Think, Thrive and Excel! – Graduate Student Association

REPRESENTATION. LEADERSHIP. COUNCIL.

GSA General Assembly

Minutes for Wednesday, October28th 2015

  1. The meeting was called to order at 4:50pm by the President: Murugan Balaji
  1. Attendees:

E-Board:

Murugan Balaji, Ravi TejaUppaluri, Nikhil Joshi, Chaitra Gowda ,Rahul Arya, ShailendraKhandewale

Clubs: Sanskar, GBMES, Women Computing Club.

  1. Graduate Students Research Day Highlights:

Murugan Balaji discussed about the Research Day event and also the opinions of students.

  1. GSA Past Events:

Murugan Balaji discussed the past events held by GSA-SanskarGarbha Night, the GSA-IS club Ave point information session. He discussed about the events and also the opinions of students.

  1. GSA Upcoming Major Events:

Murugan Balaji also announced the major GSA Upcoming Events like GMES field trip to NYC on October 31st 2015 and also the GSA Casino Night.

  1. Signup for events/Volunteer :

An open call was made for the willing students to work as volunteers for the upcoming GSA events.

  1. Special Announcements :

A) GSA New Club: Arts Club

Murugan Balaji requested the students to come to general assembly, who are interested in

joining Arts Club. The E-board would be decided during the meeting itself and E-board

members should be able to perform a fine art.

B) Travel Reimbursement:

GSA Treasurer discussed about it with the students and listed out the rules for it.

  1. Club Announcements:

Women computing club are going to have Hadoop Session in 2nd week of November.

Omicron Delta Kappa made an open call for all the students to register for the National Leadership Honor Society.

  1. Other Issues:

A)IS students were having trouble to register for courses, Department Representative took care of it and is going to arrange an info session on it.

B) Sanskar Club had the issue with their front door code; it is going to be replaced soon.

C) Departmental Representative of ECE department raised a concern on internships for ECE students.

  1. Next General Assembly Meeting:

The next meeting is going to be held on November11th, 2015 from 4.30 to 5.30 pm at Campus center 240.

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