AgendaAgenda Announcements:
Leadership Award Recipients Travel Grant Recipients
Elections:
Guest Speaker: Gayla Marty (Graduate School Dean’s office) discusses Grad School Communications
Update: GAPSA Meeting
Appreciation: Current Officers Top GA Attendees
Leadership AwardsLeadership Awards
Noelle Noonan - Music
Honorable Mentions Isaac Kamola - Political Science Robyn Skrebes - Public Policy
Travel AwardsTravel Awards Zhen Wang—Political Science
Catherine Kelly—Education
DebarchanaGhosh—Geography
Lynne Baker—Conservation Biology
Fernando Herrera Calderón—History
William Daddario—Theatre
Leah Domine—Ecology, Evolution & Behavior
Julia Rauchfuss—Geography
PresidentPresident The President is the chief
executive of COGS. The President must be accessible to all facets of the University Graduate School population and aware of the needs of and the issues relevant to graduate students.
organizes and runs GA meetings. organizes and runs Deans Meetings. represents COGS before the University administration, University organizations, and outside groups
serves as a liaison between the above mentioned bodies and graduate students
serves as a member of the Graduate School Executive Committee
officially represents COGS to the GAPSA Executive Committee.
identify, study, and attempts to resolve potential and real problems confronting graduate students
is responsible for the efficient operation of the Council
supervises all other COGS officers and office staff
Executive Vice Executive Vice PresidentPresident
Fills in for the President where needed and assists the President in representing COGS before University and non-University organizations.
fills in for the President as needed
represent COGS before University and non-University entities
act as an official liaison between University Senate and COGS
maintains a list of all committees COGS has seats on and communicates with all committee representatives that COGS has.
recruit students for non-internal committees
Vice President of Vice President of FinanceFinance
The Vice-President for Finance is responsible for all aspects of fiscal policy.
coordinates, monitors and plans fiscal policy
makes monetary disbursements for COGS
organizes and presents the annual budget
represents COGS in all matters concerning finance
maintains the COGS Endowment and dispersal of the COGS Travel and Education Grants and the COGS Leadership Awards
files taxes and other paperwork required with local authorities
works with GAPSA on the fees request
Vice President of Vice President of External RelationsExternal Relations
Responsible for printed communications to all graduate students, including the GradLetter and the Extra email list. Maintains contact with departments and DGSs. Requires usual Exec Committee time commitment, about 3 hours per month to create publications, plus other obligations as necessary.
aid in COGS recruitment activities
publish and distributes the GradLetter, the COGS Extra! electronic newsletter, and other publications
maintains communications with graduate programs and DGS
coordinates recruitment of program reps through DGS and/or program student councils
oversees COGS Leadership Award
oversees COGS sponsored functions for all graduate students
Vice President of Vice President of Internal RelationsInternal Relations
The Vice President for Internal Relations is responsible for establishing and maintaining working relations with the graduate programs and the Directors of Graduate Studies. The VP-IR is also in charge of outgoing communication to the general graduate student population from COGS.
communicate with General Assembly members outside of the General Assembly meetings
coordinate P&R Council activities
oversee COGS internal committees (ad hoc or otherwise)
oversees the preparations for General Assembly meetings
Vice President of Vice President of CommunicationsCommunications
Responsible for the COGS website and all COGS advertising (MN Daily, etc).Takes minutes at the GA meetings.
maintains and updates the COGS web pages
summarizes minutes of General Assembly meetings and Executive Committee meetings; make them available on COGS web site
documents all motions and votes at the meetings; post them on the COGS web site
updates and maintains internal documents (constitution and bylaws)
Policy and Review Policy and Review Council ChairsCouncil Chairs
Biological Sciences
Education and Psychology
Health Sciences
Language, Literature and the Arts
Engineering, Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Social Sciences
Responsibilities:Find representatives for your P&R councilHelp run workshops for COGS Attend GA and Exec meetings
SenatorsSenators The COGS Student Senators represent COGS to the University
Senate. Senate meetings are approximately once a month for most of a Thursday (from 11am until 4pm or so, depending on the agendas). Senators also represent COGS to the GAPSA General Assembly (along with the President of COGS). Senators are extremely important positions as they directly promote COGS' interests to the University at large.
Monthly Senate meetings (~5 hours)
Monthly COGS GA meeting (2 hours)
Monthly GAPSA meeting (2 hours)
GAPSA UpdateGAPSA Update Elections completed last night
Resolution passed regarding best financial practices
AppreciationAppreciation Current Officers
Bryan Gordon Eric Grashorn Matt Kaplan Andy Exley Jenny Corcoran Caroline Hilk Sarah Stoddard Eli Meyerhoff Eden Kaiser Geoff Hart Scott Johnson
Top GA Attendees Alyssa Anderson (Entomology) Angela George (HLLCL) Duane Robinson (Vet
Medicine) Tim Salo (Computer Science) RenataTicha (Education
Psychology) Andy Warta (Chemical
Engineering) Pamela Weisenhorn (Ecology,
Evolution & Behavior) Pam Wesely (Education,
Curriculum & Instruction) Xi Zhu (Sociology)