Career recruiting, ICE, Restaurant Week discussed at USG senate meeting

The Undergraduate Student Government discussed changes to Career Services, the Integrated Course Engine and Restaurant Week during its weekly senate meeting on Sunday night.

Executive Director of Career ServicesPulin Sanghvi began the meeting by speaking to the senate about planning a major overhaul ofCareer Services.

Several senate members said that Career Services should do more to invite recruiters from fields beyond finance and computer science.

“Our ... focus is to start putting the infrastructure in place to proactively reach out to a much broader and more diverse range of employers and alumni,” Sanghvi said.

He added that Career Services will encourage alumni to create internship and job opportunities for students within their companies.

Sanghvi said that Career Services hopes to become more feedback driven, adding that the Career and Life Vision workshops have received very positive student responses.

USG president Shawon Jackson '17 addressed the Princeton Perspective Project, an initiative to drive conversation about struggling at the University,in his presidential report.

“The Princeton Perspective Project is obviously a top priority for me,” he said.

Since its launch last week, the website has received more than 1,650 views; nearly 50 students attended the Princeton Perspective Projectopen house last Friday, Jackson said.

According to the meeting's agenda, the members of thePrinceton Perspective Projectare now planning a summit in which students, alumni and staff can discuss their personal experiences.

The USG also discussed the Integrated Course Engine, the popular TigerApps course planning system that will be replaced by Course Planner, a feature of the University’s new student portal, TigerHub.

While the University hopes to eventually incorporate most of ICE’s features into TigerHub, academics committee chairJames Baase ’15 explained that some features, such as customized color schemes and sharing features, will not be carried over.

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ICE has been maintained by Gyeong-Sik Choi ’10, who built it for his COS 333: Advanced Programming Techniques project; according to Baase, he has expressed a desire to retire the app.

While information technology chair Clement Lee '15 said the USG is trying to convince Choi to maintain the application for spring course offerings, it is unclear at this time whether Choi will agree.

Baase also discussed a recent meeting with the Faculty Committee on the Course of Study aboutpotential changes to requirements for the molecular biology concentration. He said that the Committee is considering removing two of the currently required courses for the concentration, but he declined to specify which classes would be removed.

Finally, campus and community affairs committee chair Paul Riley ’14 spoke about Restaurant Week, which beginson Monday. According to Riley, there are 18 participating restaurants, and this year, the program will also be open to Rider University students, which prompted concerns among some senate members that the restaurants may be overwhelmed.

Due to a reporting error, an earlier version of this article incorrectly stated the class year of Clement Lee. He is a member of the Class of 2017. The 'Prince' regrets the error.