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Executive Updates - July 28

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 17:06:26 +0000

Executive Updates - July 28 Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 07/28/2022 - 11:06

To our graduate and professional colleagues,

Happy end of summer! Summer has been pretty quiet for us as we prepare to kick off a new year of grad and professional student representation this fall. As Executives, we've put together a list of priorities to work on with campus administration and the GPSG Assembly has also been brainstorming projects for the coming year:

Increasing transparency about grad student stipend compensation and appointment expectations
Increasing grad student stipends to match the cost of living in Boulder
Increasing transparency about the "fine print" of grad and professional student benefits and services offered through the university
Increasing direct communication between campus administration and grad and professional student groups
Student representation on the CU Board of Regents
Improving access to DEI educational materials for students
Increasing parking and transportation safety on campus
Improving accessibility of campus buildings

As always, we value your feedback! You can contact us any time by emailing the Executives or your Assembly Senator or using our anonymous feedback form.

Upcoming events:

GPSG meetings
- All GPSG meetings will be scheduled during the first week of classes in August
New Grad Student Orientation on August 16th
Grad and Professional student events on the CU Calendar

Opportunities:

Applications for positions within GPSG and on campus boards and committees are open! Many of these positions are paid and no previous experience is necessary. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and more positions will be added as we get closer to the start of the school year. Position descriptions can be found here and application materials here.
Sign up to get the weekly GPSG newsletter!

Looking forward to seeing you this fall!

We hope you have a great rest of your summer,

Barra Peak, and Mckenzie Dice

GPSG Executive Team

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Executive Updates - March 17

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 17:48:53 +0000

Executive Updates - March 17 Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 03/17/2022 - 11:48

To our graduate and professional colleagues,

Please see below for a weekly update from the Graduate and Professional Student Government, which you should also be receiving from your department representative or college senator.

Upcoming events:

GPSG meetings
- All GPSG meetings will be cancelled during Spring Break.
Grad and Professional student events on the CU Calendar
Tomorrow, March 18 - GPSG is hosting a dance and bowling social!
March 30 - Centering Justice in Climate Change Action. This features CU Boulder researchers and graduate students!

Week in Review and Opportunities:

The Legislative Assembly decided on Wednesday to create a more formal 5-committee structure, including an Awards & Grants committee.
The application period for the annual GPSG Excellence Awards is open through today! Apply to be recognized for your contributions to teaching and the scholarship community on campus!
Applications for all GPSG positions for the upcoming academic year are now open through April 1. You can find all information on our elections page. If you are interested in a particular position, you can reach out to the current person in that position to discuss the details.
This week, the executive team met with the Associate Vice Chancellors and Shared Governance groups. Presentations focused on sustainability initiatives and DEI strategy on campus.
Sign up to get the weekly GPSG newsletter!

GPSG will not be operating over Spring Break. We will respond to all emails when we return to campus!

If any questions arise, you can reach out to your representative or contact us at gpsg@colorado.edu.

We hope you stay safe and have a great week,

Emily Jensen, Barra Peak, and Mckenzie Dice

GPSG Executive Team

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Executive Updates - March 10

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 19:58:12 +0000

Executive Updates - March 10 Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 03/10/2022 - 12:58

To our graduate and professional colleagues,

Please see below for a weekly update from the Graduate and Professional Student Government, which you should also be receiving from your department representative or college senator.

Upcoming events:

GPSG meetings
- Assembly Meetings - Wednesdays 5pm
- Administration Team - biweekly Thursdays 4pm
- Engagement Team - Tuesdays 3:30pm
- Executive Team - Thursdays 10:30am
- Outreach Team - Mondays at 10am
Grad and Professional student events on the CU Calendar
March 18 - GPSG is hosting a dance and bowling social!
March 30 - Centering Justice in Climate Change Action. This features CU Boulder researchers and graduate students!

Week in Review and Opportunities:

Dean Adler visited the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday to discuss future priorities and recent campus survey results.
The application period for the Spring Semester GPSG DEI Awards is open! Application materials can be found here and close March 15th.
The application period for the annual GPSG Excellence Awards is open! Apply to be recognized for your contributions to teaching and the scholarship community on campus! Applications are due March 17th.
Applications for all GPSG positions for the upcoming academic year are opening on March 14. You can find all information on our elections page. If you are interested in a particular position, you can reach out to the current person in that position to discuss the details.
Next week, the executive team will be meeting with the Associate Vice Chancellors and Shared Governance groups.
Sign up to get the weekly GPSG newsletter!

