University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: Meeting Minutes

Notes from Planning Meeting 3

Thanks everyone who joined us for our third planning meeting. We started with a recap of the second meeting and progress with the mission statement draft. We then broke into discussion about what kinds of organizational structures we can run with that help ensure we satisfy our objectives discussed in planning meeting 2. We are …

Notes from Planning Meeting 2

Thanks to everyone who attended yesterday’s meeting. From the sign-in sheet it looks like 18 people were in attendance. We came to an agreement on what we think the broad goals of the council should be: Recruiting and welcoming new students Retention and social cohesion of existing students Career development support Department communication/advocacy We then …

Notes from Planning Meeting 1

Thanks for coming everyone. Around 30 people were in attendance, with plenty of active discussion on what the council should do and how it should try to do it. During the forum, it sounded like there’s a general consensus about the types of things a grad council should aim to do: Open channels of communication …