Glendon Committee Meeting

The Glendon Committee had their first official meeting last friday, January 3rd at the Glendon Campus. The following minutes were forwarded by Kamal Farmaly of the Glendon Committee. Please take a moment to read.

-- Forwarded Message:

Hello everyone,

First of all I would like to thank every one of you who attended the meeting and I thank you for your continuous support to Glendon WUSC project. Sorry for my long email, but as it was the first meeting it is really important that you take 3 minutes and read it please till the end thank you. Our meeting on Friday was, I would call it, ‘the official’ beginning of WUSC project in Glendon collage.

The following people were at the meeting:

Mme. Louise Lewin (Glendon Vice principal)

Professor Michael Barutciski (International Studies Department)

Carl (President of York WUSC Committee)

Kamal Farmaly

Tammy Maclean ( Rights and Democracy at Glendon)

John Wires (Rights and Democracy at Glendon)

Emilie Lavoie

Karolina Wilczynska

Here are the minutes of the meeting.
In our meeting we have established WUSC committee at Glendon with the collaboration of York WUSC committee. York Committee will contribute $ 23, 000 to the Glendon WUSC to sponsor the first francophone student at Glendon for 2006/2007. WUSC Committee at York is also committed to help and support us financially with the surplus of their levy in the coming years.

Short term objectives:

To select executive members and to share responsibilities.

To write the bylaws (constitution) of Glendon WUSC committee

To open a bank account

To contact Lynn Leblanc to send dossiers of potential WUSC candidates for selection to Glendon WUSC Committee.

To set up a date for training of all executive members by WUSC

Long term objectives:

To inform Glendon students about WUSC project and to work toward a referendum in future for a levy at Glendon to sponsor the project.

To work with the International Studies department to get more student support

To find out other funding alternatives Exp: fund raising events / providing on campus summer job for student (this option will be discussed further) / contacting different organizations for financial support / Glendon bookstore / Friends of Glendon / Cafeteria and Housing at Glendon /

Glendon WUSC documents will be collected at Mme. Lewin office

We have been informed by Carl (President of WUSC at York) that being an associated committee of York WUSC, we will be entitled for a subsidy for the events related to WUSC project through York Student Federation. Mme. Lewin has applied for $ 250 start-up funding offered by WUSC. We have the following positions available; if you are interested to volunteer with this noble cause please write to me about your preference. If we have more than one person interested in these positions then we will vote on it during our next meeting. The available positions are:

1. Vice President
2. Treasurer
3. Social and Cultural Coordinator
4. Academic coordinator

The function and responsibilities of these positions will be decided in our next meeting after drafting our bylaws.

The next meeting to select our executive members and to review our bylaws is
setup for February 20th, 2006 at 6 PM at York Hall Room # C 202 in Glendon College, please confirm your participation. Please let me know if February 20th is not convenient for you and give me you availability I will see if we could
change the date.

Regards,
Kamal Farmaly