Division of Academic Affairs
Campus Life and Student Support Services
ASG MEETING AGENDA/MINUTES
Monday, February 9, 2026
Zoom Meeting Room
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Morgan B. Whited, ASG President
Bushra Zaman, ASG Vice President
Chimezie Finian Nwadinigwe, ASG Representative Coordinator
Dr. Stephanie Gardner, Chief Academic Officer & Provost
Dr. Kristen Sterba, Assoc. Provost for Students & Admin., Director, Department of Institutional Research, Policy, & Accreditation, Associate Professor
Nakia Dedner, Director of Campus Life and ASG advisor
ASG February meeting minutes:
The meeting was held both in-person at the Student Center and on Zoom. Pizzas were available for lunch. The meeting started roughly at about 12PM.
Morgan B. Whited: Opening remarks about the previous events, trivia night being a success and being well received by students, and remarks about softball.
Ms. Kayleigh Crutchfield: Speaks about events, asks representatives for input about events. Chimezie Finian Nwadinigwe asks about preferred locations being inside or outside. Representatives nod, mention preferring events inside. General opinion about events being conducted within UAMS or outside of UAMS varies among representatives. Ms. Crutchfield passes out a survey regarding student center to representatives, asks them to fill it up when possible during the meeting. Survey asks about student center facilities and future event ideas. Representatives mention some students in their college have families and how child-friendly movies might be a good idea. Ms. Crutchfield mentions how some international students may have difficulty reaching venues located outside of UAMS due to transport issues. However, she also mentions that in the past, movie nights inside UAMS have not done as well as outside UAMS, and asks representatives for their opinions. Morgan asks about pickleball as a potential sports event and refers to Top Golf as well. Representatives nod and say both will be well received by students.
Morgan B. Whited: Speaks about student health insurance verification deadline. Representatives ask about the health insurance verification link not being received. Bushra Zaman tells representatives that she can email the link to them and she had issues finding it in the beginning too. Ms. Crutchfield says it is on the UAMS app. Morgan asks how students should look for the app and if students should just search for it by typing in UAMS. Ms. Crutchfield says yes. Ms. Dedner mentions how roughly 16,000 students are yet to verify their health insurance verification and that the office will begin to be stricter about it. She adds the link in the Zoom chat.
Morgan B. Whited: Mentions questions Dr. Storrie asked her to ask representatives. The questions were mainly regarding movie night preferences. Morgan asked representatives if they had specific movie preferences, preferred timings, and location. Chimezie Finian Nwadinigwe mentioned about also specifically asking whether movie nights inside or outside are preferred.
Morgan B. Whited: asks about the date for the next meeting being March 9th and if students would be available, knowing that is around when spring break is scheduled to start and that different colleges have different times off. The representatives discuss their schedules and say that March 9th looks good so far for the meeting. Bushra Zaman asks if the representatives like the hybrid set up for the meeting.
Morgan B. Whited: Thanked everybody for attending both Zoom and in-person and thanked everybody for their feedback. The meeting ended at roughly 12:35PM.
The next ASG Meeting is:
Monday, March 9, 2026, at noon