COUNCIL OF GRADUATE STUDENTS
First Summer Quarter Meeting
Friday, July 7, 2000
3:30-4:30 p.m. 1039 Derby Hall
In attendance: President Ron Meyers, Treasurer Briggs Cormier, Secretary Christine Parker, Legislative Affairs chair Andrew Holbrook, Elizabeth Kloss, Kristen Field, Wesley Davidson (alternate for Mike Daniels), Homero Cantu, Amanda Callison.
Summer quorum (2) is met. Meeting opens at 3:30 p.m.
I. Approval of Meeting Notes of May 19, 2000. Notes approved unanimously.
II. Delegate Issues. Concerns and Discussion
Delegate terms: Discussion ensued about appointing delegates once a year, in the summer, so there will be student members in place at Senate and other university committee meetings at their first Autumn quarter meetings in October. Comments? Students may not be available during the summer to apply or be appointed. However, many student organizations elect their representatives in the Spring, so this pmposal would fit in nicely. All terms would conclude at the end of summer quarter, and new terms begin fall quarter, but elections would be held in Spring. Consensus reached that Spring elections and summer appointments would be good. President Meyers' misquote in the Lantern: he did not actually say that CGS supports the new proposed law regarding monitoring international students via registration. A correction will appear in the next issue.
III. Officer Reports
A. President
Staffing issues: Melanie Cruz and Don McClellan are no longer in the CGS office. Without a permanent replacement for Lisa Perry (former office manager), the office will be on skeleton staff for the near future. The position of office manager may be posted eventually and is the subject of continuing discussions with Student Activities and Student Affairs. CGS has requested repeatedly that the position be reposted; however, it may be some time before the position is posted and filled, if it is at all. In the meantime, we may have intermittent, part time student workers.
B. Treasurer
Budget issues: proposed 2000-2001 budget is approved unanimously. PDF budget is uncertain, as we are still seeking funds for the program, CGS budgeted $3,000 of our program funds for it. Carryover funds from the 1999-2000 academic year are estimated. International Concerns and Legislative Affairs Committees are new budget categories receiving monies.
IV. Committee Reports
A Communications
Chair Vicki Watts not in attendance. We are initialing a major move towards starting the Graduate Voice up again in an on-line format, which will save us a great deal of money. There will be a concomitant major revision of the CGS web site.
B. PDF See above.
C. Orientation
September 18, 2000 - Vice President Pommiss is in Brazil, and the office staff is non-existent, so we will need to work with the Grad School to know what will happen with orientation. Any student organization that would like to participate in the orientation should contact Jennifer Pommis at: pommis@osu.edu (please cc: President Meyers at: mevers.87@osu.edu)
D. Compensation & Benefits
Chair Phil Huckelberry not in attendance. Petitions for graduate student insurance coverage are still being collected. No deadline for submission of petitions. Office of Human Resources is still working on this; we hope to see at least partial coverage by next year, particularly in response to the G-QUE, which will be released this year.
E. Organizations & Elections -
Executive committee appmved committee appointments. Elections for Senate, RGC student representatives will be August 4. Appointees to CGS will be sent out by mail in writing.
F. Legislative Affairs
Chair Andrew Holbrook. Five students went to NAGPS Lobby Day in June, representing OSU and grad students, with support from Dick Stoddard. Issues lobbied for: Federal investment in higher education, which we argue is a public, and not a private good; the international student visa issue; the international student tracking issue. In reaction to the Ohio Supreme Court's ruling that K-12 education is unconstitutional, we fear that money will be taken away from higher education to finance public elementary and secondary education. Terms end this year, so new representatives will start in January, and they will have only six months from when they begin to come up with a new plan.
V. Old Business
VI. New Business
A. Proposed revisions to the budget - see Treasurer's report.
B. Reallocation of delegates
C. Proposed changes to CGS bylaws - First reading of the proposed bylaws. The change proposes to bring CGS' fiscal calendar in line with the rest of the university (i.e., first day of July to last day of June).
VII. Announcements
Next meeting will be held August 4, 2000, at 3:30 p.m. in 1039 Derby Hall
VIII. Adjournment
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