Election Results — Congrats to the new officers and representatives.
President: Ryan O’Mara
Vice President: Cecilia Amador
Treasurer: Kimbery Thurman
Secretary: Ann Wainscott
Graduate Council Representative: Bret Seferian
Graduate Council Representative Alternate: Aaron Rising (click to read more…)
Please join us for the last Graduate Student Council meeting of the semester at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 17 in 230 Florida Gym. The agenda will include: elections, forum wrap-up and resolutions to honor University faculty and to support the University Library Committee’s position against recommended budget cuts. Refreshments will be available.
Don’t forget the GSC Research Forum is this Monday, April 14 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Reitz Union Ballroom. Visit the website for more information: http://grove.ufl.edu/~gsc/forum/. The registration deadline is Friday, April 11 at 5 p.m. Everyone is welcome to attend.
We look forward to seeing you at the forum and at the last meeting of the semester!
1. Bill of Rights – Ranaldo Allen
The Bill of Rights was sent to General Counsel and was changed to the Statement of Principles.
At the last meeting, it was unanimously voted to not to accept the revised form.
Every change has been evaluated by the GSC Executive Board and will be sent back to General Counsel for compromise.
(click to read more…)
1. Bill of Rights — Ranaldo Allen
The steps that were laid out to approve bill of rights
a) Student Senate
b) General Counsel
c) Grad Council
d) Faculty Senate
e) Provost
Bill of Rights became Statement of Principles after review from General Counsel. Many changes were made.
Presentation of changes article by article. These changes were sent to department representatives by email and are available if you email hvz@ufl.edu. (click to read more…)
The next meeting will be Thursday, February 21 at 6:30pm in Florida Gym Room 230. We will be discussing the Bill of Rights and the changes that have been made since it went to the General Counsel. There will be a vote whether or not to accept these changes. This is an important issue, so please attend. All graduate students are welcome, and refreshments will be available.
1. The Graduate Council is looking for new graduate faculty members. Requirements: professors must have graduate faculty status and be associate professor or higher. If you know of interested parties, please email the faculty member’s CV to the GSC Graduate Coucil Repesentative, Becky Hayes at mshayes@ufl.edu
2. Just a reminder that the Graduate Forum is coming in April.
3. Bret Sefarian from GAU is collecting list of graduate groups. If you didn’t get a chance to talk to him at the last meeting, please email him at seferian@ufgau.org
4. Kevin Reilly reminded us that the Student Senate has 5 openings for graduate students. Applications due January 18.
5. Andrew Beckington – Law School
The Public Interest Environmental Conference will be held February 28-March 1 at the Law School. This interdisciplinary conference is free for UF students. For more info visit: www.ufpiec.org
6. Danielle Wilson – BGSO
March 15-22 Black Graduate Student Week
Look for workshops on Thursday, March 20 on how to write dissertation and how to get a post-doc
7. Cecilia Amador – HGSA
Hispanic Graduate Student Association will be holding elections on February 5 at 5pm. Location TBA. Email Cecilia at camadorp@ufl.edu.
8. Reminder: MOP Research Grant applications are due January 31. More info at http://grove.ufl.edu/~gsc/wp/?page_id=18
There are currently three senate seats open in the Student Government for graduate students. If you are looking for a way to be more involved in your academic community, this might be your chance. Applications are available on the third floor of the Reitz Union in Room 305 and are due by Friday, January 18 . Visit http://sg.ufl.edu for more information.
We would like to kick off the semester with a GSC Social, so our monthly meeting will occur at the Orange and Brew (in the Reitz Union) on Thursday, January 17 at 6:00pm. See what’s in store for the spring semester, then stick around to enjoy snacks, meet other graduate students, and listen to a concert following the meeting.
The dates for the remainder of the Spring Semester are:
Thursday, February 21
Thursday, March 20
Thursday, April 17
Jaquelyn Resnick – Director of UF Counseling Center
Bullying is usually verbal but usually not physical incidents. It is often a pattern of behavior.
Examples of bullying behavior: Innuendo/gossiping, excluding/isolating, underminding work of others, unrealistic expectations, not giving credit, changing guidelines/expectations, creating uncertainty, anger, yelling.
The Counseling Center sees a lot of international students with this problem, which may be due to a lack of cultural understanding.
Commends Bill of Rights
Education is needed to raise awareness about bullying,wants to educate faculty and departments.
Encourages students who feel as though they have been bullied to seek counseling, keep a log of
events, speak out if the student is comfortable doing so, or write a letter to the harasser.
Currently grievance procedure is to go to the Ombudsman who goes to Chair of Department GSC Committee on Positive Supervision goals are to focus on education rather than the grievance procedure.
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