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General Body Meeting

November 16th, 2023

Huntsman Hall JMHH370

ATTENDANCE

Word of the Day: MARKET

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Agenda for this meeting

6:00 - 6:10 Food, Call to order & Approval of agenda

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6:10 - 6:40 Campus resources - Meredith Wooten, Director of the Graduate Student Center

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6:40 - 7:00 Discretionary Application (Penn Graduate Linguistics Society)

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7:00 - 7:30 Exec Updates and Open Floor

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7:30 onwards - Happy Hour at New Deck Tavern Basement

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Campus resources

Meredith Wooten

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Director, Graduate Student Center

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Discretionary Application

Penn Graduate Linguistics Society

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Discretionary Application

Rules:

  • 5 Minutes Presentations
  • 5 Minutes Q&A
  • 5 Minutes Deliberation

Notes:

  • GB can make motions to extend time on Q&A or deliberation
  • Recommendations from Finance committee
    • Overall quality, feasibility, is it interdisciplinary, interest & focus on SAS students, addresses needs of SAS community (rated on a 1-5 scale, with 5 being the best)
    • Should this go to GB?

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GradLingS 48th Annual Penn Linguistics Conference

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SASGov General Body Presentation

Discretionary Funding

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November 16th, 2023

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Finance Recommendations

  • Finance committee ranked all categories as an average of 4 or better (project feasibility, is it interdisciplinary, does it appeal to SAS students as a whole, etc.)

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  • Finance committee recommends funding application in full ($1500)

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  • SASGov has historically funded this conference

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Presidents Updates

  • Grad Center Writing Programs Fellow

“Plan programs to help graduate students be successful in all aspects of their academic writing. Fellows work closely with the Director and Associate Director to develop new programs that provide writing support to graduate and professional students, as well as to facilitate existing programs, such as our Dissertation Boot Camp, Graduate Writers Rooms, and Writing Accountability Groups. Apply now!”

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  • SASGov meeting with Dean Wenger - soliciting topics
    • Teaching Compensation
    • Mentoring and Advisor-Advisee relationships
    • Yearly offer letter
    • Orientation issues
    • Relocation bonus
    • State of Schools presentation - yearly

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Policy Updates

  • Surveys
    • Sending out the survey to reps very soon
    • Reps send it out to their students before the end of this semester
    • Collecting data in the beginning of the next semester
    • TownHall: The end of January or the beginning of February

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  • VPE-GAPSA RC Meeting
    • handbook and official second letters

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Communications Updates

  • SASGov is still seeking graduate representatives from the following departments:
    • Cinema and Media Studies | Criminology | English | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Psychology | Spanish and Portuguese
  • GAPSA Updates:
    • Public Safety Focus Session
    • Handbook Survey
    • RC Bill to combine Individual and Group Grant Funding did NOT pass

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ATTENDANCE

Word of the Day: MARKET

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GAPSA Reps Updates

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Finance Updates

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  • Grants close Sunday November 19th @ 11:59pm EST
    • Encourage your constituents to apply!!

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  • Discretionary applications will remain open over break!

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  • Finance committee: please fill out the when2meet

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Research Grants

Discretionary App

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Current Budget

Budget Line

Allocation

Utilization

Administrative

$15,000

$4,902

Social

$6,000

$1,408

Grants

$24,000

$11,959

Discretionary

$5,000

$1,500

Contingency

$1,092

$0

Exec Stipends

$14,000

$14,000

GAPSA Rep Stipends

$2,000

$0

Merit Funding

$12,000

$0

Total

$85,092

$5,638

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Public Affairs Updates

  • Text

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Social Updates

  • Candle-making workshop was a success!

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  • Reschedule Round 1 Bowling Party -> late January

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  • Jingle Mingle Holiday Party (SAS, LPS, GSE)

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    • Dec 1st, Friday, 5-8 pm
    • The Trestle Inn, 339 N 11th Street

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    • $5 per ticket (40 spots for SAS)
    • two cocktail drink tickets & snacks
    • live music with go-go dancers

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GAPSA Events

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Committees

Finance

Policy

Social

Public Affairs

Communications

Linguistics

Religious Studies

Biology

Economics

Classical Studies

Ancient History

EES

Anthropology

History of Art

Sociology

Demography

Applied Math

History

Political Science

FIGS

NELC

Physics

Chemistry

EALC

English

AAMW

HSS

Philosophy

Psychology

Africana Studies

Cinema & Media

South Asia Studies

Comp. Lit

Spanish & Portuguese

Music

Math

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Open Floor

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Join Us for Happy Hour!

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