6:20 - Attendance
6:25 - Announcements
- Honors program probably getting cut
- Still get HSB credit
- everyone currently in Honors can still graduate with Honors
- probably not accepting new Freshman
6:30 - Provost to speak on campus next week
- Wednesday, April 24th at 3:00 p.m.
- location TBA
- look for official announcement from Cheri soon
6:35 - Brainstorm questions for provost
- Why are you cutting the Honors program?
- What other programs are getting cut?
- How much money is cutting the Honors Program saving Cal Poly?
- Why have you been so difficult to get a hold of?
- Did our Honors 145 English projects affect your decision in any way?
- Honors 145 deadline? You made your decision before it?
- Where is the money going?
- How are you making better use of the money previously devoted to Honors?
- Are the research opportunities getting cut?
- What will happen to Honors housing?
- Can we still graduate with Honors?
- Are you accepting incoming Freshman?
- What will happen to Cheri?
- Is there anything we can do to change your mind?
- People decided on Cal Poly because of our Honors Program.
- Will there still be the same amount of Honors classes offered?
- How will this decision to affect current Honors Students?
- Benefits:
- Leadership experience?
- Networking
- More involved in Cal Poly
- Do you think the value of Cal Poly will decrease without an Honors program? How will we compete with other schools that do have Honors programs?
- In light of recent rumors circulating the potential elimination of the Cal Poly Honors Program, I would like to share some of my experience with the program, as a graduating senior with honors credit. The program has given me the incentive and the motivation to achieve academic excellence and expose me to a more in-depth classroom experience.
I graduated from high school with honors and the primary motivation behind achieving that status was to gain admission to a prominent university like Cal Poly. With an MBA in my future career, it was important that I worked towards the goal of graduating with a high GPA at university to go to a good graduate school. The "Graduating with Honors" status, attainable only through satisfying the requirements of the Cal Poly Honors Program, became a huge motivation tool to study and get good grades. It was an exclusive club...I wanted to be known as a honors student and the Honors Program provided the credibility to uphold that status.
But the Honors Program wasn't limited to just achieving high marks in classes. Indeed, the learning dynamic in honor-specific classes was a large part of what made maintaining honors status a priority. First, these classes were made up of other honors students...the ones who significantly cared about their education and making the most of it. No longer was a class discussion dominated by the professor and the three students who cared to share their thoughts. Instead, nearly everyone in the honors course had relevant and insightful comments to make about the discussion. The professors knew this too. I saw a difference in the teaching quality and enjoyment of honors professors versus non-honors professors. It was almost like an exclusive club within the faculty to have the chance to teach an honors course. This was evident through the enthusiasm the professor displayed while teaching material...after taking so many classes, most students can tell when a professor is enjoying teaching or not. The Honors Program is a win-win for both students and professors alike.
Without the Honors Program, Cal Poly will be turning its back on a fundamental mission of universities - to support students in achieving academic excellence. Long live the Honors Program.
Ideas:
- Get alumni involved
- Tally Freshman interest at Open House
Food Ideas:
- Grilled Cheese
- Ice Cream
- Donuts
- Cookies
- Bake-off
- Soup
7:00 - Announcements:
- April 30th (2 weeks)- Dean Bailey coming to talk about graduating... getting a job... etc. Come!
- First event proposals due next week
6:10 - Meeting Begins
6:15 - Break Into Committees
- sign up for Open House slots (sheet passed around)
- create committee rosters
6:40 - Leadership Activity (Guess Who)
- matching game- fun facts about everyone
6:55 - Announcements
- bring $10 dollars for food to next meeting
7:00 - Meeting Dismissed
7:10 - Attendance
7:11 - Cookies for Thailand Presentation
7:18 - Tacos and Cookies
7:25 - Major Boggle
7:40 - Shining Star Awards
7:54 - Who has credit right now?
7:56 - Announcements
- Marketing HSB Logo Design Competition (still accepting logos)
- you can win a prize!
- deadline = Monday
- Root Beer Event
- look for email and FB
- this Friday in Cerro Vista
- Fishbowls!
- Wednesday, March 13th (12:00 pm-3:00 pm) 216K
- Thursday, March 14th (11:00 am - 1:00 pm) 216P
- Location for next quarter
- PCV is an option
- email if you have ideas
8:00 - Meeting Dismissed
7:10 - Attendance
7:13 - Student Community Services Presentation
- Center for Community Engagement UU 217
- Student Community Services Located there
- student-run organization
- Hunger Banquet
- Change the Status Quo
- Homelessness Awareness Week
- See the Need Week
- 8 different volunteer programs
- Also Includes:
- Americorps
- Alternative Breaks
- Volunteer SLO
7:30 - Nate Honeycutt, ASI President Candidate
- philosophy: Make Students First
- believes ASI should promote student voice
- has been on ASI for 2 years
- strong advocate to remain on quarters
- was part of Armstrong's Semester Review Task Force
- questions from Nate:
- How could the success of the Honors Program be documented on campus?
