October General Body Meeting

Monday, October 14th 6:00pm

Newcomb South Meeting Room

1. Welcome

2. Harold Goss, Director of Collections, UVA Library

   • Graduate student access to resources during Alderman renovation

     • Graduate students will have access to everything that was accessible before

   • Popular books will be placed in Clemons Library

     • Many books will be shipped to Ivy Stacks (similar to a storage facility)

   • The library will begin offering LEO-type services for graduate students for books that will be moved to Ivy Stacks

     • Turnaround is, on average, 3 to 4 days

     • There is no fee for this service

   • Beginning November 25, 2019, interlibrary loan services will be suspended, since the office is relocating from Alderman to Ivy Road

   • Beginning December 18, 2019, LEO services will be suspended

   • Interlibrary loan and LEO services will resume on or around January 8, 2020

3. Nicole Ruzek, Director of Counseling and Psychological Services

   • CAPS team – all are confidential employees, not mandatory reporters

     • Psychotherapists, clinical care managers, psychiatric providers

     • Primary mental health clinic on Grounds

     • Can help with (not an exclusive list):

       • Stress/anxiety; depression/mood; struggles with adjustment/transition; eating disorders; substance use disorders; transgender healthcare

     • Offered services

       • Counseling services — individual and group psychotherapy

       • Psychiatric services

       • Care management services

       • Crisis services

       • MiResource — online therapist referral database

       • SilverCloud — online self-help modules

       • Outreach and prevention services

     • Costs: no costs for visits

     • Location: corner of Jefferson Park Ave. and Brandon Ave.

4. Tre Tennyson, Graduate Affairs Committee Chair

5. Updates, New, & Reminders

   • Department Updates

     • English Department — looking for opinion on changing the name of Alderman Library

   • Academics and Social Media event — November 12, 2019

   • Feedback on graduate student health insurance

     • Link to come out on October 2019 monthly email

   • Graduate Legislative Affairs Committee

     • Interest form link to come out on October 2019 monthly email

     • Planning trips to visit Richmond or Washington D.C. to talk with politicians

   • Graduate Student and Professional Council

     • GPC article on health cost payments — response to penalization of late payments

     • Healthcare Town Hall — October 16, 2019 at 7pm in Nau 101

6. Committee Updates

   • Honor Committee (Adam Huckaby & Charlotte McClintock)

     • Updating internal disciplinary hearings

     • More representation for non-degree seeking students in Honor

     • Popular assembly November 6-8, 2019

       • Coffee and doughnut chats for Honor feedback

       • Debates with Jefferson Debating Society

       • More information to come

   • University Judiciary Committee (Kyle Chattleton & Jacob Botsford)

     • Potentially changing bylaws for first year judiciary committee

     • No other updates

   • Initiatives Committee (Rob Dyer & Natalia Perez)

     • Scheduled committee meeting for later this month

     • Still working on reimbursement for fee for gym access during the summer

   • Social Committee (Tyler Wake)

     • October 19: partnering with Alumni Association for GSASC tailgate takeover

       • Tailgate starts at 12pm-3pm

       • More information in October 2019 monthly email

     • October 31: Halloween party, 8pm-11pm

       • Costume encouraged

       • At Boylan Heights, reserved 2nd floor

       • More information in October 2019 monthly email

     • December 5: Lighting of the Lawn

     • Carter Mountain Orchard trip

       • Everyone who went had a great time

     • We have a Facebook page!

   • Research Committee (Shalmi Barman & Jeremy Eberle)

     • First meeting occurred

     • Preserve Huskey Exhibition format from last year

       • Short talks

       • Have it earlier during the spring semester

       • Focus on professional development and improve the presenter’s skills

       • Ideas

         • Give presenters the option to have their talk recorded and posted online to increase visibility and to promote open access

         • Give presenters the option to post their slides online either at gradcouncil.com or the Open Science Framework (OSF)

         • Add workshop for science principles; reproducibility; transparency; sharing data

           • Could reach out to the Open Science Center

           • Could be for presenters and/or the general student body

       • Goal: be most beneficial for graduate students

   • Finance Committee (Nick Scott)

     • First meeting occurred

     • Funding Requests

       • Halloween party

         • Full budget ~$3000, requested from GSASC is ~$1500 for drink tickets

         • Funding request approved

7. Student Council Representatives [Elections]

   • Jason Evans (Religious Studies) nominated — was elected

     • Congratulations Jason!

   • One spot still open

8. For the Good of the Order