The Committee granted a request from Women Involved in Learning and Leadership (WILL) to move from the Career/Professional category to the Service/Social Action category.
2. Revocation of Recognition
The Committee decided to recommend revocation of Alpha Phi Alpha's UMBC recognition. Alpha Phi Alpha had not maintained the minimum five members for many semesters, and had been given until the end of the fall semester to remedy the problem.
3. Registration DeadlineStudent organizations have been alerted by e-mail to the deadline for updating their registration forms online: February 6th. Organizations that have not complied or do not have five members identified on their forms by the deadline will be alerted and given until February 15th to resolve issues with their forms.
4. Committee Plans for This Semester
The Committee discussed its work for the current academic semester. Among the issues it will address:
--Sports Clubs: The Committee will set up a meeting in the near future with Mike D'Archangelo from the Athletics Department to resolve longstanding issues relating to the process of recognizing and supporting sports clubs at UMBC.
--Abandoned Student Organization Accounts: The Committee will work with the Business Services Center to set up a process for auditing student organization accounts and ensuring that once an organization loses its UMBC recognition, funds remaining in its carryover account are disposed of in the manner specified by SGA's Budgetary Policy.--Enforcement of the SGA Finance Board's Policy on Admission to SGA-Funded Events: The Finance Board is requiring organizations accepting SGA funding to cover the full cost of an event to admit all UMBC students free of charge. The Committee plans to work with SGA to set up a system for enforcing the policy. The system will include a process for informing students and staff members participating in an event that admission may not be charged to UMBC students.
