MEETING MINUTES- 06 OCTOBER 2014
Welcome
Introduction of Dean Laushway
Will send out information about a program called Green Dot that will be implemented during J-Term
Nomination for Professional Development Committee Co-Chair Position:
- Evan Wolfe
- Approved Unanimously
- Angela Zeigler
- Approved Unanimously
StudCo Representative Vacancy
- If interested, contact Ben and recruit people
TBD
- Event for undergrads about what it is like to go to graduate school
- Looking for four graduate students from GSAS
- Contact
Committee Updates:
- Social Committee (Nick Rich):
- Wild Wing Cafe Happy Hour with Engineering School Recap
- Went well, great participation
- Happy Hour with GBS Recap
- May put food out later because it went quickly
- May not be a good venue for an event of that size (only upstairs at Toro's)
- Halloween Party at Escafe
- October 31 starting at 9pm
- Costume contest around 11pm (before DJ starts)
- No cover
- Will have committee meetings the Mondays following general body meetings
- Smaller committee that could use additional help
- Wild Wing Cafe Happy Hour with Engineering School Recap
- Initiatives Committee (Alec Hickmott):
- Aetna Health Insurance Gap
- Sent out a google doc to reps to forward to departments to see who was affected by health care negatively
- One department had a five day gap between when coverage ended and when students are eligible again
- Might have been issues with up to 4 departments
- Have some individuals with unique situations
- Dean Barnaby, VPR, and other know about the situation
- Wanting to understand the scope of the problem before having administration involved over all departments and legal issues
- Also a degree of misunderstanding between retroactive coverage and not being covered
- External Award Policy Update
- FAQ for students to understand the external award policy
- Received draft document back from administration
- Now is in process of being revised
- Student Advocates for Graduate Education (SAGE)
- Spin-off of a previous umbrella program over all universities
- No fees to be a member
- Sole responsibility of UVa is to have one graduate student representative for the school
- 2 annual conference calls
- Summit in the fall
- In the spring is in DC and lobbies for graduate student interests
- Universities have dropped out
- Haven't found out who they were
- Topics include immigration and funding problems for research
- How to communicate about SAGE with other professional schools (besides GSAS)
- Could use StudCo or leadership listserv for communication
- Can have more than one representative
- Going forward as GSAS nominating Paul
- He will reach out to other professional schools to let them know
- GSASC exec dinner with Deans
- Stop introducing new policies and begin evaluating them to make sure they are working
- Review effects on individual departments & empower representatives to make sure graduate students are giving feedback to program DGS/Chairs
- For departments that don't have reps or smaller departments, GSASC will combine groups to have more interaction and feedback
- Aetna Health Insurance Gap
- Research Committee (Diana Dinescu):
- Upcoming Meeting
- Wednesday, October 8 at 6:30pm in Gilmore 166
- Upcoming Meeting
- Finance Committee (Danielle Racke):
- GSASC Halloween Party- $1300
- ctober 31
- Approved Unanimously
- Environmental Sciences- $700
- Annual research exhibition in January
- Approved unanimously
- Black Graduate and Professional Organization- $150
- Halloween party on October 31
- Approved unanimously
- Science and Technology Policy Career Panel- $400
- Interdisciplinary function
- Approved unanimously
- GSASC Halloween Party- $1300
Meeting Adjourned, next meeting is 11/3 in Newcomb Hall Gallery Room