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Welcome to the first Fall General
Assembly!
2014-2015
GSS Executive
Committee
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Assembly
Aug 27, 2014
• Officers of the Senate
• School Executives
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President, Queenie Cheong
– Arts & Sciences, Shu Situ
Vice President, Raymond Horton
– School of Engineering, Brylee
Tiu
Information Officer, Marzieh Ayati
– School of Medicine, Deoye
Treasurer, Francis Enane
Tonade
Secretary, Doug Brubaker
– Professional Programs, Chantal
van Esch
• GSS Committee Chairs
– Activities, Courtney Diener – GPC Liaison, Neetu Guulati
– Health and Wellness Chair, Wedad Almutairi
– Mentoring and Diekhoff Chair, Chaturia Rouse
– Professional Development Chair, Elise Blankenship
– Organizations & Allocations Chair, Tirth Bhatta
Announcements
Elizabeth R. Click, ND, RN, CWP
Medical Director
Case Western Reserve University
• Tobacco Free Campus Policy and
Implementation Plan
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Announcements
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Announcements
Senator Workshop
• 9/10 5-7pm Toepfer Room, Adelbert Hall
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Introduce Yourself
• Stand up and find 2 students
close by
– Name
– Department
– GSS affiliation (grad student,
senator, committee chair, school
exec, etc.)
– Favorite music
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Mentoring and Diekhoff
Committee
• Diekhoff Awards
• Collaboration with other committees
• (Professional Development Conference)
• Potential mentoring activities
• Contact: Chaturia Rouse, chair
[email protected] 770-851-7317
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Professional Development
Committee
2014-2015
Committee Chair: Elise Blankenship
[email protected]
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GSS PDC 2014-2015
• 2013-2014 Activities
– Personal Skills Conference
– Professional Skills
Conference
Over 100 students and
postdocs attended each
conference!
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• This Year’s Goals
• Conferences
• Day-long events
• Workshops/Events
• 1-2 hour long
presentations, panels, and
networking events
• Prof Dev Center
• Continue to work with the
university administration
on the potential new center
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GSS Activities Committee
• Committee Chair: Courtney Diener
• Email ID: [email protected]
Activities Committee
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“The activities committee plans social and community
service events for all graduate students. Some of the
events happen right here on campus, allowing
graduate students to participate in some of larger
university events together such as Case for
Community Day, Relay For Life, and the Hudson
Relays. Other events provide students with the
opportunity to see a little more of the city and enjoy
their time in Cleveland, while simultaneously
providing an avenue to develop friendships with
students outside individual departments”
My goals for the
committee:
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• Create events that encourage all graduate students to
have the opportunity to have fun, relax and meet
other students
• Have GSS host events that connect graduate
students to the CWRU and Cleveland community
• Support a variety of programs and events that
engaged many different students who have a variety
of interests
• Continue to build on past events that have been
successful while finding ways to continue to be more
engaging
• Continue the professional collaboration with GPC
and other groups and departments in events
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GSS Student Organizations and
Allocations Committee (O&A)
• Committee Chair: Tirth Bhatta
• Email ID: [email protected]
What it does?
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• Help establish and provide recognition to graduate
student initiated organizations.
• Provide training to graduate students holding a
leadership position in their organizations.
• Allocate funding for events organized by student
organizations.
How can you
participate (and
help!!)?
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• Becoming a committee member.
• Setting up your own student organization (e.g.
cultural, academic).
• Encouraging your friends in your departmental
organizations to get GSS recognition.
• Organize events (e.g., departmental or interdepartmental) and use resources available to you!!.
What do you benefit?
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• Opportunity to go (even further!) beyond your
classroom experience.
• Learn how organizations function.
• Establish your own organization (in the future!).
• Gain additional experience necessary for holding
executive positions at GSS next year.
• Enrich your CV!!
• Network and promote cross-disciplinary interactions.
Intergovernmental Task
Force on Unification
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June 25, 2014
– Task force to discuss issues, strategy for possible
unification between GSS and GPC
– If interested in being on the task force or want to ask
questions, voice your concerns, contact me!
• Contact info: GSS-GPC Liaison Neetu Gulati
[email protected]
GSS Task Force on Travel
Funding
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Goals:
– Develop strategies to fundraise for additional graduate student
travel resources.
– Identify internal and external opportunities for growing the V.
Fund endowment.
Looking For:
– Anyone with ideas, suggestions, or concerns about funding
opportunities available for graduate student travel.
– Graduate students with experience fundraising, familiarity with
current funding sources (such as the V. Fund), or both.
• Interested? Contact VP Ray Horton [email protected]
Task Force for Student
Stipends
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Steffany Homolka, [email protected]
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Increase transparency around student stipends
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Identify and address stipend concerns and inequities
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Programs with very low and/or time-limited stipends
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Programs with stipends that are not competitive with programs of similar prestige
• Plan (see handout)
• Task Force Formation
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If interested, please sign up!
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Call for task force members to go out soon. Please forward this on
to your constituency.
Your Voice in Faculty
Senates
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• Faculty Senate Committee on Information and Communication
Technology (FSCICT)
• Faculty Senate Committee on Minority Affairs
• Faculty Senate Committee on Research (3 students)
• Faculty Senate Committee on University Libraries
• Faculty Senate Committee on Graduate Studies (3 students)
Please contact Vice President Ray Horton ([email protected]) if interested.
Your Voice in University
Committees
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Parking Advisory Committee
University Health Services
Collegiate Behavioral Council
University LGBTA Committee
College of A&S Graduate Committee
College of A&S on Educational Program
Plan Action Committee
Share the Vision Committee
President’s Advisory Council on Women
President’s Child Care Committee
Please contact Vice President Ray Horton ([email protected]) if interested.
Your Voice in University
Committees
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Graduate and Professional Student Experience Committee
Martin Luther King Advisory Board
University Budget Committee
Case School of Engineering Graduate Studies Committee
Sexual Harassment Panel
Advisory Committee on Research Computing
Information Technology Services Planning & Advisory Committee
Wiser
Staff Advisory Council
Commencement Speaker Committee
Diversity Leadership Council
Please contact Vice President Ray Horton ([email protected]) if interested.
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2014-2015 Budget Proposal
Treasurer Francis Enane
2013-2014 GSS Finance
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2014-2015 GSS Budget
Proposal
$ 7500 Executive Budget
$ 4100 Senate Operations
$ 1000 College of Arts & Science
$ 7000 Professional Development Committee
$ 1575 Mentoring Committee
$ 500 School of Medicine
$ 500 Professional Program Executive
$ 22000 Activities Committee
$ 13200 Organization Allocation
$ 200 Health and Wellness
$ 630 Engineering
$ 300 GSS-GPC Liaison
Total Budget Request 58,505.00
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Rollover from last year
$24000
Expected Income from Students
Activities Fee
$44000
Budget Request
$58505
Invest in V-Fund Principal
$9495
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Now it’s time to think about initiatives/ plans for the year.
New Business
• New Business
– Comments on the Year?
– Announcements?
• Motion to Adjourn?
– Second?
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