If any questions arise, you can reach out to your representative or contact us at gpsg@colorado.edu.

We hope you stay safe and have a great week,

Emily Jensen, Barra Peak, and Mckenzie Dice

GPSG Executive Team

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Executive Updates - March 5

Anonymous — Sat, 05 Mar 2022 22:38:12 +0000

Executive Updates - March 5 Anonymous (not verified) Sat, 03/05/2022 - 15:38

To our graduate and professional colleagues,

Please see below for a weekly update from the Graduate and Professional Student Government, which you should also be receiving from your department representative or college senator.

Upcoming events:

GPSG meetings
- Assembly Meetings - Wednesdays 5pm
- Administration Team - biweekly Thursdays 4pm
- Engagement Team - Tuesdays 3:30pm
- Executive Team - Thursdays 10:30am
- Outreach Team - Mondays at 10am
Grad and Professional student events on the CU Calendar

Week in Review and Opportunities:

The Legislative Assembly is currently discussing proposals to change their committee structure. All GPSG meetings and events are open to the public!
Dean Adler will be attending Assembly for a Q&A next week. Please submit any questions in advance to Madeline Mader. All students are also welcome to attend this meeting and ask questions.
The application period for the Spring Semester GPSG DEI Awards is open! Application materials can be found here and close March 15th.
The application period for the annual GPSG Excellence Awards is open! Apply to be recognized for your contributions to teaching and the scholarship community on campus! Applications are due March 17th.
Applications for all GPSG positions for the upcoming academic year are opening on March 14. You can find all information on our elections page. If you are interested in a particular position, you can reach out to the current person in that position to discuss the details.
Sign up to get the weekly GPSG newsletter!

If any questions arise, you can reach out to your representative or contact us at gpsg@colorado.edu.

We hope you stay safe and have a great week,

Emily Jensen, Barra Peak, and Mckenzie Dice

GPSG Executive Team

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Executive Updates - February 24

Anonymous — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 02:53:21 +0000

Executive Updates - February 24 Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 02/24/2022 - 19:53

To our graduate and professional colleagues,

Please see below for a weekly update from the Graduate and Professional Student Government, which you should also be receiving from your department representative or college senator.

Upcoming events and opportunities:

GPSG meetings
- Assembly Meetings - Wednesdays 5pm
- Administration Team - biweekly Thursdays 4pm
- Engagement Team - Tuesdays 3:30pm
- Executive Team - Thursdays 10:30am
- Outreach Team - Mondays at 10am
Grad and Professional student events on the CU Calendar
Applications for Graduate Excellence Awards are open, due Thursday, March 17. Apply to be recognized for your contributions to teaching and the scholarship community on campus!
Arts & Sciences: The search for a new college dean is entering the public phase where finalist candidates will be visiting campus. How would grad students like to interact with potential candidates to provide feedback? So far in this search there has been only ONE grad student representative so we would like to have a high number of students provide feedback at this stage! Please email Barra Peak if you have ideas or want to be involved!
See current openings to work with GPSG.
Sign up to get the weekly GPSG newsletter!

Week in Review:

Our President of Engagement, Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Senator for the School of Education met with CU System President Todd Saliman to talk about DEI work on campus this week.
The Executive team met with the Grad School and discussed strategies for communicating important information (see new monthly email format) and started collaboration on ensuring equitable workload for students on appointment.
Please let us know if there are particular issues you’d like us to prioritize!
Our Director of Legislative Affairs attended Lobbying Day at the Colorado capitol.

If any questions arise, you can reach out to your representative or contact us at gpsg@colorado.edu.

We hope you stay safe and have a great week,

Emily Jensen, Barra Peak, and Mckenzie Dice

GPSG Executive Team

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Executive Updates - January 27

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 20:56:57 +0000

Executive Updates - January 27 Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 01/27/2022 - 13:56

To our graduate and professional colleagues,

Please see below for a weekly update from the Graduate and Professional Student Government, which you should also be receiving from your department representative or college senator.

