SGA Meeting Notes | The Wright State Guardian
During the SGA meeting on Nov. 24, a proposal was introduced for changing fall 2020 grades, resolution 21-01 was proposed, and several initiatives were discussed.
Change of grade proposal
During the meeting, Faculty Senate President Laura Luehrmann talked about the discussions regarding changing grades for the fall 2020 semester.
“We are concerned about trying to make sure we can mitigate and lessen any of the negative effects of the upheaval and challenges of 2020. Our proposal is to focus on any grade that is a failing grade, so if a student earns and F or an X those would automatically be converted by the registrar to a U grade– an unsatisfactory grade,” said Luehrmann.
If this proposal is approved, any failing grades will automatically be changed to an unsatisfactory grade. The purpose of this, according to Luehrmann, is to protect grade point averages as an unsatisfactory grade does not factor in to GPA’s. Luehrmann also said that if this proposal is to pass, that it would be applied to the summer 2020 grades as well.
Resolution 21-01
During the meeting, Resolution 21-01, which requests that the Village vehicle and pedestrian gates along Zink rd. be opened, was proposed. Resolution 21-01 calls for only the gates in front of the Village apartments to be opened.
Further updates on this resolution will be available in the upcoming weeks.
Bi-weekly student body updates
SGA is working on a bi-weekly student body update that will be a two-page document emailed to students.
“We want to utilize this because, since we aren’t on campus, it would be another way to connect with students,” said SGA Chief Policy Officer Eli Smith.
SGA’s goal is to begin these updates within a few weeks.
Mask drive update
Commuter Senator Sabrina D’Alesandro gave an update on the mask drive saying that 210 masks have already been collected.
“If we stay on this trajectory, I’m hoping that by Feb. 5 we can donate over 1,000 masks,” said D’Alesandro.
CoLA town hall
College of Liberal Arts (CoLA) Senator Victoria Solomon announced that CoLA will be hosting a town hall event on Dec. 4 from 2 to 3:30 p.m.
“CoLA is having a town hall meeting for students to come and talk to the CoLA Dean’s student advisory board (DSAB) about what went well and not so good this past semester and what we can improve on next semester,” said Solomon.
Anyone is welcome to attend the remote SGA meetings on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. over WebEx.
