<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">… and one more time with the meeting minutes attached. Sorry about the spam!<div><br></div><div>/Anna</div><div><br></div><div>
<div class="column"><p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Helvetica'">GSC HCA Family Subcommittee meeting
</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-weight: 700">Meeting Minutes
</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Helvetica'">Tuesday Sep 17, 2013
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<li style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Helvetica'"><p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Helvetica'">Introductions: Brittney, Nora, Emily, Sarah, Tiky, Anna and Marzyeh were present.
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<li style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Helvetica'"><p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Helvetica'">Marzyeh talked about the Family Subcommittee’s role within the GSC as being a
subcommittee under the Housing and Community Affairs Committee.
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<li style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Helvetica'"><p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Helvetica'">Anna talked about the Family Subcommittee’s past projects, especially the
recommendation to EBOC with regards to enrollment and tuition policies at the new
TCC Koch childcare center, and the recently launched Back-up Child Care Program
for students, as well as the ODGE and GSC funded project to research the potential
for creating a need-based childcare or a family grant for students with children.
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<li style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Helvetica'"><p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Helvetica'">We talked about ideas for advocacy and activities for the academic year 2013-2014
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<li style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Helvetica'"><p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Helvetica'">We would like to broaden our scope beyond childcare as it seems that our most
</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Helvetica'">important goals, back-up childcare, family daycare network and a need-based
grant, have already been reached (back-up childcare program) or have received
positive reactions from the administration (family childcare network and need-
based grant).
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<li style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Helvetica'"><p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Helvetica'">Changing the on-campus family housing policy to take into account better the
families’ needs for stability in terms of schools and childcare arrangements
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<li style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Helvetica'"><p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Helvetica'">Creating one location for all family related information which will be easy to
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<li style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Helvetica'"><p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Helvetica'">Increasing spousal access to on-campus facilities.
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<li style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Helvetica'"><p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Helvetica'">Giving MIT affiliated families access to Eastgate playground and creating an after
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<li style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Helvetica'"><p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Helvetica'">Providing childcare through MIT babysitters at the Z-center during certain days
</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Helvetica'">and hours of the week (e.g. 2 times per week at 8am-noon).
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<li style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Helvetica'"><p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Helvetica'">Creating fun, regular activities for MIT children, e.g. Simmons Hall play hours
</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Helvetica'">once a month, activities through the Lifelong Kindergarten group at Media Lab.
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<li style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Helvetica'"><p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Helvetica'">We will discuss these ideas more in the next meeting and choose the ones we would
like to focus on first.
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<li style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Helvetica'"><p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Helvetica'">Next meeting will be in October (date TBD) and meeting place will alternate between
Eastgate and Westgate throughout the year.
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<li style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Helvetica'"><p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Helvetica'">We talked about creating a poster advertising the subcommittee. This is a great time
to recruit new members. </span></p>
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</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Oct 14, 2013, at 9:43 AM, Anna Häggman wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi everyone,<br><br>Just a friendly reminder of our upcoming meeting this Wednesday (Oct 16) at 5:30pm at the Westgate lounge. The lounge is located in the basement of the Westgate high rise building. Please let me know if you will need babysitting for this meeting by the end of day tomorrow. Thanks to everyone who has already done so! As always, dinner will be provided.<br><br>We will be continuing to talk about plans for the coming year (find the minutes of our last meeting below). I would also like to talk about the subcommittee's leadership, so if you are interested in becoming a co-chair, please be sure to come to the meeting. I would also be more than happy to chat before the meeting, so don't hesitate to contact me.<br><br>Hope to see many of you on Wednesday!<br>/Anna</div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>