Based on the scheduling poll, Wednesday at 5 pm seems to work the best for people. We’ll meet in Sterling B343 again. We can start by recapping the second meeting (summary available here), then moving on to mission statement and org structure drafts. All grad students are welcome to join, even if you missed the …
Thanks to everyone who attended yesterday’s meeting. From the sign-in sheet it looks like 18 people were in attendance. We came to an agreement on what we think the broad goals of the council should be: Recruiting and welcoming new students Retention and social cohesion of existing students Career development support Department communication/advocacy We then …
Based on the feedback from the scheduling poll, having the meeting Wednesday at 4:30 does a good job of optimizing for number of people who can attend, with preference given to those who were unable to make our first meeting. Sorry to those who can’t make it, there was no time that worked for everyone. …
Thanks for coming everyone. Around 30 people were in attendance, with plenty of active discussion on what the council should do and how it should try to do it. During the forum, it sounded like there’s a general consensus about the types of things a grad council should aim to do: Open channels of communication …
As you may have seen in Prof. Dasu’s follow-up email after last week’s forum, an idea was put forth to assemble a graduate student council. We wanted to start the discussion of what the council should look like and how it should be formed.The council should be a reflection of the needs and ideas of all the …