Facilitator: Mark McGuire

Meeting Minutes:  Amina Tokakova 

DULCE Meeting 3/20/2020  

• Q&A on any subject matter, including in relation to DULCE projects, SGA candidacies, issues related to COVID-19 including advising, and other matters (20-25mins) 

• • Doctor’s Ruby working on helping students to get internships remotely .
  • Dean Smith is thinking about turning all the planned events into virtual events to make them accessible for students {collaborative process between the administration and the student body} 
  • Dean Smith took students questions and concerns:

• • • Question 1: how will the pass/fail classes affect the student body?  
    • The pass/fail classes are available for certain electives  
    • Most of the students in the School of Diplomacy want classes with grades.
    • If there are any questions, students should refer to Dr. Edwards 

• • Question 2: what is going to happen with the summer study board trips? Are students going to receive the refund?
    • 2 staged process:  
    • All canceled study abroad programs were asked for all the budget information (what kind of refunds could be secured?)  
    • The University will discuss on how to refund the money in the most effective way possible  

• • Question 3: What harm can the pass/fail classes cause?  
    • Will affect the Dean’s Lists
    • Restricts certain professional certificates  
    • Restricts the amount of scholarships (GPA based)  

• • Question 4: Are all the summer classes going to be provided online?
    • Yes, all the classes are going to be provided remotely. 
    • Dean Smith is teaching UN Insiders View Class (open to non-Seton Hall students as well)  
    • Dr. Edwards is teaching Diplomacy Project  
    • Summer classes are supply-demand based  
    • Communicate with Dr. Edwards if any summer classes should be added to the summer classes list  

• • Question 5: Would it be possible for seniors to take some summer classes and still graduate as a senior? 
    • It is possible to take those classes as a non-matriculate student and graduate in May 
    • Students can even take graduate-level classes 

• Update from DULCE leadership team on this academic year’s progress/ leadership transition (15min) 
  • The Accomplishments of the DULCE Team  
  • Creation of the DULCE Leadership Team  
  • Gender-representative, grade-representative, collaboration between the School of Diplomacy administration and Diplomacy students  
  • Student-Led Orientation (70% turnout rate)  
  • Social Media Presence of DULCE and its own logo  
  • More accessible for students to reach out to the student body  
  • Student Ambassador Resource  

• Uploaded on the DULCE blog and is accessible for everyone  
  • Promotes the culture of connectivity among the students of Diplomacy 
  • DULCEs IGTV initiative {the DULCE Leadership members have reached out to SGA regarding the initiative}  
  • Unique branding tool for prospective Diplomacy students  
  • DULCE takes every comment and suggestion into account  

• Interviews of current Diplomacy Students 
  • The underlined data is going to be delivered to the School of Diplomacy’s administration  
  • Digital Forms Initiative  
  • Undergrad/Grad F&Qs are ready  
  • Peter is a new facilitator of the DULCE team (Yay!) 
  • Networking event in the Fall 
  • DULCE will be working with the Alumni network 
  • International Law Panel  
  • Was scheduled on March 31st 
  • Hopefully will be moved forward for Fall 2020 

• Introductions/overview from 3 SGA Diplomacy Senator candidates (9mins) 

• Chase Cohen 
• Meghan Kundula 
• Patrick Condon 

• Introductions/overview from 2 SGA President Diplomacy candidates (6mins) 

• Julia Nicolls  
• Stefan Ferreira  

• Introductions/overview from 1 SGA At-Large Senator Candidate (3 minutes) 

• Amina Tokakova  

• Updates and comments from SGA Senator Alyssa Futa, Dean Smith and the rest of the diplomacy administration (10mins)