Update and February 13 meeting notes

February 13 meeting notes

 

Notes February 13 meeting.

Update

Hi everyone,

Hope you all are having a nice weekend! I just wanted to send you an update from our last meeting and let you know what's in the pipeline.

1. We received notification of funding from the UNSPWG, and we now have a budget of $250. This is more than most new student groups receive, so we have the UNSPWG to thank for their generosity!

2. Outreach is going to be key for our success. Cory and Jordan have already started a Google Doc with different sheets for us to record the contact info of Education Collaborative members (that's all of us!), other Columbia students, Columbia faculty, NYC contacts and International contacts. Please enter in your info, and the info of anyone else who would like to be part of our extended network.

The Google doc can be found here.

 

3. We will be starting an Education Collaborative Digest to send to our internal members AND external network. This will be one way of making ourselves known to the greater Columbia community and reaching out to more contacts and potential partners. So when you add people to the lists of extended networks on Cory and Jordan's Doc, please make sure that these people know they will be subscribed to this Digest. We will send an email out to them in advance as well.

 

4. We will plan at least one Brown Bag before the end of the semester. At our meeting, the possible topics for a Brown Bag included:

 

   1. Education marketization and its role in economic development;

   2. Education as it pertains to the Millennium Development Goals and affects genders differently;

   3. Worldwide social movements focused on education or initiated by participants

     within the education system (i.e., the student protests in Chile)

 

I will send out a Google Doc shortly asking for any other theme ideas you might have and who you know who might be willing to present.

 

5. The Society for International Education at Teachers College has contacted us about the possibility of partnering up with them and the International Education program at NYU to plan a day-long professional development workshop showcasing opportunities in international education. The workshop would most likely take place in April and include a few panels and a reception. Stay tuned for more info as this initiative takes shape.