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Constitution
of the Graduate and Professional Student Government
of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
for the Student Body Constitution
Revised October 21, 1998
Passed November 2, 1998
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Authority. The Graduate and Professional Student Government (GPSG)
shall have the authority in accordance with other University policies
and procedures to provide a comprehensive representative voice on
behalf of the graduate students and graduate post-baccalaureate
students (hereinafter graduate students) at UNC Charlotte. The GPSG
exists to be the primary organization responsible for addressing the
concerns, issues, and needs of the graduate student body ensuring that
both the individual and collective interests of graduate students will
be heard and responded to by the faculty and administrative units of
the University.
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Composition. The Graduate and Professional Student Government
shall be composed of:
a. The Senate: One voting representative (Senator) from each
recognized academic graduate program (by discipline), representing
the academic graduate program and not a particular club or
committee. The Senator shall be responsible to represent the
interests of his/her graduate academic program to the GPSG and to
the University as a whole; provide a forum for discussion within this
group, of matters of concern to GPSG; and conduct business on behalf
of graduate students as authorized by the GPSG Constitution.
b. The Executive Board: The Executive Board shall include the
following officers: President, Vice President, Secretary, and
Treasurer.
c. Students: All duly enrolled graduate students are members of the
GPSG and are represented by the Senator for their academic program.
Graduate post-baccalaureate students shall be represented by the
academic program closest to their course enrollment.
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Elections.
a. Election or Appointment of Senators - Each graduate program shall select
its own method of electing or appointing its Senator to the Senate. Each
member of the Senate shall serve and vote at the pleasure of his/her
graduate academic program.
b. Election of the Executive Board - The four officers of the GPSG Executive
Board shall be elected according to the GPSG by-laws during the spring
semester.
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Powers of the Graduate and Professional Student Government. The GPSG
shall have the following powers and responsibilities:
a. to enact laws and conduct business necessary and proper to promote the
general welfare of the graduate student population.
b. to facilitate the election of the executive board consisting of a
president, vice president, secretary and treasurer.
c. to review and approve the Constitutions and/or Bylaws of all academic
graduate student organizations and to issue these organizations a charter.
d. to allocate student activity fees among chartered graduate academic
student organizations requesting funds for purposes that the GPSG shall deem
compatible with the general welfare of the graduate student population.
e. to appropriate money for its own constitutional purposes.
f. to develop guidelines for the expenditure of and accountability for the
student activity fees with which it is entrusted.
g. to establish its own meeting times, establish a Summer Government to
appropriate funds and conduct GPSG business and hold emergency sessions of
the Senate.
h. to establish and dissolve sub-committees for the purpose of ad-hoc tasks.
i. to have all powers necessary and proper for the performance of its duties
under this Constitution and the GPSG Constitution.
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