Graduate Student Government of Northern Arizona University

Graduate Student Government of Northern Arizona University

Regular Meeting

February 24 2014

6:00pm-7:00pm, Ashurst A109

Conference line: 928-523-9999

Agenda

Roll call and quorum, Rachel Stevens

6:00pm to 6:05pm

Call to the Audience

6:05pm to 6:10pm

Updates

Textbook campaign, Jason Kordosky

-updated course material handout, will be presenting it to faculty senate in the next few weeks.

T-shirts!! Susan Lawhead

-Finalized designs need to be done by 3/10/14, in order to have enough time to use them for current members. We would purchase them for new members as well.

6:10pm to 6:25pm

Tuition, President John Haeger

- tuiton has not been finalized by ABOR yet; once finalized, information tk.

-PLEDGE tuition for undergrads has gone up to $9,989. Trying to fall under the $10k mark for Flagstaff campus.

-tuition structure at other campuses lower due to resources available.

-GRAD STUDENT tuition recommendation to raise by 4.6% ($397) for Flagstaff. Still falls lower than undergrad tuition.

-GRAD STUDENT statewide tuition recommendation to raise by about 4.9%.

- This tuition is for 2014-2015 for graduate students, and does not affect the coverage of Graduate Assistant tuition remission.

-Numbers on financial aid website are estimates.

-ABOR tuition hearings are 3/26, 5-7pm.

Presidential Search: Sarah Bickle

-Search committee will be here 3/5-3/6 for series of stakeholder meetings. Student stakeholder meeting is from 4-5 on 3/5 at the High Country Conference Center. Students will receive 3 questions to think about before meeting. Sarah will contact GSG beforehand.

There is also a 5-6:30 campus community session the same day.

-Recommended to address graduate community and research missions of the university.

6:25pm to 6:40pm

Committee updates

Social Outreach, Susan Lawhead

- Saturday, 3/8, 7:45pm, Prochnow movie: Frozen!

-Relay for Life: 4/5-4/6. Three team members so far. Hope to hold a local fundraising raffle for the night-of.

Services and Allocations, Sean Larsen

-No updates to report. Possibly policy changes for next year. Susan has figured a way to make letters auto-populate in the mail merger. Gave out almost $6,000 this past month. According to the letter in place, there are 20 days after travel to collect funds.

Public Relations, Rachel Stevens

-Newsletter will be sent out Friday, 2/28

-FB event for Prochnow movie; everyone should join and share!

6:40pm to 6:55pm

Constituency meeting reports

-Yuma: No one came to the constituency meeting. Had fliers around campus & emails went out, fliers went in professors' mailboxes, but all efforts didn't work.

-Sean Larsen: No feedback. Short program may be the reason for this. About 30 people turned up, but no one had much to say.

-Crystal Ewen: Poor attendance due to weather issues.

-Lauren Crane: 12 people came. Issues with communicating with college. Parking is a huge issue that was talked about. About 8 of them are interested in Relay for Life.

6:55pm to 7:00pm

Bylaw Amendment S14-1, Advocacy Committee

-Passed unanimously.

7:00pm

Open Forum

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