population
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00:54:37.140 --> 00:54:42.140
is the part of R1 that is important, most important to UVM.
1125
00:54:43.557 --> 00:54:46.500
So you said graduate students on campus.
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00:54:46.500 --> 00:54:47.730
did you mean that literally?
1127
00:54:47.730 --> 00:54:52.290
Are they looking to build in-person graduate programs
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00:54:52.290 --> 00:54:55.140
or online or both?
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00:54:55.140 --> 00:54:55.973
Do you know?
1130
00:54:57.300 --> 00:54:58.980
Yeah-
Although, literally, then.
1131
00:54:58.980 --> 00:55:00.640
Yeah, so you know we have PACE, right?
1132
00:55:00.640 --> 00:55:01.473
Uh-huh.
And PACE
1133
00:55:01.473 --> 00:55:04.020
is a lot of the online Continuing Ed.
1134
00:55:04.020 --> 00:55:04.890
Yeah.
And that's a different
1135
00:55:04.890 --> 00:55:06.270
kind of framing like grad school R1-
1136
00:55:06.270 --> 00:55:08.375
Right, (indistinct) work.
1137
00:55:08.375 --> 00:55:09.930
So my understanding is that they're intending
1138
00:55:09.930 --> 00:55:12.840
to bring graduate students to campus
1139
00:55:12.840 --> 00:55:15.270
and by consequence, there'll be more staff positions
1140
00:55:15.270 --> 00:55:16.680
to support those grads.
1141
00:55:16.680 --> 00:55:21.030
So it would be a bolstering of the university community,
1142
00:55:21.030 --> 00:55:23.220
the hiring and retention practices.
1143
00:55:23.220 --> 00:55:24.690
But it also makes us
1144
00:55:24.690 --> 00:55:28.560
a really wonderful location to be doing research.
1145
00:55:28.560 --> 00:55:31.470
To be having, hopefully, new grants
1146
00:55:31.470 --> 00:55:33.600
and new opportunities for grad work
1147
00:55:33.600 --> 00:55:36.630
and then that'll attract a really amazing faculty.
1148
00:55:36.630 --> 00:55:38.700
It is the consequences of the ripples.
1149
00:55:38.700 --> 00:55:40.250
So it's my understanding it's both.
1150
00:55:40.250 --> 00:55:43.200
Okay.
But certainly,
1151
00:55:43.200 --> 00:55:47.220
increasing graduate students will bring more dollars
1152
00:55:47.220 --> 00:55:48.867
and more jobs to campus.
1153
00:55:50.862 --> 00:55:52.555
Okay, thank you.
1154
00:55:52.555 --> 00:55:56.310
I can offer 2 cents here too from Enrollment Management.
1155
00:55:56.310 --> 00:55:58.080
One of the big shifts to make this happen
1156
00:55:58.080 --> 00:56:00.870
to bring more students on campus, graduate students,
1157
00:56:00.870 --> 00:56:05.430
is that Jay Jacobs no longer is overseeing
1158
00:56:05.430 --> 00:56:06.990
just undergraduate admissions.
1159
00:56:06.990 --> 00:56:07.950
But now it's been combined,
1160
00:56:07.950 --> 00:56:10.350
it's undergraduate and graduate admissions.
1161
00:56:10.350 --> 00:56:13.830
So now our teams are all working together to focus on that
1162
00:56:13.830 --> 00:56:16.380
and try and have consistency
1163
00:56:16.380 --> 00:56:19.590
and marketing for all populations.
1164
00:56:19.590 --> 00:56:22.230
And there are just so many different graduate programs
1165
00:56:22.230 --> 00:56:23.680
that they're trying to create
1166
00:56:24.960 --> 00:56:27.720
better streams of communication and marketing tools
1167
00:56:27.720 --> 00:56:30.240
to let students know about all these different programs.
1168
00:56:30.240 --> 00:56:32.220
And it's so complex 'cause each program
1169
00:56:32.220 --> 00:56:34.890
has its different requirements and admissions and whatnot.
1170
00:56:34.890 --> 00:56:37.110
So they're trying to streamline and work all of that,
1171
00:56:37.110 --> 00:56:40.176
all in an effort to get more graduate students to campus.
