A.N.T.S. Meeting Minutes – 09-24-02

1. Call to Order & Introductions

Meetings were held on September 24, 2002 at 12:00 p.m. & 6:00 p.m. in the Terrace Room at UW Marathon Campus.

Present at these meetings were:

Terri Baker – 2002/2003 President

Jacki Streveler – Non-Trad. Student Advisor

Dan Sullivan – Student Activities Director

Students - Regina Reginski, Jane Ritger, Amanda ___, and Michelle ____.

2. Quorum Present

We discussed quorum requirements with Dan Sullivan since we are all relatively new to the “Robert’s Rules of Order” business meeting format.

3. Minutes

There were no minutes to read from the last meeting since this is the first meeting of the academic year and the club is being reactivated with new members and new officers.

4. Officer’s Report

Since we don’t have “official” officers yet, we had a general discussion about things the ANTS organization has done in the past year since it’s inception or will be doing within the next few weeks. These things included:

• Informational Table in Student Union Hallway – Sept. 25, 2002
• Informational Table with student representatives present to talk with spectators – Club Days - Oct. 1 & 2, 2002. (Located in Student Union Hallway and Concourse Hallway)
• Informational table and 2-minute club presentation at New Student Welcome day – Sept. 1, 2002 – Regina and Terri were on hand to talk with interested students and Terri did a 2-minute presentation to students on what ANTS is all about.
• New student “Packets of Information” are being handed out to new students at Freshman Lecture classes and to students through Patti & Jackie’s office and to students other members see in class or in the halls. This packet includes our ANTS Brochure, information about upcoming meetings date & time, non-trad orientation date & time, child care subsidy information, women’s free health checkup informational brochure, and a copy of the “returning adult student survey” being used to compile information about who our target audience is on campus.
• A notice was mailed to approximately 75 new incoming non-traditional students announcing the Non-Trad Orientation held on ________. ANTS was able to also include a brochure and a poster announcing the date and time of our first meeting. Thanks Patti for allowing ANTS to be included in your mailing.
• The “Returning Adult Student Survey” has been our mail goal during the summer – we sat in the hallway at a table several times and talked with passing students and asked non-traditional students to complete a survey to help us determine the needs of the campus population. Jackie is tabulating the results of the surveys we have collected up to this point and will have a report for us at the next meeting of some of the information they contain.
• Last years activities included numerous informal breakfast get-togethers in the Terrace Room throughout the year and also a holiday party during mid-semester break which was attended by ANTS members and their families.
• Last year we also began working with the Child Care Connection and East Bay to discuss possibility of partnering with them to begin a much-needed day care in the immediate area near campus that can facilitate the needs of part-time, flexible, affordable day care for our students.
• An ANTS representative attended several of the “Open House” days held by the Non-Trad Student Advisors on campus during the summer break which were advertised to the community. We were able to talk with several participants about ANTS and the advantages of coming back to school at UWMC and make some possible contacts for this year with some of the participants.

5. Committee Reports

a. Survey Committee – Jackie is working on tabulating the results of the completed surveys we have to date and will report some of the findings at the next meeting. We would like to have more times throughout the coming year to collect more of them from students on campus.

6. New Business

Suggestions we talked about for the upcoming year were:

• Creating a list of child care providers in the area – both certified & uncertified and group & family care – to have on hand for students who need childcare. This list would not constitute our backing of any of the providers but would simply be a way to provide a place for a centralized list of names and numbers for our students who need child care. All contact, reference checks, etc. would be entirely up to the person using the child care – this would only be a list of names we knew of in the community who provided child care services. We will continue this discussion and make a decision on it after officers are elected.
• Dan suggested we make a request to Student Association that they require all non-trad Senators be present at the monthly business meetings. If they are going to represent the non-traditional student population, they should be informed and active in our organization since that is the purpose of ANTS.
• We discussed the creation of a Web Page to represent the ANTS Organization to be linked to the campus web site. There are several other clubs with pages on the web site and Scott Bouffleur and Dan Sullivan would like all clubs to have a page on that site. Terri and Regina will work on that this coming week and hope to have something ready to publish next week. This will make contact with our members much easier since e-mail is often times overlooked and we do not want to send out too much junk e-mail. With the web site we will be able to get information to members and whoever is interested will have constant access to all information.
• Discussion was held about the need for childcare during L&FA events which are held on campus at night. Jackie is checking on the legality of planning corresponding “Children’s Story Hour” or “Children’s Craft Time” in the Terrace Room. If we plan activities for children that correspond to the activities their parents are attending in a room across the hall in the same building we may not be providing “day care” and therefore may be able to set this up much easier than if it falls under the State Day Care Regulations. Dan Sullivan also wondered if the L&FA events scheduled on campus should be held at earlier times to make attendance by non-traditional students more convenient. We will discuss this issue at subsequent meetings and may be able to make a request for that to the Student Activities Board if we feel it would make a difference.
• We discussed the possibility of doing some type of informational table at the Fair in August to represent UWMC and the ANTS club combined. We may be able to get other student clubs interested in helping with that activity and may also be able to get at least partial campus funding if we can include enough general information about UWMC that it will be beneficial to the campus to have representation there. We will discuss this at future meetings.
• We discussed with Dan Sullivan the procedure for requesting the $500.00 each club/organization has allotted through the Student Fees. We have notes on that procedure and will do that as soon as we have officers elected. We will discuss possible uses for the money at future meetings and add to the list we started at this meeting so we can make a general list of yearly goals and possible uses for the money and ask for the entire amount to be transferred into the fund for us at the beginning of the year instead of going back to the board to ask several times throughout the year.
• We would like to have an afternoon (Saturday or Sunday) open at the UW Pool where non-traditional students and their families can use the UW pool and then have the option of either a picnic in Marathon park or an informal gathering at McDonalds after swim time. We will check on availability of the pool and set a date for sometime in mid-October before it gets too cold outside and to try to involve some others in our organization. We will probably have this open to staff and employees of campus also as a way to get to know some of them better.
• We will have a table representing ANTS at Club Days on October 1 & 2 in the Student Union Hallway. We hope to have the new web site address available by then for students and also to have the date of the swim time set so we can hand out invitations to non-trads. at that time.
• Election of officers was set to take place at the tables mentioned above but I think we will use that time to try to get a list of people who are interested in membership and also to talk with people about holding an office and helping out. We will hold elections during the next business meeting in October. Anyone interested in holding office should send an e-mail indicating that interest and why they think they would be good at that office to either Terri Baker, Ann Herda-Rapp. They can also stop in student services and talk with Patti or Jackie about their interest.
• Patti and Terri will work together next week on a bulk e-mail containing this type of information to go to all 350 present non-trad students. We are hoping to put a lot of information into this one e-mail because we are not allowed to use bulk e-mailing very often as per campus rules.
• We hope to hold weekly informal breakfast get-togethers again this year and also possibly a monthly supper informal time where non-trad students can just meet and eat!!

7. Adjournment