Rutgers University Graduate Student Association - New Brunswick
GSA Council Meeting # 1, AY 09-10 - September 20, 2009

  1. Determination of Quorum and Call to Order
    1. 10 Departmental Representatives
    2. 2 Elected Officers
  2. Approval of Agenda
  3. Approval of Minutes
  4. Old Business
    1. Printing of Agenda
      1. online agendas passed
  5. New Business
    1. Graduate Composers' Forum - Seeking recognition
      1. currently part of musicologists, sharing budget, expanding work with different needs, musicologists more interested in inviting speakers, composers want to get artists involved even from other departments
      2. Q: are your interests more performance events, A: yes
      3. Q: but still some academic activities, A: yes
      4. Q: will the events be announced on GSA list serve, A: yes
      5. passes
    2. Re-recognitions
      1. CAST
        1. no one present
      2. Italian
        1. there were some misunderstanding about attending before
        2. passed
      3. RUAsis
        1. no one present
    3. New Committee Chairs
      1. International Student Affairs Committee (ISAC)
        1. brief description about ISAC
        2. no other volunteer
        3. passed (the new chair)
      2. Social/Cultural
        1. no nominee
      3. Other
        1. no other nomination
    4. Budget approval
      1. explanations about the budget by the treasurer, dean Bender's emergency budget, GSOs' budget, extra money from last year, no cuts unless the application did not conform to our guidelines, in case of extra money spring allocations are possible too
      2. budget passes
  1. Reports
    1. GSA Executive Officers
      1. President (Aaron Braver - president@gsa.rutgers.edu)
        1. Use of the GSL, strongly consider GSL for your events
      2. Vice-president (Chuck O'Brien - vicepres@gsa.rutgers.edu)
        1. football tickets are not available through GSA but we got a deal for season tickets
      3. Treasurer (Joseph Conerty - treasurer@gsa.rutgers.edu)
        1. orientations' post event reports can be submitted now
        2. funding contracts need to be signed and submitted today
      4. Secretary (Bahareh Sehatzadeh - secretary@gsa.rutgers.edu)
    2. Internal Committees
      1. International Students Affairs (isac@gsa.rutgers.edu)
      2. Publications (pubchair@gsa.rutgers.edu)
      3. Social and Cultural (social@gsa.rutgers.edu)
      4. Sustainability (sustainability@gsa.rutgers.edu)
      5. TA/GA Steering Committee (taga@gsa.rutgers.edu)
        1. Elric explain about the TA/GA, new planners, importance of involvement and membership, the fee is just $20 a year
    3. Other Reports
      1. Senators
      2. Administrative  Assistant (Ben Pauli - help@gsa.rutgers.edu)
      3. Events Coordinator (Andrew Spath - events@gsa.rutgers.edu)
      4. Webmaster (Emily Knox - webmaster@gsa.rutgers)
  2. Question Time
  1. no question
  1. GSO Announcements
  2. Adjournment
    1. Funding contract/allocation pickup/signing