1172
00:56:40.176 --> 00:56:45.176
Thank you.
1173
00:56:51.845 --> 00:56:52.845
Thank you.
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00:56:58.920 --> 00:57:01.443
I met with STRATCOM last week.
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00:57:02.580 --> 00:57:04.380
The other part I would say
1176
00:57:04.380 --> 00:57:07.200
about some of these working groups and governance groups
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00:57:07.200 --> 00:57:10.893
is a real concern around communication,
1178
00:57:11.893 --> 00:57:15.030
sounds like a recurring theme because it is,
1179
00:57:15.030 --> 00:57:16.080
for several reasons.
1180
00:57:16.080 --> 00:57:18.240
One, we're challenged with so many
1181
00:57:18.240 --> 00:57:20.520
different mechanisms of communication
1182
00:57:20.520 --> 00:57:22.740
that people feel really overburdened,
1183
00:57:22.740 --> 00:57:25.683
like email, texting, voicemail.
1184
00:57:26.700 --> 00:57:28.440
And so it becomes harder and harder
1185
00:57:28.440 --> 00:57:30.543
to get that singular messaging.
1186
00:57:31.560 --> 00:57:36.560
One of the things that was pretty profound was talking about
1187
00:57:36.780 --> 00:57:40.080
different groups on campus and accessibility.
1188
00:57:40.080 --> 00:57:42.720
So we have entire populations on campus
1189
00:57:42.720 --> 00:57:45.360
that don't use a laptop for their jobs.
1190
00:57:45.360 --> 00:57:47.160
So you're talking about facilities
1191
00:57:47.160 --> 00:57:51.543
or maintenance, custodial.
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00:57:53.640 --> 00:57:56.460
And so a lot of the concern is if we're putting
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00:57:56.460 --> 00:57:58.950
a lot of messaging out there that's via email
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00:57:58.950 --> 00:58:02.400
or even on the webpage that this is not necessarily
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00:58:02.400 --> 00:58:04.740
gonna hit home with them.
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00:58:04.740 --> 00:58:08.880
There are some additional efforts being put into in-person,
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00:58:08.880 --> 00:58:11.223
like they have more regular meetings.
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00:58:12.180 --> 00:58:15.120
Also a lot of concern about language barriers
1199
00:58:15.120 --> 00:58:17.460
and then an additional concern
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00:58:17.460 --> 00:58:21.483
about potential visits from immigration on campus.
1201
00:58:23.640 --> 00:58:27.960
And what I'd like to make sure everyone knows,
1202
00:58:27.960 --> 00:58:32.340
because I myself did not, this has been longstanding policy
1203
00:58:32.340 --> 00:58:35.490
that if you are approached by an officer
1204
00:58:35.490 --> 00:58:40.490
or an immigration officer, the campus supports
1205
00:58:41.340 --> 00:58:45.900
having a person there with you to go through the process.
1206
00:58:45.900 --> 00:58:49.440
So you can contact or they can contact
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00:58:49.440 --> 00:58:51.100
the Office of General Counsel
1208
00:58:52.590 --> 00:58:54.420
or just even campus police.
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00:58:54.420 --> 00:58:57.300
They can get somebody there like you are not alone.
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00:58:57.300 --> 00:59:00.003
You do not have to go through this by yourself.
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00:59:00.840 --> 00:59:02.730
And certainly, when we talk about people
1212
00:59:02.730 --> 00:59:06.120
who might have language barriers, it's really important.
1213
00:59:06.120 --> 00:59:07.860
So one of the things we talked about
1214
00:59:07.860 --> 00:59:11.550
was maybe putting an accessibility like radio button
1215
00:59:11.550 --> 00:59:15.150
on the CATSafe app that people can just click on
1216
00:59:15.150 --> 00:59:19.230
because a lot of members of that population
1217
00:59:19.230 --> 00:59:20.580
do have cell phones.
1218
00:59:20.580 --> 00:59:24.960
So looking at how do we use what we already have CATSafe.
