25 Jan 2007 APAGSO meeting agenda

Agenda for the APAGSO general meeting on Jan 25, 2007 at 6 PM (Bar Louie, on John St. between 6th & Wright)

ELAINE CHUN is coming to campus on Friday Jan 26 (tomorrow), and APAGSO will have lunch with her 11:30-12:30 PM in the Asian American Cultural Center conference room. Please come!

Elaine Chun is a Ph.D. candidate in the Linguistics Department at the University of Texas at Austin. Her dissertation research investigates the ideological and interactional meanings of racialized and gendered mock styling at a multiethnic high school in Texas. Her research more broadly has addressed ideologies of language, humor, race, and gender as they relate to Asian American identities in both everyday contexts and popular culture.

VOTING Anyone can bring up an issue to vote on, such as co-sponsorship of an event, or an idea for an event itself. From the time the issue is brought up, we can discuss for 72 hours. Once discussion closes, members must vote within the following 48 hours, during which we discourage discussion. Cases where decisions need to be made within 5 days are exceptional. The person who brought up the issue cannot vote, unless in the event of a tie. Once an issue is brought up, an officer should note “Discussion began on (date) at (time). Discussion ends and voting begins on (date) at (time). Voting ends on (date) at (time).” These discussions and votes can either take place via email or on a message board/blog, which we would creately specifically for APAGSO. We will vote on this at the meeting.

ROLES/DUTIES of OFFICERS
president - runs meetings; monitors listserv; and communicates with institutional units.
president-elect - communicates with student units; monitors website
secretary/treasurer - manages money (includes applying for funding such as SORF and SCPF and overseeing disbursements of funds); takes minutes at meetings and distributes them to the membership; designated vote manager

TITLE CHANGE We would like to vote on changing “Vice President” to “President-Elect.” This would mean that whoever is in the position of President-Elect for one academic year would be President for the following academic year. For example, currently Sarah Park is President of 2006-2007, and Vince Pham is Vice-President (or President-Elect) and he will then automatically be President in 2007-2008. We thought this would help with continuity and familiarity, especially since graduate student turnover can be quite fast. We will vote on this at the meeting.

SCPF and AAS APAGSO applied for $3000 from the Asian American Cultural Center Student Cultural Programming Fee committee so we can co-sponsor the Asian American Studies 10 Year Anniversary Celebration. The $3000 includes 1) travel for keynote speaker/Asian Am Alumni Award recipient KW Lee; 2) hotel for panelists; and 3) printing costs for publicity and programs.

We will also apply for SORF funding to cover the costs of 1) bringing panelists to campus 2) renting facilities for an alumni luncheon on March 3, 2007 3) remaining costs.

BGSA RELATIONSHIP/EVENTS BGSA holds their general meetings on scheduled Tuesday evenings from 6-7 PM. Patrice, Vince and Sarah will try to attend the first meeting (Jan 30 6 pm @ the Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center on Matthews and Nevada). We will also ask BGSA if they'd like to hold a joint social event on Feb 8 or 15 - bowling, ice skating, game night or Jillians/Jupiters. We would also be interested in debriefing with them after the Feb 1 Chancellor's forum. Please give us your feedback regarding these events.

CONFERENCES If you are going to the AAAS conference (www.aaastudies.org) in NYC this April, please let Sarah know ASAP (sypark2@uiuc.edu). APAGSO will apply for SORF funding, and we need to be specific with names and dollar amounts by February 16, 2007. The SORF deadlines are Feb 21 and March 7. SORF will cover one mode of transportation (air travel) and 50% of registration ($45 - $22.50) minus food costs of $30/day. SORF only pays $75/night for hotel and the Grand Hyatt is $194/night. They only fund 12 people, so the first 12 to contact Sarah will be included in the application.

Also, keep in mind that the UIUC Asian American Studies program (www.aasp.uiuc.edu) provides funding for graduate students to present papers (research contributing to Asian American scholarship) at conferences. I believe it’s $300 per conference, up to 2 conferences per academic year. Contact Mary Ellerbe (Ellerbe@uiuc.edu) for more information.

Sincerely, your APAGSO officers,
Patrice, Vince and Sarah