Next meeting: Tuesday, February 28

Remember our next meeting: Tuesday, February 28 at 7pm in the Group Study Area in Lehman Library. 

Preliminary agenda:

I. Updates: Outreach, Academics, Joint events

   A. Outreach emails

II. Planning a Brown Bag

III. Setting a date for a Happy Hour

   A. Who to invite

IV. Next steps to create a Digest

V. Open-ended questions: 

   A. Do we want an advisor?

   B. Opening up membership to SIPA (and beyond) community?

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.

Meetings Spring 2012

The next meeting is this coming Monday, February 13th at 8pm. The future meetings are listed below:

Tuesday, February 28 at 7pm
Tuesday, March 20 at 7pm
Monday, April 2 at 8pm
Monday, April 16 at 8pm

For now, we'll continue to meet in the Group Study Area in Lehman Library on the 3rd floor of the SIPA building.

New officers and projects for Spring 2012

Hi all,

Thanks to everyone who came to our Education Collaborative meeting yesterday. It was very productive and we have lots to report on, such as newly elected officers, funding and future meetings, projects, Brown Bags and Happy Hours.

To start with, congrats to our newly elected officers!

President: Coli Clements
Secretary: Pablo Alfaro
Treasurer: Catalina Diez
Outreach Co-Chairs: Cory Fox and Jordan Brensinger
Academic Chair: Dara MacDonald

Funding:
Since the UNSPWG continues to be our parent-organization, they agreed to allocate some of their funds to us for the semester. We asked for $300, but the final amount has yet to be determined.

Future meetings:
From now on we will be holding meetings every other week. Our four options for meeting times are as follows: Monday @ 8pm; Tuesday @ 1pm; Tuesday @ 7pm; Thursday @ 1pm. I know we've asked you to use Doodle a lot, but please fill out this Doodle one more time so that we can gauge which time accommodates the most people.

http://www.doodle.com/hn2bz6yhbwwfuukz
Next steps:

This semester our main goals will be to expand our network and create thorough and robust lists of education-related courses, professors, student groups and institutions across Columbia. The Outreach and Academic Chairs will update us on this front as the semester moves along. 

We will also aim to put on two Brown Bags and host Happy Hours to continue to get to know each other and highlight the importance of an education community at Columbia. The Society for International Education at Teachers College has also expressed interest in co-sponsoring an event with us later in the semester.

For our Brown Bags, we would like to gather some input from all of you. What topics are you interested in? Who do you know (professors, educational practitioners, etc. in the community) who would be interested in speaking with us? We will send out a document on this shortly, but in the meantime, please respond to this email and let us know of your ideas!

Stay tuned for more soon!

Have a great weekend,

Coli

Education Collaborative Update

Hi everyone!

Please bear with this long but very informative email and be sure to
CLICK ON THE DOODLE at the end of the message.

The Education Collaborative had a great meeting last Friday.
Unfortunately, the Happy Hour didn't work out as planned, but we'll
keep you posted for the next gathering very soon.

As of right now, we have a name, a mission, potential positions for
group members and proposed projects for the semester and beyond. We're
also exploring possibilities for funding and/or creating our own group
for this next semester.

1.      Group title:
Education Collaborative

2.      Mission:
We are a community of students and professors united by a common
belief that education is fundamental to international and public
affairs. We aim to highlight the importance of education for human
development and develop a platform for collaboration between SIPA,
Columbia, and New York City to build on our diversity of experiences
and interests in education.

3.      Positions:
-Head Coordinator (**Once the group grows, this position may need to be split into two parts: an External Coordinator and an Internal Coordinator; for now, though, the responsibilities for the one position include organizing EDU Collaborative meetings, overseeing various activities, corresponding with SIPASA, UNSPWG and other SIPA groups, etc)
-Internal Communications Chair (Taking notes at meetings, sending out
emails, etc)
-External Communications Chair (Maintaining the blog, calendar,
resource sharing, etc - basically what Pablo has been doing already)
-Treasurer (Self-explanatory)
-Outreach Chair (**May require two people: reaching out to larger
Columbia community including TC, School of Social Work, etc, to build
up our network)
-Academic Chair (**Up for discussion: compiling group lists)

4.      Projects:
-Building up our network across Columbia (TC, Social Work, Law,
Business, etc) perhaps through Happy Hours, outreach, etc
-Identifying and compiling group lists of the following:
     Students from each school interested in education
     Education courses across Columbia (and how to cross-register)
     Education-oriented professors across Columbia
     Education-oriented institutes and centers across Columbia
     Education-oriented student groups across Columbia
-Brown bags/Working lunches
-(in the long term) A one- or two-day Education Forum bringing experts
from around the University and beyond to speak (if you'd like more
details on this Forum, email Coli)

If any of you who weren't able to attend the meeting have ideas for
other positions we should vote on or other projects we should
consider, please respond to this email! Otherwise, we will go ahead
with our plan for the next meeting as is.

We would like to schedule another meeting sometime next
week to vote on these positions. We will then decide on a
regular time for our group to meet so that our proposed projects can
move forward.

Now for the doodle...please let us know when you'll be free to meet!
See below:

http://www.doodle.com/7v63wnc5zw6ewxwx

And check out our Official Blog (We're ONLINE, thanks to Pablo!)

http://sipaec.blogspot.com

Thanks so much!!