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113th Johns Hopkins Student Government Association
Executive Summer Meeting #3
August 11th, 2025 / 06:00 PM / Online
- Attendance
- Absent -Sumi
- Present
- Introductions
- Sally Chinnis: Recap of March Meeting
- Classroom Advisory Committee established Learning Environment Design Guidelines
- What elements to prioritize and establish in classrooms
- Classroom Advisory Committee established Learning Environment Design Guidelines
- Shaffer Hall Update:
- Complete renovation of third-floor classrooms and corridor, mechanical upgrades, sprinklers added, 2 more classrooms and computer labs renovated
- Progress made, delay in sprinkler permit issuance, and final fire protection inspections
- In the final phase
- Loren Permuy: Computer Lab carpet is different from other rooms
- Mary O’Connell: Not sure what she said
- Loren Permuy: Addressing learning permit guidelines for corridors. Mentioned many new components/furniture
- Remsen Hall Update:
- Sally Chinnis: Project requested by SGA in Nov 2024 with student input at SIF
- Substantially complete: Replaced all auditorium chairs in 01 and 101, new LED lighting, other new stuff
- Lots of Wifi upgrades:
- Will be done by start of classes
- What’s Next:
- Condition: Alignment with other planned building renovations, room condition and maintenance
- Right sizing: current square footage per seat, what courses are currently scheduled in the space
- Accessibility (for tiered rooms)
- Strategy 1: Upgrading large auditorium first; Strategy 2: “Low hanging fruit”: Rooms that only need modest investments (don’t need many permits or funding)
- Tara: More charging stations for students
- Srigouri: Replacement desks are sloped so making them less sloped
- Vishnu: Students would benefit more from larger classroom renovations
- Tyler: More blue in classrooms like Mergenthaler and fixing broken desks
- Sally Chinnis: Small classrooms that could benefit from renovation
- Srigouri: Making sure it's easy to move around and arrange furniture in smaller classrooms
- Sally Chinnis: Planning for future projects, will provide updates. Questions?
- Srigoui: What do desks look like in Shaffer?
- Lorena Permuy: Transitioning out of tablet arm chairs. Will change out furniture to more active learning
- Vishnu: Expressed gratitude
- Amynah Mithani: Want to keep the communication channel open
- End of Classroom updates
- Charles: Not allowed to share classroom updates with students yet
- Just got budget funding, starting to figure out new student orgs, re-registration process
- Srigouri: Committee Placements are done
- Emails sending out this week (possibly next week): Budget funding, new student orgs, re-registration process
- Srigouri: Do we have a location for SGA GBM?
- Charles: Student Center location!!
- End meeting