GSC talks proposals addressing food insecurity, new ASSU joint committees
Debates over potential solutions to combat graduate student food insecurity dominated the Graduate Student Council (GSC) meeting on Wednesday night.
Category: Student Government
Senate passes three bills in final meeting of the school year
The three bills request Hoover’s inclusion in the University’s IDEAL survey, restructure ASSU joint committees and implement the amendments passed by the student body in the spring election.
21st Senate passes first bill on committee reform
The 22nd Undergraduate Senate passed its first bill to reform Senate’s standing committees’ bylaws. Senators also discussed a new bill introduced by Senator Jonathan Lipman ’21 which would request that the Hoover Institution be included in the Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access in a Learning Community (IDEAL) dashboard.
GSC appoints officers, revisits subleasing concerns
GSC finalized several officer positions and discussed concerns relating to recent wait times for summer subleasing requests.
Senate discusses committee reform
The bulk of the third meeting of the 21st Undergraduate Senate was spent discussing a bill that would reform the current standing committee system of the Senate, which organizes senators into specific committees focused on various issues. The meeting itself was kicked off with a half-hour closed meeting between senators and Financial Manager LoMo Phillips…
GSC talks advisor relationships, elections and grad student block party
The first meeting of the 2019-2020 Graduate Student Council (GSC) reflected on the year’s successes before looking to the future with elections of officer positions, announcements from R&DE regarding summer plans and a discussion of academic advisors and their role in the graduate school.
Senate discusses committee reform, continues in-house elections
At its second meeting of its term, the Senate discussed a bill that would strike the standing committees and completed several housekeeping items.
GSC addresses SU Press defunding, graduate healthcare, support for Yale community in final meeting
The final meeting of the 2018-2019 Graduate Student Council (GSC) reflected on the past year while keeping an eye to the future. The Council approved a non-binding resolution on graduate student healthcare affordability, continuing year-long advocacy efforts to improve graduate student health and mental health, as well as discussed the role of the Stanford University…
