December General Body Meeting

Monday, December 2nd 6:00pm

Newcomb South Meeting Room

Welcome
Dean Brie Gertler, Acting Dean of the College & Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
- Graduate initiatives: this year
  - Dean’s doctoral fellowship: incoming graduate students that are underrepresented minorities relative to their discipline
  - Teaching relief fellowships for graduate students to provide a semester free of TA responsibility
  - Offering financial support for recruiting graduate students
  - Dissertation fellowship [Strategic Investment Fund (SIF) money]
- Graduate initiatives: next year
  - Interdisciplinary doctoral fellowships for different interdisciplinary clusters
  - Bridge to the doctorate program to diversify the graduate student population
Updates, New, & Reminders
- Department Updates
- Thursday 12/5/19 is Lighting of the Lawn (LOTL)
  - Sip and See historical tour of the Rotunda at 3pm
  - Reception leading up to the event 6pm – 8pm
Committee Updates
- Honor Committee (Adam Huckaby & Charlotte McClintock)
  - Developing a grant for graduate students (still in the works)
- University Judiciary Committee (Kyle Chattleton & Jacob Botsford)
  - No updates
- Student Council (Jason Evans)
  - FR-1921: resolution to denounce the “watch list” of students connected to big donors (“institutional interest”)
  - Taken to a vote, passed to vote “yes” on the wording of FR-1921
- Initiatives Committee (Rob Dyer & Natalia Perez)
  - Summer gym membership – following up
  - Handbook of information for incoming graduate students – if you know if any resources, please send to the Initiatives Committee co-chairs
- Social Committee (Tyler Wake)
  - Winter Formal
    - Propose to contribute $1500 – taken to a vote, passed
    - Location will be downtown
    - Expected date January 17 or 18
- Research Committee (Shalmi Barman & Jeremy Eberle)
  - Huskey Research Symposium will be March 4, 2020
  - Huskey applications will be going out soon
- Finance Committee (Nick Scott)
  - Diversifying Scholarship Conference
    - $400 for reception (food from Food of All Nations)
    - Taken to a vote, passed
  - Jefferson Lecture by the Chemistry Department
    - $400 for reception (food from Food of All Nations and Costco)
    - Taken to a vote, passed
  - Climate change colloquium by the Classics Department
    - $200 for reception and $200 for coffee/breakfast
    - Taken to a vote, passed
  - Slavic Forum by the Slavic Department
    - $400 for UVA catering
    - Taken to a vote, passed
  - If you have funding requests, please submit!
  - Nick is leaving for Santiago next semester, so we need a new finance chair
    - Nominated MJ – voted in as the new finance committee chair
For the Good of the Order