June 2021
June 24, 2021
SURPAS Council Meeting Agenda
Thursday, June 24th , 2021 11:30am-1:00pm
Location: Zoom
Quorum:
- Acknowledgment statement, inc group norms/mutual respect (2’)
- Welcome, Zoom etiquette (2’)
- Introductions and approval of minutes (5’)
- Updates
- Reporting vaccination status mandatory June 17
- Masking may be required for those in direct contact with patients and those who work in the hospital
- Parking enforcement returning back to normal (M-F 8am-4pm)
- Reporting vaccination status mandatory June 17
- Council Membership Elections (15’)
- Iti Kapoor (renewal) — Renewed
- Do you plan on joining any committees? (Arianna)
- Would like to join the Family Committee or International Committee (Iti)
- Do you plan on joining any committees? (Arianna)
- Rohini Datta (incoming) — Approved to join Council
- What are you most excited about doing for postdocs (Ioana)
- Interested in promoting events during NPAW and is interested in Diversity and Inclusion
- Current STEM mentor and would like to extend this into SURPAS and provide mentoring opportunities for postdocs
- What are you most excited about doing for postdocs (Ioana)
- Chuchu Wang (incoming) — Approved to join Council
- Are we students or employees? (Tim) What if you are told by some administrator that there is nothing we can do about a particular situation?
- Find a solution to get the issue resolved if not at the institutional level (Chuchu)
- Are we students or employees? (Tim) What if you are told by some administrator that there is nothing we can do about a particular situation?
- Iti Kapoor (renewal) — Renewed
- Leadership elections: (20’)
- Co-chair – Position remains OPEN
- Tim MacKenzie — running for Co-Chair
- How do you plan to make postdocs feel more comfortable and welcome (Arianna)?
- What are your top priorities? (Vimala)
- We need to support each other and getting postdocs to recognize their value
- Med School Faculty Senate – building relationships with Residents
- Ability to for postdocs to have a voting? presence on the faculty senate
- Match contributions for retirement accounts
- How do you plan to avoid burning bridges (Bradley)?
- How do you plan to support JEDI (Ioana)?
- SURPAS should encourage postdocs to become more involved (Tim)
- How would you support Committees? (Katie)
- Vote on the agenda (Tim)
- Is there anything that needs to be on agenda that is not – to make sure everyone’s needs are addressed (Tim)
- Events Coordinator- Rohini Datta – VOTED IN
- Do you have a specific plan in mind for mentoring – Was present at the SBPA mentoring event (Chinyere)
- How do you plan to make time for planning events for postdocs? (Ioana)
- Any upcoming plans given the emergence from COVID-19? (Tim)
- Advocacy Coordinator- Arianna Celis – VOTED IN
- What was your favorite part of the co-Chair position and what do you look forward to as an advocacy coordinator? (Ioana)
- Understand what the needs are for the postdoc community – being where I couldn’t be when I was co-chair (Arianna)
- We saw a 60% increase in healthcare premiums for postdocs with dependents – how will you solve these problems? (Tim)
- Needs to know what all the issues are and bringing these issues with OPA
- What is the one initiative that you will bring from your position co-chair to the advocacy coordinator position? (Bradley)
- What was your favorite part of the co-Chair position and what do you look forward to as an advocacy coordinator? (Ioana)
- Community Engagement Liaison- Ioana Marin
- What relationships have degraded over time?(Tim)
- VPGE – need to reestablish meetings (Ioana) – VOTED IN
- What relationships have degraded over time?(Tim)
- Financial Officer- Chuchu Wang – VOTED IN
- Do you have any ideas for things that you would like to implement in this position? (Bradley)
- Will collaborate with those involved to make budgeting decisions easy and transparent (Chuchu)
- Do you have any ideas for things that you would like to implement in this position? (Bradley)
- Communications Director- Vimala Bharadwaj – VOTED IN
- Initiatives for the monthly mailer? (Ioana)
- Would need some help to keep it up – social media chair (Vimala)
- Initiatives for the monthly mailer? (Ioana)
- Social Media Chair- OPEN
- Operations Manager-Julia Abitbol – VOTED IN
- Is there anything you would like to change about SURPAS? (Katie)
- Reach out to more postdocs to join SURPAS council
- Is there anything you would like to change about SURPAS? (Katie)
- Upcoming Events (5’)
- LRP Planning Committee Meeting- June 30th @ 11:30am
- JEDI Committee Meeting-July 8th @10am
- Watch the Euros- June 27th, July 3rd, & 11th @noon in The Patio
- July Council Meeting -Wed, July 28th
- Guest Speaker- Sarah Heilshorn (PACPA Chair)
