February 28 GRC Agenda

February 22nd, 2012 / by: stacy

Grad Council Agenda

Full agenda PDF: 2012-02-28 GRC Agenda with Appendices [PDF]

February 28, 2012
5pm

UVIC Grad Centre Rooms 108-112

STANDING ITEMS

Approval of the Agenda

Approval of the Minutes: 2012-01-24 GRC DRAFT MINUTES

Business arising from the minutes

Executive Reports

Chair’s Report:Feb Exec Report 2012 – Munk
Student Affairs Report: February GRC report Fatma
Finance
Communications
Services

Departmental Reports

Committee Representative Reports

Food Security Committees: Food Security Update_FebruaryGRC – Anthony
Senate Committee on Academic Standing:2012-01-25 Memo for SCAS – Fatma
Other

INTERNAL BUSINESS

Grad House Financial Report
Consumer Price Index & Membership fees 2012-02-25 CPI briefing
Stipend Review Committee: Stipend Review

Report on the BC GSS Summit: BCGSS_Update_FebruaryGRC – Anthony
Motions for Consideration at the AGM
AGM Posters
Election Update & reminder to vote

VARIA

None.

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BC GSS joint campaigns

February 6th, 2012 / by: stacy

At the January 24, 2012 Grad Council meeting, Michael Anthony presented this GRC Briefing on BC GSS campaigns. The brief contains background on the meetings between BC Graduate Student Societies this year and in past, and the types of joint campaigns we had discussed.

It also proposed consideration of this motion:

The following motion is an altered version of the motion passed by SFU in Sept. 2011.

Whereas the UVic Graduate Representative Council seeks to prioritize the external advocacy work done on its behalf at the federal and provincial level;

Whereas delegates of the Graduate Students’ Societies of UBC, UNBC, SFU, and UVic agreed upon a list of five shared External Lobbying Priorities as follows:

(1) The province of British Columbia (hereafter the Province) securely funds a British Columbia Graduate Student Scholarship and Debt Forgiveness Program;

(2) Increased support for curiosity based and non-commercial research;

(3) The Province and each BC GSS member society’s University adopts a Higher Education Price Index, and that such an index is used when calculating increases to university operating grants and per graduate student funding.

(4) Graduate student interests are considered in intellectual property and copyright changes;

(5) A Graduate Student Bill of Rights is developed by all BC GSS member society universities, identifying minimum requirements for student success;

BE IT RESOLVED THAT the University of Victoria’s Graduate Representative Council adopt the five External Lobbying Priorities listed above.

We agreed to discuss this proposal and take a vote by email prior to the next meeting of the BC GSS, which takes place February 18-19.

Please have a look!

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