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I would like to ask for public records for courses for as many terms as possible. I am requesting columns of term, college, department, subject, course name, course number, course description (the most important), (course subclass if applicable), sections, section descriptions, section subclass (if applicable), and professors teaching the sections. If possible, I would also like the textbook used for each section (a list of delimited ISBNs is great, it can be in a separate file, whatever is easiest.) If you can also include data such as locations and times, this would be helpful, but I’d like to do whatever is fastest, and the most important columns are those listed which describe the course catalog.
FOI #19-382 (11-11-19, 3:03 pm) - Subject - Law School SBA Vice President Special Election Results
Name - Student Student
Affiliation -
Upon information and belief, the Student Bar Association of the University of Connecticut conducted a special election for the Student Bar Association's Vice President from November 8, 2019 to November 9, 2019. On or about November 9, 2019, at approximately 4:52 PM, the Student Bar Association announced the ordinal ranking of the other candidates.
The Student Bar Association failed to identify, numerically or as a percentage, the vote counts for any of the candidates. Please produce any documents that identify the following:
a) the winner of the aforementioned election;
b) the proportion of students who voted in said election;
c) the number of votes received by each candidate in the election; and
d) the percentage of votes received by each candidate in the election.
Under the Connecticut Freedom of Information act, I am requesting access to all contracts for the current and previous three fiscal years between all state agencies and consultants, firms, or other private sector entities for communications-related services. This can include, but is not limited to, contracts for media relations, social media management and/or strategy, or other similar public relations-related services.
FOI #19-380 (11-7-19, 8:44 pm) - Subject - International Students in state Universities
Name - Joe Zanca
Affiliation -
I am writing a case study on the modern international student, specifically in large state universities. This will focus on the perspective of both the international student and domestic classmates
I was hoping to make a public data request of all student emails and home addresses in the school.
Line items include:
Full Name
Year of Graduation
Email
Home Address
Home State
Home Zip Code
On or Off Campus
Anything amount of this information will be helpful in my findings and research.
FOI #19-379 - Subject - RFP- MF072519 Diploma Cases and Related Products, Bid Tabulation Request
Name - Jacqueline Dauck
Affiliation -
Please let this correspondence serve as our official request to receive the final bid tabulation results upon awarding a vendor to provide the requested services. This is RFP- MF072519 Diploma Cases and Related Products.
Please send the results to collegebids@jostens.com
FOI #19-378 (11-6-19, 11:14 am) - Subject - SFAC - Undergraduate Student Government Reports
Name - Student Student
Affiliation -
I would like an electronic copy (or physical should the electronic not be available) of the last 10 years of undergraduate student government SFAC reports
FOI #19-377 (11-6-19, 11:14 am) - Subject - Undergraduate Student Government Job Descriptions
Name - Student Student
Affiliation -
I would like access to all records that have to do with posted jobs and their descriptions made by the Undergraduate Student Government. Specifically The Operations and Risk Manager, The Vice President's Chief of Staff, The Presidents Chief of Staff, the Elections and Outreach Commissioner, and the Public Relations Director. For each of the positions, I would like the description of the position as it was posted, the date that the job was posted, and the date that the job was filled.
FOI #19-376 (11-6-19, 11:44 am) - Subject - USG Emails
Name - Student Student
Affiliation -
I would like all emails sent to and from the Undergraduate Student Government Comptroller's email, comptroller@usg.uconn.edu, between August 1st, 2019 and November 6th, 2019.
FOI #19-375 (11-5-19, 2:38 pm) - Subject - Whitney Dining Hall Renovations
Name - Elizabeth Kelly
Affiliation - NECLMP
All wage determination sheets and certified payroll records relating to all work performed by Pursuit Construction for the entire duration of the project.