Graduate Student Council General Meeting Minutes
Monday, December 5, 2011
Union 213
1. Approval of Agenda
• Approved without changes
2. Approval of November 7, 2011 General Meeting Minutes
• Approved without changes
3. Guest Speaker: Chad Jackson
• The Next Big Thing, 4th year of the competition, Offers a chance for undergraduate and graduate students to present new entrepreneurial ideas. Seminars are hosted to assist in the development of the idea/project. Contact Chad for more information at:
4. Officer reports
o President Matthew Sellner
• $4,000 Academic Excellence Funds
o President-Elect Tammy Sonnentag
• No Report
o Treasurer Graciela Andrango
• SGA FY12 Travel Grant Funds
Spent $ 5,558.34
Allocated $ 19,000.00
Available $ 13,441.66
• SGA FY12 Operating Funds
Spent $ 341.05
Allocated $ 2,000.00
Available $ 1,658.95
• KSU Foundation Funds $4,306.19
Foundation GSC $ 1,333.46 this should be the 2,619.90—Travel Grants
State GSC Funds $ 2,619.90 this should be the 1,333.46—Graduate Student of the Year Award
• Registration Fees can be reimbursed
o Secretary Jennifer Miller
• No Report
5. Advisor report
o Dr. Shanklin
• Commencement is Friday at 1pm at Bramlage
• May graduate deadlines is not too early to start thinking about these
• Jan 3rd Duane Crawford will be with us
• Emails after commencement will be sent out to see if anyone wants to provide input on strategic plan of 2025 for Graduate students
6. Graduate Student Senate reports
o Adam Rogoschke
o Austin Wilhoit
• Last Tuesday was their last meeting.
• Diversity Program looking to bring in Mos Def to speak about diversity for $26,000.
• General Body has to vote on new senators and then pass it on to speaker of the student senate
o Carissa Loehr
o Craig Johnson
o Darrel Rezac
o Kathryn Lopez
o Ken Guan
o OPEN
7. Committee Reports
o Allocations – Graciela Andrango
• No Report
o Research Forums- Megan Miller
• 80 submissions from graduate students, still filtering through applications
o Student Affairs – Gayla Adams-Wright
• Not present, not report
o Fundraising – Shaneice McNabney
• Not present, no report
o Professional Development Seminar Series – Leslie Shulte
• Not present, no report
o Health Insurance – Grizelda MacDonald
• No report
o International Student Affairs Committee – Mauricio Montero Astua & Manpreet Rai
• International Week is being organized for next week; asking if we would like to participate on committees for this April 7-15
o Awards and Recognition – Liz Frink
• Not present, no report
o GSC Restructure-Austin Wilhoit
• Motion to vote support moving to a survey system that would take effect in Spring 2012
• Axio survey to have whole graduate student body to vote
• Approved: unanimously (18-0-0)
• Austin will follow-up with SGA
o Career and Employment Services Task Force-Sean Webeck
• No report
8. Representative Reports
o Union Governing Board – Kyle Probst
• Winter break projects—water bottle filling station, TVs, The Onion will be here on the Feb 1, no redbox
o University Library Committee – Jessica Reyes
• Not present, no report
o Campus Master Plan Committee- Pinakin Sukthankar
• Not present, no report
o 8020 Committee- Courtney George
• 8-10 people will be needed for CATS in the Capital
o State Affairs- Laura Teague
• Not present, no report
o Women of K-State
• Wednesday Dec. 14th brown bag will be about preparing for life’s challenges
9. Announcements
o December
• 9th- Graduate School Commencement 1pm Bramlage Coliseum
o Next General Meeting –Monday February 6, 2011 Leadership Studies 123 (Guest Speaker Provost April Mason)
10. Adjournment