- Nate (N8) Honeycutt
- nhoneycu@calpoly.edu
- email him if you have any more questions and feedback!
7:45 - Sign Poster for Honors Professors
7:45 - Suggestion Box
7:48 - S.H.O.W.
- Tanner Cook, Action in Africa
- raised over $200,000 dollars to build schools in Africa
- story about experience in Uganda
- pass around picture of Shafeik
7:55 - Announcements
- if you want to thank someone else in the club... email Jenni and she will do something special for them: jdragan@calpoly.edu
- help set up or clean up luncheon this Thursday to get another event credit!
- pick up Honors Shirts after meeting
- Academic
- We have fishbowls for Dead Week! Thank you, Academic Committee!
- Monday, March 11th (6:30-8:30 pm) 216S
- Wednesday, March 13th (12:00-3:00 pm) 216K
- Thursday, March 14th (11:00am-1:00pm) 216P
- Marketing
- logo design competition
- check your email
- accepting designs until first day of finals week
- looking for new face for Honors Student Board
- you'll get an event credit for HSB
- email hsbmarketing1@gmail.com
- Social
- right now: intramural sports sign ups and glow stick tag
- Root Beer Pong at Cerro Vista next Friday @ 6:00 pm (TENTATIVE) look on Facebook or email for update
- Community Service
- Friday March 15th in Arroyo Grande @ Oceanview Elementary (5:00-8:00 pm) volunteer at elementary school fair
- donate books in the UU, or in Cheri's office, or at next week's meeting for Worldwide Book Drive
7:10 - Attendance
7:13 - Announcements
- bring up money for T-shirts ($5 dollars)
- 3rd Event Proposals due today
- next meeting is last meeting
- stay after meeting if you want/need event credit: break down
7:15 - Break into committees
- Fundraising and Academic meet with E-Board
7:20 - Committee Announcements
- Social
- March 5th @ 8:00 p.m. (next week after meeting): "Frolicking in the Field"
- team building activities
- form Intramural team
- next Friday, March 8th: Root Beer Pong
- Community Service
- textbook drive
- donate books in boxes in UU
- can also bring to meeting
- dropping off book = 1 event credit
- look on FB page
- Habitat for Humanity later in quarter or next quarter
- Fundraising
- Marketing
- rebranding HSB
- logo design competition
- submitting logos = 1 event credit
- email to hsbmarketing1@gmail.com
- winner gets prize!
- working on newsletter
- Academic
- reserving fish bowls for dead week/finals week
7:26 - Dr. Brown's Class Next Quarter
- Philosophy professor and HSB advisor
- take his class next quarter!
- C2 GE class
- PHIL 231
- Spring: MW 2:00-4:00 p.m.
- Fall: MW 10:00-12:00 (tentatively)
- asks 3 questions
- how do I live well?
- what is the right thing for me to do?
- why care about morality at all?
- also teaching PHIL 314 C4 GE on early modern empiricism (MW)
- investigates 17th and 18th century theories of the mind
- teaching Ancient Greek Philosophy class in Fall
7:30 - Dr Brown's Video Presentation
- Christopher Langan
- Bouncer in Long Island Bar
- his IQ = 195-210
- "smartest man in the world"
- Interviewer: Errol Morris = NY Times Blogger
- TV Series: First Person (on YouTube)
- www.ctmu.org
- buy his book: "The Art of Knowing" ($10 dollars)
- learn about his theory
- sounds like Spinoza
- if this interests you, take PHIL 313 with Dr. Brown
8:07 - What did you think?
- why does he still work at a bar?
- no education beyond high school
- wife is professor
- what is the value of an IQ test?
- IQ and age
- IQ may not have as much precedence as people give it
- athletes and IQ, does it test every kind of intelligence?
- Socrates was willing to acknowledge that he didn't know things
- perspective on knowledge
- intellect as part of self
- Langan thinks he is his intellect in a body
- His theory
- what is he doing with it?
- website hasn't been updated
- he could rule the world?
- he hasn't done much
- media interest starting in late 1990's
- game show 1 vs 100 - walked away with $250,000 dollars (2007)
- many people don't know about him
- what bothered people?
- standardized values
- acts like his ideas are new (Plato's Republic, Brave New World, etc.)
- immune to criticism
- never considered another human being's intelligence
- thinks he's far wittier than he is
- thinks in black and white
- has he ever seen a psychologist?
- abuse and criticism as child
- cannot reason through that abuse
- lacking social skills?
