1. UNC Graduate & Professional Student
Federation
Welcome to UNC! Below is a short presentation about GPSF, what we do, and why this might be useful to you.

2. What do we do? Connect Advocate GPSF Collaborate
with graduate and professional students both socially and intellectually across disciplines.
Advocate
policies for improved campus and community resources
GPSF
In general, our mission is to advocate for the needs of the graduate and professional students at UNC. We have the means of doing so through funding efforts, administrative relationships, and connectivity throughout the entire Graduate school. We are here for you! For more information about specific initiatives, visit the GPSF website minutes at
Collaborate
to create policies that respond to the particular needs and interests of all graduate and professional students.

3. Money & Membership
Funding: GPSF’s activities are funded by the Student Government Activities Fee assessed to ALL students; we receive 25% of the fee revenues Membership: All fee paying graduate & professional students are members! Thus, YOU are able to participate in all GPSF events
Holding a position: The President and members of Student Congress are elected; all other positions appointed pending application
Every graduate and professional student at UNC can participate in GPSF activities. Everything that our organization does is funded by those $970 of student fees that you pay each semester. Since you’re already paying for it, you might as well come see what you’re paying for!

4. External Appointments
How do we work?
Legislative
Executive
Judicial
Congress
Senate
Executive Board
Honor Court
GPSF is broken down into three main groups:
Executive:
Executive Board and GPSF Cabinet
Advocates on behalf of the interests of the graduate and professional student body
Legislative:
GPSF Senate: members from all graduate and professional programs at UNC
Allocates student fees
Creates legislation that reflects the interests of the community
Judicial:
Graduate Honor Court
Academic violations (i.e. plagiarism, cheating)
Conduct violations (e.g. drug possession, DUI).
The senate needs someone from every department – you can look up your department’s senators on our website (
If your senator shows up to all the meetings, your department gets money at the end of the year (money is allocated based on department size). Departments can use this money for anything.
You can find your senator at
Cabinet
External Appointments

5. GPSF Cabinet: who to contact https://gpsf. unc
Cabinet Position
Representative
Academic policy
Robert Kurzydlowski
Campus and Personal Safety
VACANT
City and local relations
Sabrina Willard
Diversity/LGBTIQ
Gar Yeung and Lauren Townsend
Health policy
Alyse Moses-Lebron
Information technology
International student advocate
Legislative affairs
Public Relations
Megan Broad
Public Service
Andreas Jozwiak
Cabinet Position
Representative
Mentoring Chair
Rachel Tyson
Transportation
Maureen Devlin
Social Chair
Autumn McClellan
Special projects
Ashley Moody
Student Family Advocate
Katie Wouk
Student professional development
Jennifer Kernan
Student Opportunity Advocate
Manny Hernandez
Sustainability
JP Rippe
TA/RA Advocate
Matthew Haynes
If you have questions on a specific topic, you can one of our Cabinet members on the GPSF website.
**We also have several vacant Cabinet positions, so if you’re interested in being part of GPSF, please consider applying!
The application is on the front page of our website.

6. Past GPSF-sponsored social and educational events
UNC Academic
Research Conference
Socials
Service Projects
GPSF Grad Games
Socials: Seasonal socials, speed dating, ice cream social, spring social/fundraiser for Our Three Winners Trust
UNC Academic Research Conference: venue for students to present their research to the UNC community; in February
Service Projects: Habitat for Humanity, Toys for Tots, Ronald McDonald, holiday food drive
Grad Games: games for graduate students during orientation; fun get-to-know people activities – in August
GPSF forum: Open-source tool for graduate students to share:

7. GPSF Resources www.gpsf.unc.com
Student Life Resources
GPSF Newsletter
GradAlert!
GPSF Resource Guide
Funding Resources
Travel Awards
Senate allocations
Social budget
Visit for a detailed list.
Travel Awards – Available for all graduate and professional students; can use it once every 2 yrs. There’s money for about people every application cycle, and there’s usually about 30 applications per cycle. Application cycles are quarterly.
Senate Appropriations – Departments can ask senate for money for events (ex: bringing in a guest speaker or hosting a social event). Need to justify your budget well and you’ll usually get approved. Senate is more willing to fund events that are interdepartmental. Also willing to help you get in touch with other departments.
Student Life Resources –
Newsletters go out 1/month during summer, 2/month during school year – join the listserv at
***GPSF Resource Guide*** - This document has all sorts of info to help students get situated (healthcare/insurance, stuff to do in the area, financial stuff, transportation, etc.). They will get hard copies at the whole Grad School Orientation, but they can also see it online now at

8. getting involved
Your program Senator:
Cabinet:
Honor Court:
On the home page of our website, we have an “Ask a Senate or Cabinet member” suggestion box – this will go directly to a Cabinet member’s address, so that someone should be following up with you over the next few days.

9. welcome to UNC! http://gpsf.unc.edu UNC GPSF
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