Attendees: 

Paul Edlund, Julia Haggerty, Paul Lachapelle, Brooke Lahneman, Candace Mastel, Chaney Ringer, Duke Elliot, Haley Sinoff, Jacob Northcutt, Kristin Blackler, Mary Stein, Nicholas Fitzmaurice, Susan Gallagher, Zach Hurt

Call to Order and Approval of Previous Minutes

    • January minutes approved.

Informational Items

Reviewing member participation

Zach Hurt, Natalie Meyers review

Vacant Employee, Student, Graduate Student and Community Member

  • Brooke Lahneman self-nominates for Vacant Employee/Faculty membership position.
  • Haley Sinoff self-nominates for Vacant Student membership position.
  • Jacob Northcutt self-nominates for Graduate Student membership position.
  • Nick Fitzmaurice self-nominates Vacant Student membership position.

Motions passed

  • Mary Stein motions to invite all four members into membership positions, suggesting Nick and Haley split between student position and community member position
    • Nick favors MSU student membership position, reflecting his MSU responsibilities
    • Haley favors community member position, reflecting her commitment to organizations like GVLT
  • Comments: Paul Lachapelle considers revising by-laws to permit multiples student membership positions
  • Mary Stein amends motions to install Brooke Lahneman as Faculty at large, Nick Fitzmaurice as student at large, Haley Sinoff as community member at large, and Jacob Northcutt as Graduate Student at large
  • Paul Lachapelle seconded
  • All say Aye, none opposed

Agenda Item #1-Dan Sandberg

  • Dan Sandberg reviews grant submissions, proposes email vote confirming submission for grant funds.
    • Of $12,500 dollars, approx. $6,800 remain for future funding.

Agenda Item #2- Julia Haggerty

  • How can we operate CSAC as a more inclusive operation to make space for students to access CSAC funding and resource?

Agenda Item #3- Susan Gallagher

  • CATS- Community Engaged and Transformational Scholarship Initiatives

Creating interdisciplinary opportunities

  • How can we get more cross disciplinary learning opportunities for students?
    • Finding professors that will work together to put multidisciplinary projects in place
    • Brian Brush is looking to get civil engineers involved in a collaboration.
    • Having students involved with the community serves the purpose of a land grant university and gets them more engaged in their work.
  • Create a list of potential capstone projects to help create more interdisciplinary work between departments.
    • Biggest issue preventing collaboration is capstone instructors not knowing who each other are and what they are doing for capstones.
    • CSAC work with DSEL lab (design sandbox for engaged learning) to create interdisciplinary learning opportunities around sustainability.

Agenda Item #4 -Kevin Amende

  • ASHRAY (American society of heating refrigeration and air condition engineers) Build bikes that would measure student’s energy output while using the bikes and then put the energy into heating and cooling.
    • Wants to run project as a capstone.
    • Maybe put into wellness facility.
    • Looking for funding, will vote over email.
  • How can we get more student proposals for CSAC funding?

Agenda Item #5 Kristen Blackler / Pual Lachepelle

  • Second nature is holding 4 sessions.
    • Could host for $3500, gives 10 faculty and 20 students full access.
    • Good way to help come up with a climate action plan.
    • Would help the climate action plan group.
    • Small cohort of faculty and some students participating. Would meet after to distill key points and disseminate info to CSAC.
    • Recording of sessions would be available.
    • Can we distribute attendance and note taking among enough people to cover sessions and make it worthwhile to fund?
    • Cost share with sustainability office.

CSAC UPDATES

Kristin Blackler

  • Wellness center has funding to put in solar array which will be the largest one in Montana.
  • Starting to look at campus energy generation more holistically.

Duke Elliot

  • LED Lighting retrofit for Fieldhouse.
  • Working on outdoor lighting for 11th and grant street.
  • Working on various LED lights around campus
  1. Public comment
  2. Adjournment