Committee on Awards and Scholarships Minutes for December 11, 2019
Minutes
The Academic Senate Committee on Awards and Scholarships met on December 12, 2019, 12:00 PM in H-345
Committee Members in Attendance:
Ewa Stelmach (Chairperson),
Sujun Wei (Secretary)
Benjamin Miller
Wei Lai
Alfred McDonald Jr.
Committee Members Absent
Anissa Moody (but submitted her voting sheet)
Liaisons in Attendance:
Business:
The meeting was called to order at 2:00 PM
Introductions
Incoming committee members Wei Lai, Alfred McDonald Jr. were introduced.
Incoming Members
Lai, Wei, Foreign Languages (2019-2022)
McDonald, Alfred, Business (2019-2022)
Continuing Members
Moody, Anissa, Social Science (2017-2020)
Miller, Benjamin, English (2018-2021)
Stelmach, Ewa, Mathematics & Computer Science (2017-2020)
Wei, Sujun, Chemistry (2018-2021)
Discussion
The agenda was distributed by Ewa Stelmach.
The minutes of May 9, 2019 and annual report of 2018-2019 were reviewed.
Decision
The minutes and annual report were approved for posting.
Updates on College Awards and Scholarships Committee Website
Discussion
Some of the committee’s previous and current annual reports and minutes are not ADA compliant. Thus, they have not been posted on the committee’s website yet. During the summer, Ewa Stelmach and Sujun Wei attended the meeting hosted by the Academic Senate Steering Committee during which they received hands-on Cascade training for uploading committee reports. Since the Awards and Scholarship Committee Annual report contains tables, more work is needed to format the Annual Report before it can be posted onto the college website.
Decision
Ewa Stelmach has initiated contact with QCC Director of Web Services David Moretti and will follow up on this important issue in Spring 2020. Sujun Wei volunteered to join her in meeting David Moretti.
Updates on Merits Scholarship Application Description
Discussion
Benjamin Miller and Wei Lai raised the question about the inconsistent quality of students’ application essays.
Decision
Benjamin Miller and Wei Lai will work on the new description of Merits Scholarship Application to guide our students to improve their writing.
Review of Merit Scholarship Applications
Discussion
The committee members had reviewed all the applications prior to the meeting. Ewa Stelmach briefly reminded the members the evaluation criteria. The Academic Merit Scholarship is given to all continuing students who have a minimum 3.25 GPA, completed 24 QCC credits, and also registered for the upcoming semesters with 15 credits, unless the student is a Nursing major or the student has accumulated 60 credits by that point. The committee members compared choices for all the applications one by one.
Decision
As for Merit Scholarship, there were 86 applications in total. 51 applications were accepted. 31 applications were voted as “Yes Pending”. 4 applications were rejected.
Respectfully submitted,
Sujun Wei
Committee on Awards and Scholarships, Secretary
Minutes typed on May 18, 2020
