Location: Upper Sayles
Time: 8:30 am
Present Joe Concannon, Mihaela Czobor-Lupp, Danette DeMann, Ellen Farnham, Daniel Groll, Fadi Hakim, Sara Hooker, Forrest McKnight, Duncan Sallstrom
Absent Bakhtawar Chaudhary, Chris Clark, Fred Rogers
Secretary: Claire Milsted
Visit from Dan Apfel:
Dan Apfel, director of the Responsible Endowments Coalition, is visiting Carleton onTuesday, April 3rd through Wednesday, April 4th. We went over a tentative timeline of his visit and discussed several issues relating to preparing for this event.
Joel Weisberg will drive some CRIC members to St. Paul; we can have dinner with some Macalaster students before we bring Dan back to Northfield. Mr. Apfel will stay in the alumni guesthouse on the night of Tuesday, April 3rd. He will have a key and a room and a locker. Continental breakfast will be available in the guesthouse kitchen on the morning of Wednesday the 4th. He will also have a temporary Onecard for the duration of his visit so that he can eat meals in our dining hall or Sayles. The cost of this visit is coming out of our budget from the treasurer, but we calculate that we will be well within the amount we had previously allotted.
Dan Apfel can come to our normal weekly meeting at 8:30 on Wednesday, April 4th. Then, we plan for him to have a meeting with some CRIC members plus David Ames ‘11 and Varsha Seetharam ’08 of the investment office at 2 PM in Laird 204. Tentatively, Forrest, Sara, and Fadi will be attending. This meeting will be helpful because we can hear the reactions of members of the investment office to any suggestions that Dan might have.
After this, we will have a public event in the Athenaeum at 4:30 PM. Tentatively, Dan Apfel will give a brief intro, and then people (including us) will ask questions. Daniel Groll will moderate. We should try to have a less technical focus than we had at our fall event.
Daniel just printed some posters advertising this event on tablet-sized paper. We will each put up some posters. Information about this event will also be announced on the digital screens; Daniel put information about the event on on the web so it will happen automatically. We will also make a facebook event and put it in the NNB; Sara will be in charge of this. We will ask PEPS about filming the event. We could ask people to fill out a survey at the end of the talk, or maybe we could just ask people for comments and suggestions. It is also a good idea to try to get more people to join our mailing list at this event. Ellen and Joe will be in charge of this.
He will have dinner with us afterwards at 5:45 in the LDC. We will reserve one of the rooms.
Future Plans:
We should send a card to Kristen! Forrest will pick out a card and then we will all sign it.
Daniel is away next year, and Ellen will take over the website for him. She should try to do reason training with Doug Bratland, but she knows some reason already.
Some students might want to go a week of REC workshops in Wisconson over the summer. We can get some Carleton grant money for this; they will reimburse students going to conferences for up to $250.
Sara recommended an acquaintance for recruitment into CRIC. This person has work experience related to Sudan divestment and is interested in what CRIC does. The biggest problem we face is the time-consuming process of dealing with the CSA to get people officially added to CRIC. For the time being, people who are really interested can come to our meetings without officially joining, and then we can go through the formal application process later. We can also re-consider the applications from our last cycle.