Upcoming events and opportunities:

GPSG meetings
- Assembly Meetings - Wednesdays 5pm
- Administration Team - biweekly Thursdays 4pm
- Engagement Team - Tuesdays 3pm
- Executive Team - Thursdays 10:30am
- Outreach Team - Mondays at 10am
Grad and Professional student events on the CU Calendar
Applications for Spring travel grants are open, due Friday, January 28.
See current openings to work with GPSG.
Sign up to get the weekly GPSG newsletter!

Week in Review:

The Assembly approved a grant to the ATOC Outreach Committee and discussed communication strategies with their colleges. These meetings are always open to the public.
Fee Advisory Board Met on Thursday 20 January to finish updates to the Institutional Student Fee Plan. Updates pertinent to GPSG included that from now on one executive member (likely President of Outreach) and the Director of Finance will attend FAB meetings. Additionally, the email of the chair of the Board will be added on the finance office's website so that students may contact the chair if they have questions or concerns about a certain fee. The final draft of this plan will be finished in a few weeks.
Additionally (not related to the Fee Plan), last fall the capital construction fee was discontinued, which is about $100/semester.
We had 64 applications for the GPSG Fire Victim Assistance Fund and made awards to 16 students.
The President of Engagement is working on proposing updates to the CU Boulder Today emails to make them more useful to graduate students. If you have any thoughts about this, please email engagement.gpsg@colorado.edu.
Please let us know if there are particular issues you’d like us to prioritize!

If any questions arise, you can reach out to your representative or contact us at gpsg@colorado.edu.

We hope you stay safe and have a great week,

Emily Jensen, Barra Peak, and Mckenzie Dice

GPSG Executive Team

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Executive Updates - January 21

Anonymous — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 21:07:37 +0000

Executive Updates - January 21 Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 01/21/2022 - 14:07

To our graduate and professional colleagues,

Welcome back to a new semester! Please see below for a weekly update from the Graduate and Professional Student Government, which you should also be receiving from your department representative or college senator.

Upcoming events and opportunities:

GPSG meetings
- Assembly Meetings - Wednesdays 5pm
- Administration Team - biweekly Thursdays 4pm
- Engagement Team - Tuesdays 3pm
- Executive Team - Thursdays 10:30am
- Outreach Team - Mondays at 10am
Grad and Professional student events on the CU Calendar
Applications for Spring travel grants are open, due Friday, January 28.

Week in Review:

Our first Assembly meeting of the semester was on Wednesday. These meetings are always open to the public.
We met with the Graduate School this week. We will be adding graduate students to the Housing Master Plan Committee. Other discussion items included how to coordinate communications and structure CUBT emails to better engage graduate students.
GPSG welcomes Jennifer Reeve as Executive Advisory Committee representative and Benjamin Burney as Dir. Social Events! We are looking for students to join two committees: graduate mentoring and to discuss the possibility of adding a third semester to the academic calendar. See current openings to work with GPSG.
GPSG executives meet regularly with high level campus administrators such as the Chancellor, the Chief Operations Officer, the Dean of the Grad School and many others. If you have questions/concerns that should be addressed to these people please let us know! Assembly meetings are also the appropriate place to discuss these topics.
Please let us know if there are particular issues you’d like us to prioritize in the new year!

If any questions arise, you can reach out to your representative or contact us at gpsg@colorado.edu.

We hope you stay safe and have a great week,

Emily Jensen, Barra Peak, and Mckenzie Dice

GPSG Executive Team

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Executive Updates - December 8

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 17:23:22 +0000

Executive Updates - December 8 Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 12/08/2021 - 10:23

To our graduate and professional colleagues,

This is our last edition before the holidays! Please see below for a weekly update from the Graduate and Professional Student Government, which you should also be receiving from your department representative or college senator.

