METTA

From IKE

Contents 1 Last year's objectives 2 Suggestions 3 This year's objectives 4 History of METTA 5 Proposed timeline

Last year's objectives

• Figure out how to go through a budget (what does all of this mean?)
• True purposes of tuition increases (promises!)
  • Meeting with silcox to figure out where everything is.
• Figuring out how much of the tuition money was going to bursaries from the additional tuition (ended up being $4000 / student)
• Survey to assess family income

• Universally distributed questionnaire

Suggestions

• Research position(?)
  • interviewees
  • 4th year
  • incoming

• Keep log/database of all places to contact for OUTREACH

• Make METTA outreach earlier
• Undergraduate outreach?
• Contact smaller universities
  • When people go back home, they can go to their schools
• Prominent space for first year chair
• End of year transition instead of beginning of next year

• Financial aid
  • Talk to communities
  • Lobbying / political outreach

• Make some schedule

This year's objectives

• Get in touch with reps to
• Schulich procedures
• Contact Darla to tell her who's doing METTA

• Update financial aid package

• METTA outreach
• ~40 schools
• ~8 presentations

History of METTA

• Focus is not on the little things for the school
• Focus is more on the entire school accessibility
• Spoke and wheel approach
  • Lobbying
  • Tuition
  • Outreach to rural / poorer / lower classes
  • Filling the rural void
  • Financial aid group to collect information
  • Mean family incomes

Proposed timeline

• Transition
  • Ideal: may 1
  • Outside: May 30

• O-week package

• Outreach
  • Ideal: ~May 7
  • Outside: May 30