Accomplishments from the week of October 23
Flu Vaccine Clinic- The UA co-sponsored the 2011-2012 Penn Flu Vaccine Clinics. Thus far, SHS has administered flu vaccines to nearly 2,000 students via 3 successful mass immunization clinics. They hope to vaccinate about 1,000 more faculty, staff and students at their last clinic on Thursday, October 27th at the ARCH. The UA, through marketing and “working the Walk” was key in spreading the word about the flu clinics and helped to significantly boost attendance. This collaborative effort, which involved student volunteers, student- and campus-organization co-sponsors, and Student Health staff, will likely serve as a model for future public health interventions at Penn. Questions about this project? Contact our Student Life Director, Jon Monfred, at studentlife@pennua.org
Holiday Absence Policy Resolution- This resolution encouraged professors to observe the University’s policy on religious holidays. Working with PRISM and the Council of Undergraduate Deans, this resolution created a letter to be sent to the faculty reminding them of the policy at the beginning of each semester. Questions about this project? Contact our Academic Affairs Director, Abe Sutton, at academics@pennua.org
Federal Government Pell Grant Funding Support Resolution- The UA affirmed support for the Federal Pell Grant program and sent a letter to Sen. Pat Toomey and expressed to him the importance of Pell Grants to students at Penn. Questions about this project? Contact our President, Tyler Ernst, at president@pennua.org
As always, you can find everything discussed at this week’s meeting here: https://docs.google.com/View?id=dnhzxtk_153×2hgdf
Email is a primary means of communications used by today’s students. It is becoming an ubiquitous media for getting important messages delivered. That’s why the UA, headed by Matt Sternberg and Faye Cheng in coordination with the Student Technology Advisory Board, have successfully lobbied the University to implement a grade email notification system in Penn InTouch in time for fall semester grade postings. This means no more need to anxiously check your grades over winter break!
Read more here.
Will Smith is college freshman, a local Pennsylvanian, part of the Academic Affairs Committee, and of course a Freshman Representative on the Undergraduate Assembly. He has been successfully coordinating the UA Airport shuttles, a service that serves the student body’s needs this upcoming Thanksgiving break, and has done an incredible amount of preliminary research into a project relating to Journalism credit for extracurricular publications.
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“Will was able to obtain 20 five-dollar bills from the Inn at Penn to use as change. Who would’ve thunk to have to gone the Inn?”
- Mark Pan, UA Vice President
“The Academic Affairs Committee applauds Will for his enthusiasm and hard work!”
- Faye Cheng, Academic Affairs Committee Director
“You Rock my socks”
-Amanda Young, Housing Sustainability & Facilities Committee Director
The UA has passed the PennApps Labs Resolution! PennApps Labs allows undergraduate developers to create and maintain web applications that improve student life at Penn. The UA is contributing $2,250 to PAL’s pilot program, which will fund a developer working an average of 15 hours a week over the course of 10 weeks to develop a study space database for Penn students. For more information, read here!
The Academic Affairs Committee (in coordination with SCUE) has recently launched a campaign to encourage professors to post their course syllabi online. So far 245 syllabi have been posted for Spring 2011, which has already surpassed the number from last semester!
More syllabi are expected to be uploaded. We’ll keep you updated!