1219
00:59:24.960 --> 00:59:29.220
And so Alex was gonna talk to Mike Shirley
1220
00:59:29.220 --> 00:59:31.780
because CATSafe falls under Risk Management
1221
00:59:33.030 --> 00:59:36.210
to talk about potentially utilizing that platform
1222
00:59:36.210 --> 00:59:38.673
for some additional communication tools.
1223
00:59:41.670 --> 00:59:45.360
I think that was really important.
1224
00:59:45.360 --> 00:59:50.360
We're also talking about having like more of a landing page.
1225
00:59:52.230 --> 00:59:54.030
Not necessarily when you log in,
1226
00:59:54.030 --> 00:59:55.950
but when you open your browser
1227
00:59:55.950 --> 01:00:00.513
that it would just go to myUVM, so it just pops up.
1228
01:00:02.130 --> 01:00:04.500
And then that could be a little bit of a messaging board
1229
01:00:04.500 --> 01:00:08.343
for some really like important information.
1230
01:00:09.300 --> 01:00:12.150
And one of the avenues we talked about
1231
01:00:12.150 --> 01:00:15.390
is not pushing everything out there,
1232
01:00:15.390 --> 01:00:19.560
but more having a platform where there's just highlights
1233
01:00:19.560 --> 01:00:22.227
that if it applies to you, you can click on it.
1234
01:00:22.227 --> 01:00:24.450
'Cause not all information applies to everybody.
1235
01:00:24.450 --> 01:00:28.030
Some limited information does apply to everybody
1236
01:00:30.090 --> 01:00:35.090
and just trying to juggle who gets what information.
1237
01:00:40.830 --> 01:00:43.230
And also having an opportunity for people
1238
01:00:43.230 --> 01:00:45.720
to go to a place to select
1239
01:00:45.720 --> 01:00:48.393
versus just pushing everything out there.
1240
01:00:49.710 --> 01:00:52.800
And definitely, feedback from constituents
1241
01:00:52.800 --> 01:00:55.050
and like what works, what doesn't work?
1242
01:00:55.050 --> 01:00:56.220
What would you like to see?
1243
01:00:56.220 --> 01:01:00.030
What do you experience in your life outside of UVM,
1244
01:01:00.030 --> 01:01:01.830
that is like, well this works really well
1245
01:01:01.830 --> 01:01:04.290
with my local group or something like that.
1246
01:01:04.290 --> 01:01:06.300
'Cause plenty of people
1247
01:01:06.300 --> 01:01:09.507
have figured out things that work better, so (chuckles),
1248
01:01:11.892 --> 01:01:13.950
And I think that probably summarizes
1249
01:01:13.950 --> 01:01:15.723
those visits pretty well.
1250
01:01:17.065 --> 01:01:20.490
I think I'm gonna be meeting with the president,
1251
01:01:20.490 --> 01:01:23.010
aren't we meeting with the president in two-ish.
1252
01:01:23.010 --> 01:01:24.810
Two weeks.
In two weeks.
1253
01:01:24.810 --> 01:01:26.913
So if you have any thoughts, ideas.
1254
01:01:28.770 --> 01:01:33.240
Patty's very engaging. She's always looking for input.
1255
01:01:33.240 --> 01:01:36.450
She and Linda Schadler have been very proactive
1256
01:01:36.450 --> 01:01:38.580
about creating working groups,
1257
01:01:38.580 --> 01:01:41.640
bringing union, governance, leadership together
1258
01:01:41.640 --> 01:01:43.590
for these discussions.
1259
01:01:43.590 --> 01:01:44.910
That's where a lot of the concern
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01:01:44.910 --> 01:01:46.440
about communication came out.
1261
01:01:46.440 --> 01:01:50.520
So very productive.
1262
01:01:50.520 --> 01:01:53.193
To steal a word from Richard, very fruitful.
1263
01:01:55.230 --> 01:01:57.673
You wanna add anything to that, guys?
1264
01:01:57.673 --> 01:01:58.962
No.
All good?
1265
01:01:58.962 --> 01:01:59.795
All right.
1266
01:02:01.159 --> 01:02:03.059
How are we doing on time? Pretty good.
1267
01:02:04.230 --> 01:02:05.673
Any questions?
