GRADUATE STUDENT COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES
Shumaker Research Building, Room 139
AUGUST 28, 2013 7:15pm
Present:
Arts and Sciences
Biology-Bill Persons; Chemistry-Otome Elisha; Classical and Modern Languages- Allison Whitehouse;
English-Harley Ferris; Fine Arts-Tracy Eckersley; History-Katherine Morrison; Humanities-Sarah
Pennington; Mathematics- Heather Hunt; Pan-African Studies-Rachel Spears; Physics- James
Bougher; Sociology- Brittany Buttry-Watson; Urban and Public Affairs-Chad Frederick
College of Education
Education and Counseling Psychology- Sebastian Barr; Health Promotion, Physical Education, and
Sports Studies- Richard Tronzon; Leadership, Foundations, and Human Resources-Matthew Berry;
Teaching and Learning-Kristin Harbour
Dental School
Oral Biology-Michael Guzelian
School of Medicine
Anatomical Sciences and Neurobiology- Amanda Pocratsky; Audiology-Kara Monroe; Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology- Penn Muluhnguri; Microbiology and Immunology-Patrick Whang; Pharmacology and
Toxicology-Marcus Stepp; Physiology and Biophysics-Rebecca Murray; Speech and Language
Pathology- Candra Grether
School of Nursing
Nursing- Irene Yang
School of Public Health
Public Health- Emily Pacholski
Speed School
Chemical Engineering-Gabe Draper; Computer Engineering and Computer Science-Anala Pandit;
Electrical and Computer Engineering- MJ Negahdar; Industrial Engineering- Ehsan Khodabandeh;
Mechanical Engineering-Daniel Porter
Absent:
Arts and Sciences
Anthropology;; Communications; Geography and Geosciences; Justice Administration; Political
Science; Public Administration; Women’s and Gender Studies
College of Business
Accountancy; Entrepreneurship
Kent School
SIGS
Interdisciplinary Studies
School of Music
Speed School
Civil and Environmental Engineering
GRADUATE STUDENT COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES
Shumaker Research Building, Room 139
AUGUST 28, 2013 7:15pm
Officer Reports:
President – Jasie Stokes (gscpres@louisville.edu)
● Welcome to new representatives
○ Who GSC is: we are the representatives for graduate students to the Student
Government Association as well as University administration by meeting monthly
with the Deans of SIGS as well as serving on SGA, administrative and universitywide committees
● Overview of GSC’s mission and goals
○ We also want to build a strong graduate student community by networking
professionally and socially with each other
● Summer Picnic, Fall Events, Research Symposium
○ Picnic will coincide with graduate orientation next year
○ Working with the SAB to plan a “Night at the Planetarium” which is in November
○ No Cressman Center event this year
■ What events would you like to see in October?
○ We will have another science center event next spring as well as continuing our
collaboration with the “Day at the Downs” event
○ Research Symposium:
■ Research fund that we currently receive should be connected to Research
Symposium-->make it a competitive process with the award in the thousands
instead of the hundreds-->winning a research award requires that students
present in the Research Symposium
■ More discussion to follow-->please volunteer for the committee
Vice President – Rachel Croley (gscvpres@louisville.edu)
● Update on advocacy initiatives
■ Frankfort for face-to-face meetings
■ Representative Susan Westrom
● NAGPS Leadership Summit
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Updates on NAGPS
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Jasie & Rachel attended conference
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NAGPS dropped COBRA insurance
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Legislative Action
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Meeting other graduate councils & students
Treasurer – MJ Negahdar (m0nega02@louisville.edu)
● No report.
Travel
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Administrator – Dave Jensen (gsctravl@louisville.edu)
Updated/ simplified paperwork
New web page
New online application portal
Instant approval of travel request
Streamlining TEV approvals
Possible reformatting of funding: increases across the board
Information Chair – Harley Ferris (harley.ferris@louisville.edu)
● Made a new logo for GSC
GRADUATE STUDENT COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES
Shumaker Research Building, Room 139
AUGUST 28, 2013 7:15pm
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Created informational bookmarks for us to pass out to students so they can learn more
about GSC
Please encourage all graduate students to follow our social media sites:
■ Trying to move a lot of our conversation to our social media instead of just through
the listserv-->all reps should be following these social media outlets
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UofLGSC
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/uoflgsc
**SPECIAL GUEST FROM THE IDEA FESTIVAL**
 Kris Kimel
 Like Sundance for ideas and innovation
 Website is: www.ideafestival.com
 4 day festival with 45 events and 3 receptions
 September 24-27 at the Kentucky Center and surrounding buildings
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Old Business
● None.
New Business
● Change GSC meeting time to 7:30pm; passed.
● Table the vote to increase travel funding awards; passed.
Announcements
● Free Yoga for students! Register through Louisville.edu/healthpromotion
Upcoming Events
● Boardgame night on September 16th from 6pm-9pm at Bearno’s on Bardstown Rd.
● Ice cream social for international students with the Deans of SIGS on September 4 th.
Register on PLAN website.
● Free walking tour of downtown on September 8th. Register on PLAN website.
GRADUATE STUDENT COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES
Shumaker Research Building, Room 139
AUGUST 28, 2013 7:15pm
GSC Representative Information Form
Name:
Phone Number:
work/cell/home (bold)
ULink ID:
Preferred E-mail:
Department Name (please list full name):
(circle)
Belknap/HSC/Shelby
Graduate Program Coordinator & Contact Information:
Are you already on the GSC listserv?
YES
NO (Bold which applies)
Please list any committees you may be interested in serving:
Please list any other graduate student organizations in which you are involved (departmental,
honorary, etc.):
GRADUATE STUDENT COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES
Shumaker Research Building, Room 139
AUGUST 28, 2013 7:15pm