10-18-07 Meeting Minutes

Approval of Minutes

Committee Updates

Committee Availability (Nick Reynolds)

Old Business Updates

Summer Activities Reports

Approval of Minutes from last year (Chelsey)

- Minutes Approved (2^nd by Teresa)

Committee Updates

- 27x new metro bus

Committee Availability (Nick)

- Continuation on Committee

o TAPS committee continuation (Ross – Bio Molecular Engineering). They desperately need another person

o ITS committee continuation (Chris – Philosophy)

o Social Committee (Marissa Seene – Math)

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- New

o ITS (Peter – Physics)

o Alumni Council (James – MCD Bio)

o Teaching Committee & New Psych Department Rep (Carly Friedman)

o Travel Grants (Nick – Earth & Marine, Misty - Ocean Sciences)

o TAPS (Lucus – Chemistry)

o Grad Commons (Neil – Astronomy, Scout Calvert - Lit)

o Advisory to Facilities (Tamara Bell – Education)

o Learning Tech (Jay – Environmental Studies)

o Pandemic Planning + Tax Seminar (Marissa Seene – Math)

o Childcare Committee (Amy – Anthro)

- Nick reminded people that they need to come and report to the GSA to get credit for being on a committee

- Chelsey confirmed all new committee members (mentioned above)

- -Chelsey confirms Amy (anthropology), Christoph Durt (philosophy), Carley (Psych), Nick (Earth & Planetary Sciences) as new reps for their departments

Old Business Updates: CPB (Chelsey)

- CPB $600/quarter needs a rep

- Chelsey asks “If there’s an individual who’s interested they can make a proposal, but we need someone on this committee”

- Proposals regarding time commitments can be discussed – we will be flexible

EVP Report (Teresa)

- going to LA this week

- Chelsey, Jess & Teresa went to congress this summer at UCSB and met with different UC campuses

- Agenda/projects (more discussion next meeting)

- Directives: disabled students – will get survey out to UC campuses inquiring about services available to disabled students

- Parental leave – trying to get parental leave act in for grad students: 6 weeks paid leave for all grad students, right now only available to GSR & TA. Trying to push it to 10 weeks

- Voter registration (more discussion next meeting)

- CA Dream Act (Matt) – Assembly bill 540 allows undocumented students to apply for resident tuition but not financial aid. It didn’t pass this year, but Matt will continue working on this. We will email about events in the future so students can get involbved. We do have a small budget for this.

Presidential Update (Chelsey)

- thanks to new webmaster for putting forms up on the web for the Students of Color Caucus

- SB1 – asked for $13,000 for travel grants

- Glitter ball is postponed. Shane Sanchez has to postpone that because a lot of people will be out of town this week.

- Flyers on student of color conference will be going out soon (Teresa)

Funding Requests

- Jessie (Anthropology) grad student conference. Asking GSA to fund $300 “Emerging Geographies: Mapping Tracking & Tracing” & “Midnight Universe: Navigating Maps” Their budget is $3500 and they’ve raised $2000 so far. Any grad students can come to the conference, %75 of the presenters will be from UCSC. The money is for room rental fees, equipment, parking, posters. Projected attendance ~100 people (~80 at the Midnight University). The latest they could get $$ is late winter quarter

- Motion to fund $150 (Teresa) this quarter & she can come back next quarter and ask for more Pro: 19 App:0 Abs: 0

Meeting Adjourned