Keaton Miller September 29 General Assembly

Committee Meetings 1.Grants Committee 2.Finance Committee 1.Graduate Education Committee 2.Social and Academic Programming Committee 3.Communications and Internal Relations Committee 1.Tuition, Fees, and Compensation Committee

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Agenda in Brief 1.Approval of the Agenda / Call Meeting to Order 2.Approval of the Minutes 3.Officer Updates 1.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 10-11am –October 2-3pm –October 1-2pm In Elliott Hall S204 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

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 PM Goldy’s Game Room Free for Everyone

Graduate Student Happy Hours Wednesday October PM Stub and Herbs Wednesday November 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

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 GRD­designated 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

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