Graduate Student Government of Northern Arizona University
Regular Meeting
April 7 2014
6:00pm-7:00pm, Ashurst A109
Conference line: 928-523-9999
Agenda
Roll call and quorum, Rachel Stevens
Quorum met—Dawn & Ali absent.
6:00pm to 6:10pm
Updates
Relay for Life
- Very fun and uplifting. NAU has raised $94,000 to-date.
ABOR
-UofA is partnering with TechLaunch; tuition: NAU 5% increase across the board for
grad school. Non-resident grad students: 19,380; resident: 8,296
-Student safety committees: Wed. April 23. 4-6pm High Country Conference
Final reports in June
Center.
- Fees went up
-initiatives underway to improve AZ pre-college schools.
- ABOR will be doing a comprehensive review of fees next year
Presidential Service Award
- we received our award/certificate
SETE Task Force
- end of year student evaluation committee—Jason attended. Talk of having a
semester survey
mid-
Grad Scholarship Committee
- Dena, Amanda, Tara. 33 applications
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Student Advisory Council – Technology/Student Services
- They will come to next general meeting.
3MRP
- Next Wednesday! Ramona encourages everyone to attend.
6:10pm to 6:15pm
Elections: update and discussion about future guidelines
- Elections are underway!!! Bugs are straightened out, links are live. Art Farmer sent
Susan detailed instructions that will go into the elections binder for next year.
- executive board is staying neutral for future candidates. Recommended to discuss this
for future GSG groups
6:15pm to 6:20pm
ASA update, Anthony Hessel and Dena Lane-Bonds
**Skipped**
6:20pm to 6:25pm
Budget, Seonmin Park
- funds available to cover Western Regional & recent ABOR trip.
- receptions budget is at $1800
6:25pm to 6:45pm
Committee updates
-Social:
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- GPSAW on Wednesday. In the Studios 7-9:30. Dena will pick up catering
and key. Invite people!!
-T-shirts: we will get 100. We will have them for the picnic.
-picnic: question addressed regarding having it on the weekend, due to
transportation. Keeping the schedule as-is for now. April 26, 12-2. Need to
reserve Quad
-Travel:
-English department requesting monthly table. Seonmin will keep working
to see if this is feasible.
-PR:
-Trying to meet with ASNAU. Scheduling is tricky.
-Good feedback for newsletter. Going to keep working on making the
format student friendly.
-Policy:
-Met & talked about meeting/providing documentation for next year's
committee members.
+discussion and transitioning
University committee updates
-Parking:
-less boots and tickets.
-going to make a rental car
-still need bus drivers
-talk of making residential lots open after 4:30pm to NAU parking
passholders
-transportation fee staying $50.
-graduate student parking spots: parking services doesn't have control
about where parking lots are removed
-talk about re-working graduate stipends to help out parking fees.
Considering installment payments
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-Student Safety Committee
-mental health is included in student safety concerns
+discussion and transitioning
-Committee members should provide information for transitioning members.
6:45pm to 6:50pm
Officer and Representative transition documents
-June 1st: get GSG emails with your duties & job descriptions for your position and committee
involvement. You can also share issues with the next group. Amanda will make a template for
committee write-up.
6:55pm to 7:00pm
Call to the audience and open forum
-NAGPS call-in event this Wednesday.
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