1268
01:02:07.620 --> 01:02:10.563
Anything that you want us to bring forward?
1269
01:02:17.040 --> 01:02:19.163
So I'll open it up to council members
1270
01:02:19.163 --> 01:02:22.290
for you to bring forward any thoughts or ideas,
1271
01:02:22.290 --> 01:02:25.500
concerns, things you've come across
1272
01:02:25.500 --> 01:02:29.103
that you wanna make sure get talked about here?
1273
01:02:30.879 --> 01:02:32.837
Yes.
I just have a couple.
1274
01:02:32.837 --> 01:02:34.050
So we have the IES,
1275
01:02:34.050 --> 01:02:36.420
the Inclusive Excellence Symposium next week
1276
01:02:36.420 --> 01:02:40.503
and I encourage you to register, if you have not already,
1277
01:02:41.419 --> 01:02:46.020
or to ask your colleagues to register if they haven't.
1278
01:02:46.020 --> 01:02:48.720
It's gonna be really lovely and super excited.
1279
01:02:48.720 --> 01:02:52.093
It's a great opportunity for professional development.
1280
01:02:52.093 --> 01:02:55.357
I also have two sessions next week that I'm training for.
1281
01:02:56.360 --> 01:02:58.950
So one is My Identity.
1282
01:02:58.950 --> 01:03:01.530
It's just like some foundation identity level concepts
1283
01:03:01.530 --> 01:03:03.480
and then What is Culture?
1284
01:03:03.480 --> 01:03:04.920
So one on Monday and one on Friday
1285
01:03:04.920 --> 01:03:07.260
and I encourage you to register.
1286
01:03:07.260 --> 01:03:09.610
If you wanna hang out with me, I'm kind of fun.
1287
01:03:11.220 --> 01:03:12.540
So there's those pieces.
1288
01:03:12.540 --> 01:03:15.570
And then the other piece that I wanted to just note
1289
01:03:15.570 --> 01:03:17.160
is that there's conversations happening
1290
01:03:17.160 --> 01:03:22.160
around affinity groups in Employee Resource model,
1291
01:03:23.160 --> 01:03:24.420
Employee Resource Group-
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01:03:24.420 --> 01:03:25.563
IRG?
Yes.
1293
01:03:27.208 --> 01:03:29.670
And that I am hoping to support
1294
01:03:29.670 --> 01:03:31.620
that work with Nick Stanton.
1295
01:03:31.620 --> 01:03:33.720
As a HR Staff Council faculty,
1296
01:03:33.720 --> 01:03:37.230
I come from Latino staff and Faculty Association.
1297
01:03:37.230 --> 01:03:39.510
So not so much an update,
1298
01:03:39.510 --> 01:03:40.830
but just that there's curiosity
1299
01:03:40.830 --> 01:03:42.090
about what that structure looks like.
1300
01:03:42.090 --> 01:03:44.940
I'm super open to having time to talk through
1301
01:03:44.940 --> 01:03:49.500
what that means and some of what I'm hoping for, so.
1302
01:03:49.500 --> 01:03:50.340
That's all I have.
1303
01:03:50.340 --> 01:03:52.440
And Carly, how would we find more information
1304
01:03:52.440 --> 01:03:54.750
on how to register and stuff or what you're offering?
1305
01:03:54.750 --> 01:03:56.907
So the link went out on Staffline
1306
01:03:56.907 --> 01:04:00.783
for the register links for my sessions.
1307
01:04:01.650 --> 01:04:03.900
And then the other one
1308
01:04:03.900 --> 01:04:07.120
was I put it in the chat for Teams today, yeah.
1309
01:04:07.120 --> 01:04:09.420
Yeah, thanks for bringing up the affinity groups.
1310
01:04:09.420 --> 01:04:14.420
So Nick Stanton has done a tremendous amount of work on this
1311
01:04:14.910 --> 01:04:17.340
and I think we're getting a lot of traction
1312
01:04:17.340 --> 01:04:20.370
by joining forces with faculty Senate
1313
01:04:20.370 --> 01:04:22.833
and Staff Council and HR.
