February General Body Meeting

Monday, February 3rd 6:00pm

Newcomb South Meeting Room

1. Welcome

2. Updates, New, & Reminders

   • Alderman Library

     • Background and history on Edwin A. Alderman by Matthew Frakes (History Department)

     • Reconvene next month on whether to support a renaming of Alderman Library during its renovation

   • LiveSafe App

     • Available on iOS and Android

     • Allows anonymous reports to university and community police; maps of blue lights; walk a friend home or walk you home via GPS coordinates; reports from the university

   • Student Health Insurance Update

     • Aetna increased reimbursements for in-network providers and decreased the copay for out-of-network providers for mental health services

     • Visit CAPS website for more information and updates for mental health providers accepting new patients

   • Public Service Week: March 23rd – 28th

     • First annual event to show support for the Charlottesville community

     • Submit events

     • Information available here: https://engageduva.virginia.edu/public-service-week  

   • Library/LEO call for updates

     • Issues

       • Turnaround is much slower, from 2-3 days, currently 2-3 weeks

       • Instead of ILL requests are now sent as recalls

       • ILL times have reduced from 3 months to 1 month

       • Some ILL loans are just being cancelled without notification

       • Will work on getting in contact with a library representative

   • Board of Visitors Student Member Application

     • Application is live, due February 5th at 11:59PM

     • Application here: https://vpsa.virginia.edu/student-member

     • Speak with Derrick Wang (current student member)

   • Department Updates

3. Committee Updates

   • Honor Committee (Adam Huckaby & Charlotte McClintock)

     • Honor research grant for community building, call for proposals coming soon

   • University Judiciary Committee (Kyle Chattleton & Jacob Botsford)

     • Bylaws and amendments passed, but will not be official until the university election

   • Student Council (Jason Evans)

     • FR-1921: resolution to denounce the “watch list” of students connected to big donors (“institutional interest”) — was passed by Student Council

     • UVA Community Food Pantry in Newcomb open to all students (Mon. – Thurs. 9am-11pm; Fri. 9am-6pm; closed Sat.; Sun. 12pm-9pm); visit https://pantryatuva.org/ for more information

     • If there are any ideas to bring up to the Student Council, please contact Jason

   • Initiatives Committee (Rob Dyer & Natalia Perez)

     • Draft of graduate student guide to the university

     • Draft of cheat sheet of graduate schools and IM-Rec

     • Information on taxes for international graduate students – no such help exists currently

   • Social Committee (Tyler Wake)

     • Winter Formal

       • Successful, came in under budget

       • Attendance was above 300

   • Research Committee (Shalmi Barman & Jeremy Eberle)

     • Huskey Research Symposium will be March 4, 2020

       • Received 38 applications, will be reviewing with faculty this coming week

       • Workshop by PhD+ on how to give a talk

   • Finance Committee (MJ Nilayamgode)

     • Funding requests

     • Environmental science department research symposium, $400 for lunch and reception catering – February 28

       • Passed

     • Huskey Research Symposium, $8150 total budget, support from GSASC is $1300 to cover catering, bar, and office supplies; other funds are from the Office of the Associate Dean, $3000; $3850 from Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs (honorarium speakers, poster printing, etc.)

       • Passed

     • If you have funding requests, please submit.

4. For the Good of the Order