Appropriations Committee coming to Mount Pleasant in April
The Michigan Senate Appropriations Committee will visit Central Michigan University on April 19.
Interim Provost Gary Shapiro revealed the visit Tuesday at a meeting of the Academic Senate. He said the committee is charged with developing the budget for state allocations to higher education.
The committee will hear a presentation by University President George Ross and any other university presidents who choose to attend.
Shapiro said CMU also is looking for as many as five students to give three- to five-minute presentations to the committee on their experiences at CMU.
“They enjoy hearing from students,” he said.
Any interested students should contact a faculty member, the dean of their college or the provost’s office directly.
Student presenters will be chosen within the next 10 days.
Other A-Senate business
The ad hoc committee responsible for advising Shapiro on posting the results of the Student Opinion Survey on the Portal held its first meeting Monday.
Due to a communication error by the provost’s office, the student representatives for the committee were not informed of the meeting and did not attend.
“We never got any e-mails about it,” said Dave Breed, Muskegon senior and Student Government Association representative to the senate.
Shelly Hinck, professor of communication and dramatic arts, gave a presentation on the progress of the new COM 555: Special Topics in Communication and COM 255: Special Topics in Communication classes.
COM 555, offered for the first time this semester, is a training course for students to become facilitators for the COM 255 course.
The COM 255 course will consist of lectures by an instructor and dialogue with small groups of classmates facilitated with students trained in the COM 555 course.
Hinck said the two courses were created to give students the opportunity to engage in dialogue with students from backgrounds different from their own.
“Research has shown that our students want more opportunities to talk with different individuals,” Hinck said.
This semester 10 facilitators are being trained in the COM 555 course.
