Graduate and Professional Student Government

Minutes of Senate Meeting November 13, 2000

Attendees:

Senators: Jennifer Birkenhauer (Biology), Kenisha Free (Criminal Justice), Lynne Mathis (Counselor Education), Lance King (Engineering Management), Jason Clark (Electrical Engineering), Stephen Eisenbies (Mechanical Engineering), Jason Schelle (History), Andrea Moshier (Public Administration), Ping Mao (Sociology)

Members: Emily Alexander (Biology), Harold Hearve (Electrical Engineering), Erin Pushman (English)

Approval of Minutes of October 30, 2000 meeting

Motion to pass by Andrea, seconded by Jennifer

Old Business:

• Liz announced that the happy hour had a pretty good turnout. Those who came had a good time.
• Liz reminded everyone of the travel awards that are available through GPSG by application which can be found on our web-site.

New Business:

Meetings Next Semester

Liz asked for everyone’s input on the day and time for our meetings next semester. We decided tentatively that Thursdays at 4:30 would be a good time for everyone. The room will be announced at a later date. We anticipate our first meeting the week after classes start, which means the schedule would be as follows:

January 18^th March 15^th

February 1^st March 29^th

February 15^th April 12^th

March 1^st April 26^th

Research Fair

Jenn asked for everyone’s input on how to divide the disciplines into categories for the research fair. We want to announce the fair before Christmas Break and would like to give as much information as possible.

She proposed two options:

A.)

1.) Physical Sciences/Engineering/Math/IT

2.) Everything Else

B.)

1.) Physical Sciences/Engineering/Math/IT

2.) Professions other than those above (ie. Business, Nursing, Education, Architecture)

3.) Humanities and other

Everyone agreed that option B. sounded the best. The research fair will be held on Saturday, April 7^th. Presentations will be approximately 10-15 minutes with Q&A. Prizes will be given for 1^st, 2^nd, and 3^rd place in each category in the amount of $500, $300, and $100 respectively.

Rechartering

Liz reminded everyone that all organizations must recharter to get funded for the following school year. The deadline for rechartering is the third Monday in January, however, this date falls before our first meeting next year, so the deadline has been extended to the fourth Monday in January—January 22^nd. Any new organization who wants to be funded next year must charter by this deadline also. Rechartering forms can be downloaded from our website. More information and reminders are forthcoming.

We broke out into committees for the remainder of the meeting.