October 2020 Alumni Council Meeting
The fall meeting place took place via Zoom on Saturday Oct. 3. In addition to Council business, the agenda included a conversation with GSD Dean Sarah Whiting and a approval of the Governance Committee’s proposed framework and principles for representation.
Watch the meeting video. (Jump between minutes 1:17:30 and 1:24:23 to skip the break.
The Cultivation and Diversity Task Force and the Governance Committee presented three motions to be put to votes. They were all nearly unanimously approved. The text of these can be found below.
The next steps will be taken up at the Winter LAC Meeting to be scheduled in February 2021 – another Zoom event. Thanks for the on-going leadership in this from Anne-Marie Lubenau ’12 and Andrea Reimer ‘19
MOTION 1: Diversity Task Force Recommendations
To endorse the values set out in the Diversity Task Force recommendations and to adopt the recommendations and to adopt the recommendations in their entirety
Motion II: Principle Elements for Proposed By-Law Amendments
To adopt the ‘Principle Elements for Proposed By-Law Amendments’
Motion III: Transition Plan
To adopt the “Transition Plan for the Implementation of the New Governance Structure".