1314
01:04:24.750 --> 01:04:28.710
And this will really generate an opportunity
1315
01:04:28.710 --> 01:04:31.560
for groups that already exist on campus
1316
01:04:31.560 --> 01:04:36.390
to have more of a presence, more of a voice
1317
01:04:36.390 --> 01:04:39.270
and accessibility to university funding.
1318
01:04:39.270 --> 01:04:41.400
There are dollars that are gonna be available
1319
01:04:41.400 --> 01:04:44.970
in addition to, you know you can book space for your event:
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01:04:44.970 --> 01:04:47.310
if you're the Knitting Club,
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01:04:47.310 --> 01:04:52.310
if you're the Salsa Dancing Club, if you're the Ski Club,
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01:04:52.710 --> 01:04:55.110
if you're the Cookie Baking Club, all of those things.
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01:04:55.110 --> 01:04:58.080
So we're probably gonna be looking
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01:04:58.080 --> 01:05:02.790
at a pilot program to start with a couple groups
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01:05:02.790 --> 01:05:04.007
and then they can provide feedback.
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01:05:04.007 --> 01:05:05.700
'Cause one of the concerns
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01:05:05.700 --> 01:05:08.790
is I don't really want everybody knowing my business, right.
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01:05:08.790 --> 01:05:11.980
So we want certain level of anonymity to the groups
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01:05:14.100 --> 01:05:16.470
and that's different for each group.
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01:05:16.470 --> 01:05:18.750
You know some people aren't gonna care if you knit.
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01:05:18.750 --> 01:05:22.650
But if we start talking about like your ethnicity
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01:05:22.650 --> 01:05:25.530
or your religion, your race, your sexuality,
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01:05:25.530 --> 01:05:29.193
that gets much more complex.
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01:05:30.720 --> 01:05:32.670
And I think you mentioned
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01:05:32.670 --> 01:05:36.870
that you come from an institution where you lived that,
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01:05:36.870 --> 01:05:39.360
Yeah.
So you're really excited
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01:05:39.360 --> 01:05:40.720
to see us building this out, right?
1338
01:05:40.720 --> 01:05:42.570
Yeah, I'm super excited.
1339
01:05:42.570 --> 01:05:44.190
The shared responsibility piece
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01:05:44.190 --> 01:05:45.300
is what makes me really eager
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01:05:45.300 --> 01:05:47.610
for what the potential could be.
1342
01:05:47.610 --> 01:05:49.200
So at my previous institution
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01:05:49.200 --> 01:05:50.697
it was a staff and faculty association
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01:05:50.697 --> 01:05:53.640
and so those things were very deeply connected.
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01:05:53.640 --> 01:05:55.710
But then there's opportunities for mentorship
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01:05:55.710 --> 01:05:58.920
and cross collaboration and professional development.
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01:05:58.920 --> 01:06:01.770
We had staff go faculty and faculty come back to staff.
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01:06:01.770 --> 01:06:04.503
And so it creates a kind of pocket.
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01:06:05.370 --> 01:06:06.480
And then there's opportunities
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01:06:06.480 --> 01:06:07.770
for mentorship with students, right.
1351
01:06:07.770 --> 01:06:10.230
So it really kind of takes on a life of its own,
1352
01:06:10.230 --> 01:06:12.573
depending on the topic to your point.
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01:06:13.530 --> 01:06:15.510
But it's also, pathways for funding
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01:06:15.510 --> 01:06:17.580
for certain opportunities and things like that.
1355
01:06:17.580 --> 01:06:18.413
So, yeah.
1356
01:06:19.680 --> 01:06:23.130
And you know Linda is very invested in this, right?
1357
01:06:23.130 --> 01:06:24.780
Um-hmm.
She's putting money
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01:06:24.780 --> 01:06:25.613
into the pot.
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01:06:25.613 --> 01:06:30.030
So more to come on that we're trying to be intentional
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01:06:30.030 --> 01:06:35.030
and mindful about concerns and also get it off the ground.
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01:06:35.940 --> 01:06:37.533
And I think we're hoping,
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01:06:38.610 --> 01:06:40.860
like I said, maybe five for the pilot
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01:06:40.860 --> 01:06:43.500
and then it'll start attracting.
