From owner-grads@po.cwru.edu Wed Feb 16 16:17:08 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 QAA02920 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 16:17:07 -0500 Received: (majord@localhost) by cornelius.INS.CWRU.Edu (8.8.8+cwru/CWRU-3.6) id QAA01873; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 16:16:59 -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 imo14.mx.aol.com (imo14.mx.aol.com [152.163.225.4]) by cornelius.INS.CWRU.Edu with ESMTP (8.8.8+cwru/CWRU-3.6) id QAA01809; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 16:16:53 -0500 (EST) (from RJCharn2@aol.com for ) From: RJCharn2@aol.com Received: from RJCharn2@aol.com by imo14.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v25.3.) id 3.b8.2144bbc (4229); Wed, 16 Feb 2000 16:16:13 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 16:16:12 EST Subject: Report from the Grad. Student Senate meeting of 16 February 2000 To: grads@po.cwru.edu CC: 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 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 Attendance: Rich Charnigo Denise Rafferty Gail Bromley Karen Tucker Laurie McFarland Adam Majewski Graham Cormode John Martin Raja Ghanem Dan Kerr The meeting opened with Adam Majewski's mention that the search for a new assistant dean of graduate studies is well underway; in particular, three candidates are to be interviewed for the position come March. Several items were reported about activities: GSS will be a sponsor of the 2000 Springfest, to be held on 29 April. Plans are being made for a social dinner/dance to be held on 22 April. Karen Tucker was nominated and chosen to be a speaker for the Spotlight on Women lecture series; Gail Bromley was selected as the alternate. The GSS approved the idea of an Orientation Community Service Project (targeted to incoming students but open to anyone) for next year. Participants would get a trolley ride through different communities in Greater Cleveland for a bit of sightseeing and then would help out with a service project. Discussion was held about (separate) meetings with Dean Bassett (arts and sciences) and Dean Wagner (engineering). Issues that came up were equity of funding and taxation of tuition, which have been areas of concern for GSS throughout the year. Raja Ghanem presented a detailed written summary of the latter meeting. Finally, several committee reports were offered. Diekhoff (Graduate teaching award): 7 nominations have been received so far, and any others must be made by the end of this week (19 February). V-fund (For dissertation bindings and conference expenses): There have been 3 applications so far; the deadline is 1 March. Budget: Tuition will be raised 4.7%, ahead of the rate of inflation. One reason given was that the dormitories were to be upgraded. VP for information services search committee: The position is to be filled by summer; the committee is already looking at resumes. Graduate Studies: 1. A new program in exercise physiology (physiology/biophysics) was approved. 2. The electronic dissertation issue is heating up, with a "stakeholders" meeting planned for the near future; anyone interested should attend (upon the announcement of date and time), but the present plan does not call for a well-publicized all-campus forum. Some concerns with the electronic dissertation are the property rights (who owns the dissertation?), issues of prior publication, and access to technical support. [Comments/concerns about this issue may be brought to Dan Kerr, drk9.] GAINS: Right now it looks like there will be about 20 participants for the Habitat for Humanity service day. An issue raised was that of the safety of volunteers; in a previous experience, participants felt threatened by rogue elements of the community. Health Care: The amount of money allocated for mental health care seems to be inadequate, and whether to expand the funding (and by how much) has stirred debate. It has been proposed to raise the lifetime allocation for inpatient mental health care from 20K to 250K, and to change the prescription allocation from 5K to 4K / year. R.C.