Keaton Miller

September 29General Assembly

Committee Meetings

1. Grants Committee

2. Finance Committee

3. Graduate Education Committee

4. Social and Academic Programming Committee

5. Communications and Internal Relations Committee

6. Tuition, Fees, and Compensation Committee

Announcements…

Agenda in Brief1. Approval of the Agenda / Call Meeting to Order

2. Approval of the Minutes

3. Officer Updates1. Vice President of Grants

2. Vice President for Finance

3. Council of International Graduate Students

4. Graduate Education Council Report

5. Vice President Communications

6. Vice President of Internal Relations

7. Execute Vice President

8. President

4. University Required Constitutional Amendment

5. Changes in Graduate Assistant Healthcare Plans

6. Resolution on Washington Team Playing

7. Fees Consultation Resolution

8. Elections

OFFICER REPORTS

Vice President of Grants

• Introduction of New Grant Programs• Grant Committees

Vice President of Finance

• What is GAPSA?• GAPSA Undergoing Audit• GAPSA Budget Challenges• GAPSA Constitution and Bylaws• Financial Reporting System for COGS

Council of International Grad Students Update

• Fall Social on Saturday – 45 in attendance

• What I Wish I Had Known as a Grad Student

Graduate Education Council

• GRADS First Meeting Report• Teaching Assistant Expectations• Graduate Student Bill of Rights• Academic Freedom and Tenure Report

Bill of Rights

• Focus groups next week!– October 7 @ 10-11am– October 8 @ 2-3pm– October 9 @ 1-2pm

In Elliott Hall S204

• Register @ z.umn.edu/studentrights

Grad School Events• Many options for free workshops:

– CTL– University Libraries – Grad school– DASH– Student senate, SSFC– Boreas Leadership program– Preparing Future Faculty

• Discovery Across Disciplines, Oct. 16, 2-4pm• GPEA, April 2015

Vice President of Communications

Vice President of Internal Relations

• Paint the Bridge• PageStageEngage• Welcome Week• Happy Hours• Bowling Nights

Vice President of Internal Relations

• Paint the Bridge

Vice President of Internal Relations

Vice President of Internal Relations

VP Internal Relations

• Page.Stage.Engage. Spoken Word Performance with Guante and Tish Jones. $100 COGS investment, 225 attendance

Welcome Week

• First Ever• $300 COGS investment• Estimated ~3000 attendance• Arboretum Tour, Brewery Crawl,

Tailgate and Football Game, Concert, Kickball

• Next steps

Family and Friends Bowling Night

• Tentatively: Friday, October 18 7-10 PM• Goldy’s Game Room • Free for Everyone

Graduate Student Happy Hours

• Wednesday October 15 5-7 PM Stub and Herbs

• Wednesday November 12 5-7 PM Stub and Herbs

Dear White People

Monday October 13 in Coffman Memorial Union

Open Committees

• (A) Survey• (B) Academic Freedom and Tenure• (C) Student Health Advisory Committee

(SHAC)• (D) Graduate Student Survey

Committee

President: Tuition Freeze

• Proposed, contingent on legislative approval

• Funding from legislature goes to colleges, which follows per student to cover cost of 3% tuition increase – so there is no impact on collegiate dollars

President: Fee Freeze & Change

• No new increases in fees last year (yay!)

• Deadline moved out without graduate consultation (before first GA paycheck)

• Secured a waiver of the installment and late fees for grad students for first pay period

Constitutional Change

Constitutional Change

• Reason: requirement from Student Affairs defining membership as being at least 2/3 students

• Section 4. “All voting members of the Council of Graduate Students must be GRD designated students maintaining active student status at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities.”

Grad Assistant Healthcare Plan

Discussion: Changes in Grad Healthcare

• Contract re-negotiated for next year• Drivers of increased costs are out of

network• Possibly increased co-pays, network

scope, fringe burden• Alternatives, feedback

Resolution on Washington Team Playing

Document on FTE / GRD 999 Students

Elections

SENATOR

Senators are elected from the graduate student body to serve as voting members on the Student Senate, the University Senate, and the GAPSA General Assembly. The number of senators varies from year to year (between ten and five) Because of the timing of these meetings, it is entirely possible to ‘split’ the position into Senator and GAPSA GA Rep.

Elected: at the April/May GA meeting. Term begins/ends on June 30 th

Routine duties include: attending Student Senate meetings, University Senate meetings, and GAPSA General Assembly meetings; communicating topics to the general assembly of COGS and results back to it, attending COGS general assembly meetings; notifying the Executive Vice President of necessary absences.

Optional duties include: attending COGS executive board meetings; participating in COGS-sponsored events; serving on Senate committees.

The Executive Vice President serves as the head of the senate ‘slate’ and is responsible for organizing communication between senators.

Senators may also serve as College Delegation Leads.

Estimated Time Commitment: 4-6 hours monthly at routine meetings

Announcements…