PBK Spring 2006 Minutes
Attending: Jerry Peterson, Lori Goodman, Nancy Watson, Marlyn Spelman, Ellen Frozien, Michael Wertheimer, William Adams, Megan Burgess.
I. Report of Secretary: $260,000 endowment as of last time. Haven’t tapped funds for initiation. May raise initiation fee. Breaking even now.
II.
CRISP: Two
applicants. Kelsi
Singer $7,500. She can defer for
one year. Will be
attending
III. Rowski, Thomas visiting scholar. Contacted Asian studies department and board agreed. Approval to split with department – Majority in favor. Total cost about $1,000.
IV. Visit from national sent out an inspector general.
Fall 04 13% invite/accept
Spr 05 17%
Fall 05 32% (difference is e mail)
Spr 06 504 candidates invited with 185 acceptances
V. Constitution is out of date. National is bugging us. Need a committee to revise. (Jerry and Marlyn)
VI. Need to update list of all A&S major 4 letter abbreviations.
VII. Election of new members: Jerry Peterson was again elected President for a 3 year term.
VIII. Corey Wall in registrar’s office will be running our computer program to generate names for admissions. We discussed and approved changing the requirements for admission to become more compatible with this new process. We will now consider students who have at least half of their credits from CU-Boulder and who meet the following GPA and hour requirements: 90 hours at 3.85+ and 100 hours at 3.7+. Jerry then deletes current members and judicial affairs and names on honor code violations from this list. Violations include honor code convictions, and cases of violence, theft, forgery from judicial affairs. Single alcohol violation OK, one fire violation OK, RAP sheets reviewed. Lori noted who was able to stay in/out. Will send out invites. In future, $60 request to register can advance process by one month. Vote to invite people with violations discussed.
Experiemnt:
CH GPA
90 3.85 3.87 3.9 (YES VOTE)
95 3.75 3.77 3.80
100 3.65 3.67 3.70
(YES VOTE)
Proposal to wait until more credit hours
for simplicity. A&S puts
people on deans list at 3.75. Motion #1
New criteria be (YES VOTES, see above)
Amended to be 3.85 per 90 CH ˝
Minutes: Motion to approve minutes with correction to name spelling.
Exec. Committee for A&S
Constitution Marlyn Spelman & Jerry Peterson
Graduating Seniors – Can we emboss PBK symbol on diploma?
$60 credit card @ national office
Elections: 3 yr terms staggered
Q – Dennis Van Gerven
Jerry sent notes to campus scholars.
Jerry has been president for 15 years
Initiation April 30 5p.m. Invited Pres. Brown to speak at the initiation.
Meeting adjourned 3:55p.m.