Upcoming events and opportunities:

GPSG meetings
- all meetings are on hold until the next semester
Grad and Professional student events on the CU Calendar
To avoid the possibility of having a delay in enrollment in the CU student health insurance for spring semester make sure you are enrolled in classes or dissertation credits before December 9th!
Our Director of Social Events is hosting a coffee hour for grad and professional students next Monday from 10-11 at Pekoe on campus! Stop by to get $3 off your coffee or snack. Click here for more info

Week in Review:

We met with the IDEA council and the Director of Residence Life last week. We will be meeting with the Chancellor and the Graduate School once more before winter break.
Fee Advisory Board meeting next week. GPSG is proposing significant changes to Institutional Fee Plan. We believe this is the central way we can control/reduce fees for grad & professional students.
As of December 25th, Bobby Vondrasek is resigning from the President of Outreach position to be replaced by Mckenzie Dice. We would like to thank Bobby for his years of service to GPSG and the grad student body as Director of Legislative Affairs, President, and President of Outreach.
The GPSG Assembly is on winter break! Assembly meetings will resume the first week of classes in January. GPSG executives and officers will continue to work until December 23rd. We will be observing CU Boulder administrative holiday leave December 24th - January 3rd.
GPSG welcomes Marlene Palomar as the new Senator for the College of Education! See current openings to work with GPSG.
Ryan Gomez will be serving as Dir. Legislative Affairs starting in Spring. Ryan will be replacing Mckenzie Dice as she takes the Pres. Outreach position.
Please let us know if there are particular issues you’d like us to prioritize in the new year!

If any questions arise, you can reach out to your representative or contact us at gpsg@colorado.edu.

We hope you stay safe and have a great week,

Emily Jensen, Barra Peak, and Bobby Vondrasek

GPSG Executive Team

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Executive Updates - December 2

Anonymous — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 22:03:17 +0000

Executive Updates - December 2 Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 12/02/2021 - 15:03

To our graduate and professional colleagues,

Please see below for a weekly update from the Graduate and Professional Student Government, which you should also be receiving from your department representative or college senator.

Upcoming events and opportunities:

GPSG meetings
- Assembly Meetings - Tuesdays 6:30pm
- Administration Team - biweekly Wednesdays 9am
- Engagement Team - Tuesdays 4pm
- Executive Team - Tuesdays 10am
- Outreach Team - Tuesday 4:30 pm (as needed)
Grad and Professional student events on the CU Calendar
To avoid the possibility of having a delay in enrollment in the CU student health insurance for spring semester make sure you are enrolled in classes or dissertation credits before December 9th!

Week in Review:

GPSG published an Op-Ed in the Colorado Sun Opinion: Punishing RTD hurts Colorado's most potent weapon against climate change
The grad school is looking for a student member to join the Executive Advisory Council, tasked with reviewing grad student curriculum and degree proposals. Click here to view the description and apply.
GPSG Assembly confirmed two new senators this week!
CU Boulder will get 4 new 40ft 100% Electric Buff Buses (2 delivered in 2022, 2 delivered in 2023). This was obtained with help from an EPA grant.

If any questions arise, you can reach out to your representative or contact us at gpsg@colorado.edu.

We hope you stay safe and have a great week,

Emily Jensen, Barra Peak, and Bobby Vondrasek

GPSG Executive Team

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Executive Updates - November 17

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 20:40:19 +0000

Executive Updates - November 17 Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 11/17/2021 - 13:40

To our graduate and professional colleagues,

Please see below for a weekly update from the Graduate and Professional Student Government, which you should also be receiving from your department representative or college senator.

Upcoming events and opportunities:

All GPSG meetings are cancelled during Fall Break next week.
Grad and Professional student events on the CU Calendar

Week in Review:

Remember to take the Campus Culture Survey to help us reach a 50% response rate! A personalized link to the survey was sent to you with the subject line: "Reminder: Your link to the Campus Culture Survey.”
We opened applications for GPSG Dir. of Social Events and Dir. of Legislative Affairs. Read more about the positions and apply here.
We met with other shared governance leaders to hear about campus DEI plans.
Updates from the Associate Vice Chancellor’s meeting:
- Subject to federal requirements, CU employees and students will no longer be able to claim a personal exemption for the COVID-19 vaccine. Students who do not change their vaccination status will not be eligible for the 3% stipend increase in January.
- Resource for finding COVID vaccine and booster shot appointments
- Spring 2022 COVID guidance will be announced on Friday
GPSG Executives are meeting with the Graduate School leadership on Thursday to discuss the new fee remittance and base pay increases.
GPSG Assembly confirmed four new senators this week!

If any questions arise, you can reach out to your representative or contact us at gpsg@colorado.edu.

We hope you stay safe and have a great week,

Emily Jensen, Barra Peak, and Bobby Vondrasek

GPSG Executive Team

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