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01:06:43.500 --> 01:06:44.970
People will start hearing about it
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01:06:44.970 --> 01:06:48.903
and then get some really solid numbers,
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01:06:49.920 --> 01:06:51.903
around 10 or more in year two.
1367
01:06:54.420 --> 01:06:56.370
Yeah.
I have something,
1368
01:06:56.370 --> 01:06:57.660
I don't think this was in Staffline,
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01:06:57.660 --> 01:06:59.370
but there was an email that went out,
1370
01:06:59.370 --> 01:07:00.210
I can't find it right now,
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01:07:00.210 --> 01:07:05.210
but just putting in a plug for the Campus Safety Awards
1372
01:07:05.220 --> 01:07:07.530
and this is the second year it's happening.
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01:07:07.530 --> 01:07:09.750
From my division, I had no idea what it,
1374
01:07:09.750 --> 01:07:11.520
I went 'cause I got a free lunch, you know.
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01:07:11.520 --> 01:07:13.797
(others laughing)
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01:07:13.797 --> 01:07:16.020
But it was incredibly moving.
1377
01:07:16.020 --> 01:07:18.240
And as a member of the campus community
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01:07:18.240 --> 01:07:20.520
you don't realize what people do to just,
1379
01:07:20.520 --> 01:07:22.350
you don't even realize what's happening
1380
01:07:22.350 --> 01:07:24.000
because they're so good at their jobs.
1381
01:07:24.000 --> 01:07:26.013
It happens in the background.
1382
01:07:26.940 --> 01:07:29.310
It's a really great group of people.
1383
01:07:29.310 --> 01:07:32.193
And I just wanna say if you have time to attend,
1384
01:07:33.480 --> 01:07:35.820
it's both an opportunity to learn about
1385
01:07:35.820 --> 01:07:37.233
what's happening on campus
1386
01:07:37.233 --> 01:07:39.840
and then also to kind of connect with some good people
1387
01:07:39.840 --> 01:07:43.650
and hear what's happening.
1388
01:07:43.650 --> 01:07:46.323
So yeah, last year was the first year,
1389
01:07:47.640 --> 01:07:48.840
so I don't know if it's gonna be different,
1390
01:07:48.840 --> 01:07:52.890
but it was kind of, it's interesting.
1391
01:07:52.890 --> 01:07:56.060
And I think it's gonna be here in Davis this year.
1392
01:07:56.060 --> 01:07:57.153
Do you know when?
1393
01:07:58.680 --> 01:08:00.030
Just like March, April.
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01:08:00.030 --> 01:08:03.597
It is coming now, Tuesday the 15th of April,
1395
01:08:03.597 --> 01:08:06.387
from 2:00 to 5:00.
1396
01:08:06.387 --> 01:08:09.720
And you can register it's in the, I got an email directly,
1397
01:08:09.720 --> 01:08:11.970
but I think it's in the online calendar.
1398
01:08:11.970 --> 01:08:12.920
You can it look up.
1399
01:08:15.330 --> 01:08:17.550
I don't think the winners have been announced yet.
1400
01:08:17.550 --> 01:08:19.410
I don't know, I think the winners,
1401
01:08:19.410 --> 01:08:23.280
I don't know if the winners know before the ceremony.
1402
01:08:23.280 --> 01:08:25.080
Obviously, they have to attending the ceremony,
1403
01:08:25.080 --> 01:08:27.380
but like how soon they have (indistinct) of...
1404
01:08:28.230 --> 01:08:31.140
The safety nominations just closed yesterday.
1405
01:08:31.140 --> 01:08:32.610
Okay.
So again,
1406
01:08:32.610 --> 01:08:33.960
like from a learning perspective,
1407
01:08:33.960 --> 01:08:37.800
like what are these categories?
1408
01:08:37.800 --> 01:08:38.880
Like how's that even a thing?
1409
01:08:38.880 --> 01:08:40.053
But it's like, oh my god,
1410
01:08:40.053 --> 01:08:41.853
yeah that's actually real important.
