December 12, 2010 | Filed under: Minutes by admin
CU-EWB Executive Board Meeting
Sunday, December 12 at 5 PM
The First Meeting of the Newly Elected, 2011 E-Board, with the 2010 E-Board also in attendance
In attendance:
Anjali Bains, 2011 Ghana PL
Kristina Lee, 2011 Funding Chair
Lucy Stowe, 2010 Ghana PL
Derek Huang, NY State Rep
Rebecca Ciez, 2011 Treasurer
Claudia Vargas, 2011 Co President
Kevin Ma, 2011 Co President
Allison Duh, 2011 Programming Chair
Lacey Gleason, Uganda PL
Min Ye Shen, 2011 Secretary
Bruce Garro, 2010 VP of PR and Funding
Bethany Schneider, 2011 Chair of Education and Training
Dhristie, India PL
Sonal Bothra, 2010 President
Christine Liu, Chair of PR
New Year To-Do List, from New Board
COMMUNICATION
1. E-Board to Programs Communication
A. Glittery, bolded, colored emails
i. or better sectioning of items
2. Program to Program Communication
A. General Body Meetings
i. Returning from the conference
B. We should invite professionals to our workshops.
i. Derek is willing to help with workshops and inviting relevant persons and planning workshops.
ii. Hannah is willing to be a great resource.
C. Invite PM’s to every other E-Board meeting.
D. Create a google doc where the programs can keep track of TECHNOLOGY.
2. First PR Assignment
A. Learn how to use the website, update about Beyond Borders.
B. Update SGA website.
3. First secretary assignment
A. Updating cu-ewb@columbia.edu to include new E-Board.
B. Schedule E-Board meeting time at 5 PM on Sundays in a Board Room.
4. Outgoing E-Board Member Assignments:
A. Introduce the new board to our contacts list via email.
5. E-Mails sent to cu-ewb@columbia.edu
A. New E-Board should cc “cu-ewb@columbia.edu” to all E-Board emails they respond to.
B. First meeting next year, the E-Board should decide who replies to what kind of email.
6. Contacts
a. Professional Review Panel
A. We have created a list of professionals and professors that should be contacted with a formal letter inviting them to our panel.
B. Panel will be convening for any report that we send to EWB-USA
7. For Posterity
A. Compilation of all our CU-EWB documents!
i. Ideas: Putting the documents on the website and giving CU-EWB members a passcode. Failed because it doesn’t work with wordpress.
ii. WikiDocs
iii. Derek is looking into another workshop.
8. Conference
A. Send out email to express our interest in hosting NE conference.
B. Possibly, some E-Board member will need to complete the application over break.
9. PR Materials
CU-EWB Video
A. Christine Liu has a film department contact.
B. Should CU-EWB get its own flip camera?
Flickr Account
A. Can we post videos to Flickr? Yes
Business Cards
A. We should make more/new ones.
B. There is a template available on the website.
Newsletter
A. One per semester.
10. Travel
Travel Prep Standardization
2. Beginning of Next Semester
A. File Sharing Party!
B. January Workshop
C. Schedule a meeting time for next year!






