Education Committee

The Education Committee shall represent undergraduate interests in official University policies and priorities pertaining to education. This committee will work to ensure the academic needs of the students within the official context of the College in both its central and adjunct institutions. The committee shall also be responsible for the annual administration of the Levenson and Marquand awards.

 

Project Examples:

• Peer-to-peer guide for first-year students
• Education Secondary at the College
• Levenson, Marquand, and Dingman Awards
• Gender in the Classroom
• Textbook Accessibility

 

Student Relations Committee

The Student Relations Committee shall ensure communication between the Council, student body, alumni, and public and make sure that student views are represented in the work of the Council. The Committee shall interact with campus and other media, operate the electronic and other communications of the Council, and collaborate with student leaders with an interest in Council affairs.

 

Project Examples:

• Publicity with all other student leaders
• Bi-Semesterly UC Town Halls
• UC Weekly Update email to all students
• UC Alumni Network

 

Student Initiatives Committee

The Student Initiatives Committee aims to improve student life and community by providing new initiatives and services to the student body, and by providing funding and guidance to Harvard students with College-related initiatives and programming.

 

Project Examples:

• Club 1636 (Partnering with local businesses to throw free food events)
• Dollar Movie Nights
• Collaborations with other event planning bodies (CEB, FYSC, etc.)
  • Regurgitator Event

 

Student Life Committee

The Student Life Committee shall advocate on behalf of undergraduates and work with administrators to improve all aspects of students’ residential experience at Harvard College.

 

Project Examples:

• Subsidizing Bikes for Low-Income Students in the Quad
• Mental Health Matters Week
• Adjusting Shuttle Schedule Times
• Integrated Charlie Card HUID
• Sexual Assault Prevention on my.harvard

 

First-Year Class Committee

The First-Year Class Committee serves first-year students and create events and tangible changes to improve upon the lives of students in the yard. $10,000 should be earmarked with the goal towards capital improvements and intermediate range programming.

 

Project Examples:

• Laundry in Matthews
• Table Numbers in Annenberg
• Coffee Machine in Thayer
• Game Tables in Several Dorms (Wigg, Canaday, etc.)
• Freshman Week (“Health Week,” “We Care Week,” etc.)

 

Financial Committee

The Finance Committee shall improve student life on campus by providing the financial resources to support officially recognized student organizations and their activities. By enabling student groups, the Committee will also encourage new student activities and social and infrastructural development. The Finance Committee’s budget comes from student activities fee money, and in the fiscal year of 2017-2018 is $295,000. The Undergraduate Council voted to allocate $6,000 more to the Financial Committee budget due to very heavy cuts happening.

 

Project Examples:

• All student organization funding done weekly
• Mandatory Sexual Assault Prevention Training Module

 

Rules Committee

The Rules committee will meet regularly to generate and review potential changes to the Constitution and Bylaws. Only the Rules Committee may docket proposed amendments to the Constitution and Bylaws. In Fall of 2017, the Rules Committee was granted the power of approving the recognition of new student groups at the College.

 

Project Examples:

• Approving new student groups at the College
• Revising and reviewing the UC Constitution

 

Historian

The duties of the UC Historian include running historical investigation of the UC by cataloging all articles published about the UC, compiling information about relevant past UC initiatives and reports, interviewing former UC Officers and members about projects they led, overseeing the maintenance of the historical sections of the UC website, liaising with the Harvard University Archives and presenting a report at the end of every semester containing:

• Links and text of every published article written about the UC
• All minutes, agendas, pieces of legislation from the semester
• UC financial records from the Treasurer
• Annual/semesterly reports from the President, Vice President, and Committee Chairs
• Semesterly reports of the Caucuses

 

Project Examples:

• Utilizing Confluence to preserve institutional data

Parliamentarian

The duties of the Parliamentarian shall include clarifying parliamentary procedure upon request, taking minutes at Executive Board meetings, keeping a portfolio of all Constitution and Bylaws amendments passed by the full council, and compiling updated copies of the Constitution and Bylaws before the end of his or her term to be made available to the Council and public.

 

Project Examples:

• Keeping order at UC general meetings

 

Student Faculty Committees

• Standing Committee on General Education
• Standing Committee on Athletics
• Standing Committee on the Library
• UC Student Dining Committee
• Committee on Undergraduate Education
• Committee on Student Life
• Education Policy Committee
• Standing Committee on Arts and Humanities
• Standing Committee on Social Science
• Standing Committee on Science
• Harvard University Health Services
• Harvard University Information Technology