GSS Meeting
 Wednesday, November 14th at noon (12:00pm)
  Crawford, Room #13
  *PIZZA AND POP SERVED*

Agenda:

1.  Committee Reports and Announcements
      A. Activities
      B. NAGPS (report on national meeting)
      C. GAiNS (canned food drive)
      D. International Buddies Program
      E. VFund
      F. Volunteers needed for university committees
         i.  Commencement speaker committee
         ii. UUF Computing committee
      G. Others
2.  Formation of an Adhoc committee to assist the Dean 
      formulate the future of the CWRU Graduate School
3.  Funding issues for graduate student groups 
                      (motion #2001.09 + committee report)
4.  Current Status of the RTA proposal
5.  Continued discussion on Grad Student Health Care

Attachments:
  -Report on the Faculty Senate Grad Studies Committee
  -Motion 2000.10 for committee to assist the Graduate Dean
  -Motion 2000.09 for funding of KGSA
  -Report from Orgs&Allocs committee on funding request from Anthropology Grads
 

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Report on FS Grad Studies Committee
 -Will Miillhiser
 
As promised, here is the report from the Faculty Senate Committee on Grad
Studies Meeting, Friday, Nov 2.
 
The entire meeting focused on approving new degree programs.  
 
(1)  Clinical Research Scholars Program - MS degree in clinical research.
The committee voted and approved this new degree.
(2)  Masters of Public Health (MPH) - 5 new dual degree programs.  Scott
Frank, the MPH Director, spoke to us about new joint degrees that require
this committee's approval:  dual MA/MPH & PhD/MPH w/ Anthropology, dual
MBA/MPH w/ Business Administration, dual MD/MPH w/ Medicine, dual MSN/MPH w/
Nursing and dual JD/MPH w/ Law.  He claims the need for these dual degrees
is originating outside his department and 13 students are waiting to enroll
in these programs if approved.  The committee wanted more time to consider
each of the 5 programs before approval.  Some members are hesitant as the
dual degree structure significantly reduces the credit requirements in some
areas.
 
Jonathan Silva and I attended as student representatives.
 
Will

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Motion #2001.10

Title:  Formation of an Ad-hoc committee to assist the Graduate Dean
         with assessing the future of the CWRU Graduate School 

Sponsors: Rich Charnigo (Prez), John Martin (CorSec) 

Whereas Graduate Dean Kola has requested the help of graduate students
with assessing the state and future direction of the CWRU Graduate
School and the Graduate Student Senate wants to encourage formal
graduate student participation in this process.
 
Let it be resolved pursuant to GSS Bylaws Article II, Section E, Part 4
that an ad-hoc Committee to Assist the Dean (CAD) be formed. 

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Motion # 2000.09

Approval of GSS Funding for the Korean Graduate Student Assn
  Community Service Project

Sponsors:  GSS Student Organizations and Allocations Committee 

Whereas:      The CWRU Korea Graduate Student Assn is a recognized
              graduate student group who has applied for funding under
              Article 6, Section G of the GSS Bylaws in the amount of
              $100 for a community service project to print Korean
              language pamphlets for University Hospitals.
AND Whereas:  GSS Organizations and Allocations Committee has reviewed
              the KGSA petition for funding and found: 1. The books
              of the organization to be in good order and standing,
              2.  There is a demonstrated need for Korean language
              pamphlets at University Hospitals, 3.  GSS financial support
              needed to carry out the project, and 4.  This is the type
              of service project which the GSS might consider funding
              out of its own budget.  As a result of these findings the
              committee recommends that this funding request be approved
              by the full Senate.

Let it be resolved that:
              The Graduate Student Senate approves funding in the
              amount of $100 for the Korean Graduate Student Assn to
              print Korean language pamphlets for use at University
              Hospitals.

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Report on the Funding Request Made by Graduate Discourse: Student 
  Association of Graduate Anthropologists
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  The Graduate Discourse: Student Association of Graduate Anthropologists
(a recognized graduate student group) applied for funding in the amount
of $250 nominally for the purpose of funding food at operating lectures,
forums, and events.  By majority vote with one vote dissenting, the
Orgs and Allocs Committee recommends that the Senate should not approve
this request for funding.  
  The majority of the committee found that these forums and events
(some of which occurred in October) were not advertised in GradNews, the
Observer, or any other media that regularly reaches graduate students.
While they were nominally open to all graduate students and meant
to "share with the CWRU community valuable knowledge gained from
anthropological research" the majority of the committee did not see
these events effectively serving a need in the greater CWRU graduate 
student community.
  The committee majority feels that the priorities (budgetary and otherwise) 
of the Senate do not lie with funding refreshments for department
seminars or colloquia even if they are open to the general public,
especially when there has been no concentrated effort made to advertise
these events to the entire graduate student community.  
  We recommend that the Senate should not approve the funding request
from Graduate Discourse: Student Association of Graduate Anthropologists.
The Senate need only accept our report and do nothing further to carry
out the recommendation of the committee majority.