an action item before the faculty meeting tomorrow
i will be collecting donations from faculty members, to pay back to the
volunteer coach (a grad student) who brought two teams of uvic undergrad
students attended acm international collegiate programming contest (icpc)
regional contest on sfu surrey campus last november. due to the budget cut
in computer science, the dept won’t be able to reimburse the coach in full
this year, and our dean won’t be able to cover the balance but wanted the
students to share the cost (which i think is unreasonable, given the time
and effort they and the coach have already put in to represent uvic)
so i have to ask our faculty members to help and donate as you see fit, no
matter big or small. we are about $350 short of paying back to the coach,
who has been waiting for the reimbursement for almost two months. but if
we raise more money, we will save for the competition next year, and i
will ensure your money is used responsibly. sorry we have to ask you to
open wallet again, but i think supporting students is more important
i will arrive ecs660 about 5 minutes earlier. since i have teaching in the
afternoon, i will have to leave earlier. if you want to donate after the
meeting, please give it to michelle. if you are not able to attend the
meeting, please drop me an email and i can collect at the time/location
convenient for you. any help helps. thanks a lot