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September 14, 2006 Meeting – Minutes Minutes by E. Vergis
outside groups such as the Campus Community for Public Health Care. This must be added to the March 13 minutes.
4. President’s Report a. Lorin Yochim said that he would have his own style of carrying out his duties. Since, the main items on EPSGSA agenda are committee reports, he said that he would approach committee members beforehand and find out if they had any item to bring up at the meeting and if they did, those items would be added to the agenda and sent out prior to the meeting. In this way, we would not have to deal with each issue on the agenda lengthily at the EPSGSA meetings.
inclusive social gatherings. He invited the new students to come to these social gatherings, though some of them may not be convenient for them at times. He thanked Elizabeth Ocampo, Jeff Baker and Sarah Hoffman for organizing the get together that evening in Remedy Café (109 Street and 87 Avenue) at 8:00pm.
keenly involved in organizing last year’s year-end conference. Jean had hoped that the GSA could be more directly involved. Since travel grants were limited, it would be wise to make good use of opportunities for attending conferences organized here. Elizabeth Vergis added that the graduate conferences organized here should try to include the work of all Graduate Students, irrespective of their area of research. d. Greater Co-operation among Graduate Students – This was encouraged especially for the benefit of new Graduate Students joining the department.
Awards and Department-Specific Awards. Lorin Yochim intended to organize a group of students to work through the steps of what to do. The next workshop would be in October. Lorin had approached Professors in the department and some had expressed readiness to work with students on the proposals for these awards. The deadline for the SSHRC application had been fixed to October 16 and the deadlines for General Awards and the Department-Specific Awards were mid January and mid June respectively. Sarah Hoffman added that there would be reminders of these dates appearing on the EDPS List Serve.
a. Since Dan Cui was not present at the time, Lorin Yochim read the “w/ reference to agenda item #5”.
a. Guidelines to request funding from EPSGSA – Lorin Yochim said that there was no mechanism in place for dealing with requests for funding. This applies to the outstanding commitment of $150/- to Campus Community for Public Healthcare as well Candy Khan, Dan Cui, Delena Tsang, Sam Belony and Fay Green were assigned the task of designing some procedure for requesting money from the GSA. Candy queried whether some criteria had been identified for granting funding. Sarah Hoffman said that whatever suggestions the assigned group came up with, would have to be voted for at the next EPSGSA meeting, and would come into effect only then.
money to the departmental GSAs. The individual departmental GSAs send representatives to the FGSR, and the FGSR reimburses the councilors with money. This money is an important revenue for our bank account. Lorin had received the letter regarding the councilor remuneration in his mailbox only in early July, while the deadline for submitting this claim was May 25th, 2006. Lorin had not followed it up with Christy Foley as yet.
Green. iii. Grad Studies: Tara Gibb and Tejwant Chana v. Research & Scholarship: Tjewant Chana vi. Undergraduate Studies Committee: Shirley Fredeen vii. Social Committee: Jeff Baker viii. Timetable Committee: Shoba Changarathil b. Faculty Level vi. Graduate Academic Affairs Council: Delena Tsang 8. Dates for Next Meeting a. Tuesday October 10th at 4:30pm. b. Polly Madsen pointed out that 12-1pm was not an agreeable time for the EPSGSA meetings. 9. Adjournment at 5:25 p.m. |