1411
01:08:42.930 --> 01:08:44.880
People-
It's another way
1412
01:08:44.880 --> 01:08:45.872
to recognize.
1413
01:08:45.872 --> 01:08:48.213
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. Great.
1414
01:08:50.280 --> 01:08:55.233
Anyone on Teams have anything they wanna bring forward?
1415
01:09:01.697 --> 01:09:04.379
I think Al. Al?
Thank you.
1416
01:09:04.379 --> 01:09:07.410
If nobody else has anything at this moment?
1417
01:09:07.410 --> 01:09:09.780
So our annual End of Year Luncheon
1418
01:09:09.780 --> 01:09:12.720
is currently scheduled for June 4th.
1419
01:09:12.720 --> 01:09:14.730
That's a Wednesday from noon to 1:30.
1420
01:09:14.730 --> 01:09:17.190
It's sponsored by the President's Office.
1421
01:09:17.190 --> 01:09:19.680
For our newer folks on an annual basis
1422
01:09:19.680 --> 01:09:21.870
at the end of our year we have a luncheon
1423
01:09:21.870 --> 01:09:23.503
that's recognized by senior administration.
1424
01:09:23.503 --> 01:09:26.850
As I said, the President's Office actually organizes
1425
01:09:26.850 --> 01:09:27.683
and runs the whole thing.
1426
01:09:27.683 --> 01:09:30.870
It's a really nice event, hour and a half. Nice lunch.
1427
01:09:30.870 --> 01:09:32.220
Get to rub elbows with people
1428
01:09:32.220 --> 01:09:33.990
you might not otherwise rub elbows with.
1429
01:09:33.990 --> 01:09:36.840
And also staff council members are recognized
1430
01:09:36.840 --> 01:09:39.660
for their work over the course of the year.
1431
01:09:39.660 --> 01:09:44.227
And this particular year is also the transfer of the gavel,
1432
01:09:45.840 --> 01:09:47.086
yes, there is a gavel.
1433
01:09:47.086 --> 01:09:48.600
There is.
Pass the gavel of the office
1434
01:09:48.600 --> 01:09:53.040
from the outgoing president to the newly elected president
1435
01:09:53.040 --> 01:09:55.500
we'll have that event as well.
1436
01:09:55.500 --> 01:09:56.970
So remember that date.
1437
01:09:56.970 --> 01:09:59.370
There will be an official invitation
1438
01:09:59.370 --> 01:10:00.960
coming out from the President's Office,
1439
01:10:00.960 --> 01:10:04.650
probably, I think in May is when we'll send that out.
1440
01:10:04.650 --> 01:10:06.750
I'll probably send out an invite,
1441
01:10:06.750 --> 01:10:09.540
calendar invite just for save the date so it's blocked out
1442
01:10:09.540 --> 01:10:12.900
before you actually get the official invitation
1443
01:10:12.900 --> 01:10:14.343
from the President's Office.
1444
01:10:16.020 --> 01:10:18.480
Thank you.
Yeah.
1445
01:10:18.480 --> 01:10:20.730
That's a great event.
1446
01:10:20.730 --> 01:10:25.730
It's really a high-value event, I guess I would call it.
1447
01:10:25.770 --> 01:10:28.220
Oh, Waterman Manor this year is where it'll be.
1448
01:10:29.111 --> 01:10:30.843
Oh, okay. Great.
1449
01:10:32.490 --> 01:10:33.513
Anyone else?
1450
01:10:37.380 --> 01:10:41.010
All right, not hearing anyone or seeing any hands,
1451
01:10:41.010 --> 01:10:44.400
I think we can go ahead and adjourn the meeting at 1:18.
1452
01:10:46.740 --> 01:10:47.910
Thanks all for coming
1453
01:10:47.910 --> 01:10:51.630
and all the work and contributions.
1454
01:10:51.630 --> 01:10:52.980
Really grateful. Thank you.
1455
01:10:53.946 --> 01:10:55.613
Thank.
Thank you.
1456
01:10:59.212 --> 01:11:01.230
Jen, great job
1457
01:11:01.230 --> 01:11:04.107
not having to do the minutes.
Oh yeah, I forgot.