Committee on Awards and Scholarships Minutes for December 16, 2020
Minutes
The Academic Senate Committee on Awards and Scholarships met on December 16, 2020 2:00 PM via Zoom
Committee Members in Attendance:
Ewa Stelmach (Chairperson),
Sujun Wei (Secretary)
Benjamin Miller
Anissa Moody
Wei Lai
Mary Ann Rosa
Members Absent
Alfred McDonald Jr.
Liaisons in Attendance:
Business:
The meeting was called to order at 3:00 PM
Introductions
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.
Idea of Creating New Institutional or Departmental Awards
Discussion
From annual report 2018-2019, since the eligibility of the Special Awards is very limited, perhaps it is time to expand the number of current awards.
Decision
Veronica Lukas mentioned about CARES award, Coronavirus community fund/award ($500/student) and also budget constraint.
Updating Awards Committee Guidebook
Discussion
Ewa Stelmach raised the question that Awards and Scholarship Committee’s guidebook is outdated and not available online.
Decision
All agreed to start working on the guidebook in the Fall semester.
Future Meeting
Discussion
Multiple committee members felt that they were overwhelmed by committee work during the finals’ week, especially during pandemic.
Decision
In the future the open and close of the scholarship application will move one week ahead of current schedule. In this way it could provide extra one week for committee members to work on our students’ applications.
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 with two exceptions only. The committee members compared choices for all the applications one by one.
Decision
As for Merit Scholarship, there were 148 applications in total. 81 applications were accepted. 54 applications were voted as “Yes Pending”. 13 applications were rejected.
Respectfully submitted,
Sujun Wei
Committee on Awards and Scholarships, Secretary
Minutes typed on August 12th, 2020
