Indiana University - Bloomington
Graduate & Professional Student
Organization
Executive Committee Agenda | February 5, 2014
“Advocating for an inclusive and empowered graduate and professional
student community”
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Approval of Minutes
o Last minutes approved.
Updates:
o Upcoming Events – (Kevin)
 Grad Café – 2/6 8:30-10:30 Grad House
 Still doing
 As before, extending it half hour before last semester’s
 Social Hour – 2/7 7:00-9:00pm Atlas
 Grad Bash/Week
 Night of Opera
 April 19-26
 Martini Night
 Still working with Theatre to do a screening
 Free yoga class
 Downtown root cellar
 More chill rather than professional-ish stuff
 Might have to move because of Little 500
 Might involve UGS recog work
 Culture of Care
 They have program called “step up” with friends helping each
other regarding various problems
o They’ll do a grad-centered workshop/event
o Mostly for branding efforts
o No $cost$
 Brady: We have announcements that seems more effective when posted
onto group sites (within schools/departments)
o Next Two Weeks: Campus Curriculum Committee, Board of Trustees, Dean of
Student Advisory Council (Brady)
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 Dave will be going on Friday
 Next Thursday and Friday
 Parking structure/operations selling might come back onto the agenda
UGS Cookie Contest Judging (Yolanda)
 Next Friday, 2/14,
 Buy-in is $5 and cookies, or be judges to partake
 “genesaqua” (however you say it in French)
 Kat is a sweets connosieur
Recognition Awards (Yolanda)
 Graduate school has one in April 21 in Frangipani
 GPSO awards too
1:1 Times (Brady)
 Ron, Olivia, Kat need to tell Brady
Newsletter Reminder (Cayla)
 Send her stuff by Wednesday, which goes out on Thursday
Liaison’s Report – Olivia
 Diversity Committee Resolution
 Team opposing “trad youth organization”
 Committee on multicultural understanding
o Writing a letter that was supposed to go against the trad
youth
o Evelyn, in committee, wants to circulate petition to show
support against org.
 Brady will send out email to _______ about lactation room, brought up at
previous Assembly Meeting
Sustainability Officer Report – Jeff
 Bringing the Fossil Fuel action items to the relevant people
 Bike resolution
 Sent Brady the final draft last week
 Basically to develop bike infrastructure
o Andrew and jeff will be talking about
 Trying to develop new foci/sub-committees (e.g. composting)
 Will be discussing ideas after passing the bike resolution
Strategic Planning – Dave
 Lots of different teams how to bring diverse students (event at same time
as January Assembly meeting)
 But all felt they didn’t know what to do once they do get to IU
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Provost gave speech about recruiting, but not retention (at a
meeting Brady went to)
IDS did a series on international/diverse students
Discussion:
o Biking (Sustainability) Resolution – Jeff
 Look above
o Partnership/Conference Grant Timelines (Josh)
 Instead of rolling basis
 Something that ExComm handles itself, other than Awards cmte.
 What’s the time frame we’re willing to accept applications?
 Like with Travel and Research Awards
 [ ] Ron look at rollover
 Yolanda: depending on when you ask, GPSO could be the 1st or last
 Ex. so far in advance then the numbers will be less accurate
 Cayla already has apps in
 Event dates not known yet
 Possibility at end of September & January to set app date
 We’ll probably get enough apps in each semester that we’ll be able
 Possibly cap money in fall then rollover leftover to spring
 Will be putting in newsletter tomorrow and mentioning at Assembly
 Friday, February 28, will be the deadline
o Assembly Preview
 (sign in?)
 VP Wimbush
 Confirmed
 Excited about coming
 Like Reeves, Olivia should come up with some questions just in
case there are “crickets”
 Bike (Sustainability) Resolution
 Officer Descriptions
 Electeds will describe more informally their positions
 Pres, vp, treasurer, liaison, parliamentarian
 Nominations/Elections Process Overview
 Brady will go over the process
 Will continue to be in the newsletter
 Officer Reports/Updates
 Dave will do one
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 Brady will talk about Josh’s stuff regarding awards/deadlines
Upcoming Programs
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Attendance
o Deb tallied up those who have been coming
Mini-Research
o Trying to determine how the assembly peeps are elected
o Maybe having a president’s council
 More of a collaborative community building
 Wants to get started this semester
 Olivia will get the most ‘major’ diversity groups to attend too
Open Floor
Committee Time
Kat
o Kristin from HR (the one who came/was mentioned last Assembly) Want to do
more informational stuff
o will be talking about end of semester and/or next year
o ex. there are still some grad students who don’t know all their
responsibilities/constraints/etc.
o maybe do one February/March, then March/April
New Assembly Room meeting
o Assembly not in Woodburn, now in Business for the rest of the meeting
o If reps really don’t like it and/or attendance severely drops, then Brady will push
back on the Scheduling peeps
(Ron laughed at Kevin’s joke “I feel like a store greeter asking ‘What department are you
from (looking for)’”?)
Walking between library/SPEA (Olivia)
o Jeff will see the options
 On a couple transportation committees, proxies go in place
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