From owner-grads@po.cwru.edu Wed Jan 19 14:26:25 2000 Return-Path: Received: from cornelius.INS.CWRU.Edu (majord@cornelius.INS.CWRU.Edu [129.22.8.216]) by fafnir.astr.cwru.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA15363 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 14:26:25 -0500 Received: (majord@localhost) by cornelius.INS.CWRU.Edu (8.8.8+cwru/CWRU-3.6) id OAA17991; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 14:26:13 -0500 (EST) (from owner-grads@po.cwru.edu for grads-out) X-Authentication-Warning: cornelius.INS.CWRU.Edu: majord set sender to owner-grads@po.cwru.edu using -f Received: from imo20.mx.aol.com (imo20.mx.aol.com [152.163.225.10]) by cornelius.INS.CWRU.Edu with ESMTP (8.8.8+cwru/CWRU-3.6) id OAA17955; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 14:26:08 -0500 (EST) (from RJCharn2@aol.com for ) From: RJCharn2@aol.com Received: from RJCharn2@aol.com by imo20.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v24.6.) id 3.99.602225 (3995); Wed, 19 Jan 2000 14:25:36 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <99.602225.25b769af@aol.com> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 14:25:35 EST Subject: Report from the Graduate Student Senate meeting of 19 January To: grads@po.cwru.edu CC: rjc12@arthur.ins.cwru.edu, srk5@arthur.ins.cwru.edu, exn9@arthur.ins.cwru.edu, sas11@arthur.ins.cwru.edu, bxw28@arthur.ins.cwru.edu, xxz13@arthur.ins.cwru.edu, nxm18@arthur.ins.cwru.edu, sjganocy@goodyear.com, Darin_and_Amy@msn.com, guhde@linelnt1.light.ge.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 39 Sender: owner-grads@po.cwru.edu Precedence: bulk Status: RO 19 January 2000 Attendance: Rich Charnigo John Martin Sathaporn Laksanacharoen Tom Hund Adam Majewski Katie Leonhardy Laurie McFarland David Vanik Graham Cormode Denise Rafferty Tina Smith The meeting opened with Adam Majewski's description of GSS discussions with Dean Jentoft. Several topics were brought up: the search for a new assistant dean; equity of funding across departments; work/study as an option for students receiving financial aid; the availability of information to students about grants and other forms of assistance; the V-fund; tuition taxation and the possibility of an information session for students about tax issues; Career Planning and Placement requesting guidance as to how to best serve the graduate student community; the roles of and opportunities to serve as teaching assistants; and, the electronic dissertation (still years off before being "the norm" and required). Meetings with Dean Bassett and Dean Wagner are scheduled for 26 January and 7 February, respectively. The Alumni Association will make available $2000 for an activity to be coordinated by GSS. The most likely outcome right now is a semiformal event in March or April; the Activities Committee and additional GSS volunteers will begin working on this. The International Student Buddy System --- designed to help welcome new international students to CWRU and the Cleveland area --- was briefly addressed today. GSS members received a note a few days ago detailing ideas, and today reaffirmed their support for the concept; the plan is to have the ISBS up and running for the upcoming academic year. Graham Cormode reported that an electronic mail list is being compliled so that information may be disseminated efficiently to graduate students. Several committee reports were given: * Dean Jentoft hopes to have the position of Assistant Dean filled by this May; at this point, the decision is to be made among three candidates. * The Diekhoff Committee has formulated several criteria for the selection of an outstanding graduate teacher from engineering and natural sciences. Notices have been distributed to GSS members to post and/or circulate in their departments. The deadline for nomination is 19 February, and nominations are to be sent to John Martin, jcm2. * GAINS (Graduates Allied in Service) is running a clothing drive from 28 January to 4 February. This to benefit Bosnian refugee families (who are being helped by Eastlake Schools), homeless men (at the Y-haven), and women/children (at the Miracle Village). Checks made out to individual institutions (not to GSS or GAINS directly) should be acceptable. * The Faculty Senate Computing Committee and the Undergraduate Faculty Academic Computing Committee have brought up some issues. First, the idea of merging the committees was mentioned, since their charges overlap. New software ("Blackboard") is in the testing phase; this would allow professors and their assistants to post materials online. There has been question as to whether the Micrcomputer Ownership Program might be extended also to graduate students, but this seems unlikely. Finally, John Martin is our representative to the committee appointed to find a new vice president for information services; President Auston reportedly plans to have this position filled by May. * The Faculty Senate Research Committee is preparing a letter to inquire about some taxation issues. Since it is, at times, unclear whether someone is an employed student or a student employee, there have been inconsistencies in the government's taxation procedures. Finally, there is a meeting on 29 February to work on a new Master Plan for CWRU; input from graduate students is being solicited. R. Charnigo