- makes up for that with intellect
- values vs facts/truths
- "cannot derive "ought" from "is"
- making assumptions
- lives in intellectual vacuum
- no feedback or criticism
- never encounters "peers" in his opinion
- aware of the world's problems, but not self-aware
- lesson:
- Brown hopes we don't psychologically isolate ourselves like Langan
- Honors program puts you in community with large variety of people
- are highly educated people the most respected?
- college education serves same function as high school education used to
- almost need college education to get a respected job
- Langan seems suspicious of those with trained education
- he may not thrive in academic environment
- hasn't had to overcome intellectual resistance
8:30 - Next Quarter:
- another Errol Morris interview from Dr. Brown
8:33 - Meeting Dismissed
7:10 - Attendance
7:15 - Honors Seminar Opportunity
- Colleen Fitzgerrell
- went to Grand Canyon Semester through Honors Program
- one of field trips: Black Mesa Coal Mine
- another Coal Mine really close to woman's house, she got Asthma
- research project on coal mines affect on people who live around them
what this means for you:
- Honors Seminar next quarter
- Honors Credit!
- focused research group on that project
- group will meet once every week for 1 hour
- email Colleen if interested in being a part of the group
- she will give you permission number
- ckfitzge@calpoly.edu
7:20 - Tower Wars!
- pre-built tower in the next room
- build tower as close as you can to the model
- one group representative will go look at tower for 30 seconds
- explain it to the rest of the group
- cannot touch materials
7:40 - Tower Presentations
- team 3: missing many things
- traded with other teams
- how did you feel when you found out you were missing things?
- how does this relate to HSB?
- we need more supplies
- we need to work together (with other committees)
- how can we encourage collaboration?
- committee leader meetings outside of regular meetings
- it's not about winning- there is no winner
7:45 - Announcements
- Academic Trivia Night
- T-Shirt Sign ups and money
- 5 dollars
- ordering T-Shirts tomorrow or Thursday morning
- you can put your money in UU Box 408 in Epicenter (our box)
- make sure to put your name with money
- suggestion box
- 2nd Event Proposals Due today
- Teacher Luncheon
- March 7th (11am-12pm)
- clean up before and after for credit
- about 10 professors have RSVP'd
- SHOW (Show Something Humorous or Wise)
- like show and tell
- bring things/knowledge to the next 3 meetings
- 6 slots left this quarter
- sign up for this quarter or next quarter
- about 10 mins per person
- Next Quarter:
- 3rd committee event = plan one HSB meeting
7:50 - Meeting Dismissed
7:10 - Start Meeting
7:15 - Feed My Starving Children Representative
- Jordan with SLO Cru came to speak
- 2nd year - packaged over 200,000 meals last year
- 550 kids getting to eat for a year
- 22 cents per meal
- fmsc.org
- food specifically designed for starving children to restore them back to health
- want to show that Cal Poly cares about this
- campus-wide event
- February 22 and 23 @ Mountainbrook Church
- sign up for 90 min shift
- letter writing campaign to thank people helping with organization overseas
- can sign up with club (working on time and date) or as individual
- awareness gallery
- asking for donations of 25 dollars to help raise $44,000
- look for email for more details
7:25 - Attendance
7:27 - Honors Battle of the Bands
- Honors Program in danger of being cut!
- planning Battle of the Bands to benefit Honors Program in May
- asking for help getting local sponsors
- need people to staff event
- look for future emails
- local bands on campus
- bands win money and recording time
- bands and solo competitions
- Chumash Auditorium
- $5.00 admission
7:30 - Announcements
- passing around list to buy Honors T-Shirts
- working on getting more sponsors
- let us know if you know any local businesses in community
- tutoring at local schools
- sign up sheets being passed around
- volunteering as HSB
- looking for webmaster position to redesign website
- also looking for someone to do website as Senior project
- like this new Facebook page made by HSB students!
7:40 - Break into Committees
- work on second event proposals
7:56 - Committee Announcements
- Social
- Valentines after meeting!
- February 26th - Frolicking in the Field
- looking to make intramural team
- interest meeting after HSB meeting that night
- Marketing
- rebranding of Honors Program
- want a logo
- if you're good at design, send design to HSBMarketing1@gmail.com
- Community Service
- February 16th - Firefighters Charity
- February 23rd (2:00-3:30 pm) Feed My Starving Children
- February 16th - Hearts and Soles Run
- Academic
- February 19th @ 8:00 pm Trivia Night at Ciao!
- teams of 5
- Honors students
- after HSB meeting
- Fundraising
- no announcements
- still looking for sponsors
8:00 - Announcements
- fill out surveymonkey if you haven't
- thinking about starting food NEXT WEEK!
- look for email about food money
- committee chairs meet with E-Board after meeting
