Doctoral Students’ Council

Grant Committee

Minutes

April4th, 2013

Meeting called to order at 5:08PM

In attendance: Jen Tang, Colin Ashley, Rebecca Salois, Chris Eng, Hamad Sindhi, T Meyerhoff, 2(4h), Claire Sommers, Daniel Harris, Bess Rowen

  1. Approval of Agenda

Amendment: 4f and 4b to be discussed before 4a

CA motions to approve; RB seconds; approved unanimously

  1. Approval of Old Minutes (see attachment)

Amendment: Tony Perri was in attendance; title to be amended from Agenda to Minutes

CA motions to approve minutes with those amendments; CE seconds; approved unanimously

  1. Grants Committee Operations
  2. Current fund situation

Total Grants Budget / $24 000
Allotted Grant Funds / $13 488
Allotted Start-up Grant Funds / $300
Available Grant Budget / $10 212
  1. Proposal Reviews
  2. The Renaissance of Roland Barthes – Claire Sommers

Moved to vote:JT; RS seconds

Result: Passes unanimously

Votes to fund: avg. 2

Motion to fund: $ 1000; motions; seconds; motion unanimously approved

DSC now to pay for $400 for honorarium and $600 for breakfast over two days

Result: $1000 funding

Discussion: too much toward just honorarium, hence reallocation of budget

  1. New Work on Speech Acts Conference – Daniel Harris

Cannot vote for September event until next year; rep will approach program to seek funds

  1. Hammerklavier – Daniel Corban

Moved to vote: JT; RS seconds

Result: Passes unanimously

Votes to fund: avg. 0

Result: Not funded

Consider: making ties to GC more explicit; elaborate upon funding sources; how was selection of works determined? demonstrate more involvement with other programs and seek funding from them

Rationale: does not demonstrate interdisciplinary involvement and funding support; does not sufficiently demonstrate the larger involvement of students; does not demonstrate how selection of works decided

  1. Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Workshop - Hamad Sindhi

Moved to vote: JT; RS seconds

Result: Passes; CA abstains

Votes to fund: avg. 2

Motion to fund: $750; CE motions; JT seconds; motion unanimously approved

Result: Full funding

Consider: having making explicit that this will be a continuing series of workshops to appeal to IT; with this workshop, will have qualified students to serve as instructor and thus be eligible for IT funding

Discussion: program EO informed that they will not be funding, student association via DSC will contribute; held before and was success, reaching students from other programs; requirement for student to be instructors too strict

  1. Fe/mail - T Meyerhoff

Moved to vote: JT; CA seconds

Result: Passes unanimously

Votes to fund: avg. 2

Motion to fund: $ 745; JT motions; RS seconds; motion unanimously approved

Result: Fully funding

Consider: further collaborations with Feminist Studies Group

Discussion: some of requested supplies and items reusable for future events; may ask for initial RSVP to confirm attendance since held on last day of semester

  1. Edwin Booth Award – Bess Rowen

Moved to vote: JT; CA seconds

Result: Passes unanimously

Votes to fund: avg. 2

Motion to fund: $900; motions; seconds; motion unanimously approved

Result: $900 funding

Consider: revise budget request because projection for food expense too low; revised to $900 with stipulation that program contributes $100-200

Discussion: does demonstrate attempts to decrease projected expense; continued concern about lack of funding support from theatre program and its allocation

  1. Framing Milan

Moved to vote: JT; CA seconds

Result: Passes unanimously

Votes to fund: avg.2

Motion to fund: $745; JT motions; CE seconds; motion unanimously approved

Result: Full funding

  1. GC Cryptography Student Seminar

Moved to vote: JT; CA seconds

Result: Passes unanimously

Votes to fund: avg. 2

Motion to fund: $250; CA motions to fund at $250; JT seconds; motion unanimously approved

Result: Funding for $250

Consider:become a charter organization—further outreach to other programs to obtain signatures and gather more attention to seminar; consider broadening focus of chartered org and having cryptography series be one component; consider reaching out to OccupyData and the Internet Research Team (IRT); contact program reps to seek contributions for program allocations

Discussion: in process of trying to charter, but encountering difficulty with minimum number of membership and involvement with at least 3 programs; faculty advisor only periodically attends to provide some insight, but seminar organized and run just by students; events in summer should be reserved for fall

  1. Feminist Studies Group Spring Workshop Series

Moved to vote: JT; CA seconds

Result: Passes unanimously

Votes to fund: avg. 1

Result: Revise and resubmit

Consider: seek alternative source for funding of flash drives; decrease promotion material costs to around $40

Questions:clarify program allocation—or from chartered org?; speakers confirmed?; please specify “incidental expenses”; what are the purposes of the flash drives and tote bags?

  1. A Celebration of the Work of Ed Dorn

Moved to vote: CA; RS seconds

Result: Passes unanimously

Votes to fund: avg. 1

Result: revise and resubmit

Consider: specify budget lines

  1. Announcements
  1. Adjournment

RS motions; JT second; approved unanimously

Meeting adjourned at 6:40PM

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