GSG is pleased to announce its President-elect and Vice Presidents-elect for 2012-13. These nominees will assume their offices on May 1, 2012 and become the active leaders of Graduate Student Government at that time. Each officer’s term will be one year.
Although not required, each officer-elect served this past year in the Graduate Senate or previous E-Board. Congratulations to each Senator and future officer!
In preparation for some coming changes in the physical shape of the Library, and the levels and types of service the Library delivers, the library is conducting a survey to find out what the needs and preferences of students are in study space, furniture, and equipment. This information will allow the library to respond to immediate needs and preferences, and to help open dialog with student stakeholders from across the campus.
Graduate students are invited to complete the survey, which can be found here.
There is also a Library blog post that explains the entire project. That link is here.
GSG is pleased to announce its President-elect and Vice Presidents-elect for 2012-13. These nominees will assume their offices on May 1, 2012 and become the active leaders of Graduate Student Government at that time. Each officer’s term will be one year.
One final officer position, Vice President for Programs and Administration, remains unfilled. GSG seeks nominees for this position and will hold elections at the last meeting of the Graduate Senate, on Monday, April 23. Please contact gsg@neu.edu if you are interested.
Although not required, each officer-elect served this past year in the Graduate Senate. Congratulations to each Senator and future officer!
Attention all graduate students:
Monday is one of our most important meetings of the year! On Monday at noon, the Graduate Senate will elect the GSG Executive Board leadership for 2012-2013. It will also vote on GSG’s budget for next academic year.
This meeting will take place at 12 p.m. in Curry Student Center room 342. Please make every effort to attend this important meeting and help shape and determine the future leadership of GSG. All graduate students are welcome.
Please see the following message from the Research, Innovation and Scholarship Committee 2012 Organizing Committee
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!!
Volunteers are needed to assist with RISE:2012. Roles and Responsibilities include setup, breakdown and registration. All volunteers will receive a free t-shirt as a gesture of gratitude for their time. Please sign up for at least three slots. The deadline for volunteer registration is 9:00am on Monday March 26th. Assistance is greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
The RISE:2012 Organizing Committee
Purpose: Graduate Dissertation Completion Fellowships provide Ph.D. candidates who are nearing completion of their dissertations the support that will allow them to spend their final semester writing. The duration of the award is one semester.
Eligibility: Currently enrolled Ph.D. students at Northeastern who have completed all course requirements including comprehensive exams and dissertation proposal defense, if required, and are nearing completion of their dissertations. These fellowships will be awarded on a competitive basis.
The application will be open from March 9, 2012 and all materials must be submitted by April 6, 2012.
More information, including submission directions, can be found here.
The Northeastern University administration, Student Government Association and Graduate Student Government are in agreement that it is not in the best interest of the Northeastern community to pursue bringing Chick-fil-A to campus. It was unfortunate that we needed to come to a decision with such a short timeline, but with Curry Student Center renovations due to begin soon after Commencement, there was a need to move quickly to resolve this issue. The volume and passion of student feedback and input on this issue was integral to this decision. We look forward to working together to review other vendors.
On Monday, February 27, the Graduate Senate discussed a University proposal to open a Chick-Fil-A restaurant on campus, in light of the fact that Chick-Fil-A is alleged to have provided financial support to organizations actively opposing gay rights and gay marriage.
During this meeting, a nonbinding resolution was passed stating that the Graduate Senate “is NOT in support of the bid by Chick-Fil-A” to become a vendor on campus.
GSG also released the following statement in support of the resolution:
GSG POSITION ON CHICK-FIL-A PROPOSAL
On February 27, 2012, the Graduate Senate passed the following nonbinding resolution: The Graduate Senate is “NOT in support of the bid by Chick-Fil-A” to become a vendor at Northeastern.
This resolution followed discussion and debate about the issue. Most Senators felt, in light of Chick-Fil-A’s financial support for groups advocating against gay rights and gay marriage, that it was not appropriate to invite Chick-Fil-A onto campus, and conduct its business on this campus, because it contradicts Northeastern’s values and standards with respect to diversity and the University’s commitment to its LGBT community.
Further, it is not in the interest of the University to allow onto campus a vendor associated with these beliefs. Gay rights and gay marriage is an issue that is poised to increase in visibility in the coming years. It is not in the University’s best interests to take a position widely perceived as siding against gay and civil rights.
Since that vote, SGA has also voted against the proposal, and the University has stated that Chick-Fil-A is no longer under consideration as a future vendor.
Full details of the decision not to invite Chick-Fil-A onto campus can be found at the Huntington News here.
Attention all applicants for individual funding for a conference taking place during Period IV. Approval emails for these applications will be sent the week of Monday, March 5. Thank you for your patience.
On January 26, GSG President Keaveny outlined to the University Executive Leadership the funding needs of graduate students. GSG’s recommendations were based on the 2011-12 Graduate Student Survey, the results of which were included in her presentation. This presentation is available for download here. It is also available on our Resources page.
On Tuesday, January 24th, GSG co-sponsored a Graduate Town Hall Meeting to discuss the University’s Institutional Master Plan. This is a 10 year projection that the University will file with the city of Boston in December 2012. The meeting was open to all graduate students.
Master Plan Consultants and University Committee Officials opened the meeting by providing an overview of their ongoing work. Graduate students in attendance then participated in a discussion about the choices, preferences, and concerns of graduate students related to “space” issues such as housing, buildings, recreation, and study space. The Master Plan Consultants will use this feedback to further develop the University’s Master Plan submission for 2012.
Any graduate student who would like to express a viewpoint on the future of Northeastern’s campus is encouraged to contact the Master Plan Committee at masterplan@neu.edu.
Graduate Student Government is pleased to announced that we have launched a new Twitter account. Our user name is GSG_NU, and we have also added a “Follow” button to the GSG web site, ,where the button is located below the calendar/list of upcoming events on the right.
The feed will automatically update with announcements posted to the web site, so this should provide an easy way to keep up with our news and events. I hope all of you will subscribe; for those unfamiliar/not on Twitter, text “Follow GSG_NU” to 40404.
