(sent Feb 10, 2021)
February 3rd, GSA General Body Meeting Minutes & Slides
Virtual Events:
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Celebration
- University Lecture Series: A Conversation with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
- Wednesday, Feb. 10 | 5 pm | Register here
- University Lecture Series: A Conversation with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
- December Student Affairs Events can be found here
- December Grad-ed events can be found here
Other Opportunities:
- Apply to the Tartan Emergency Support Fund and the Student Food Insecurity Fund if you are facing any hardship (Apply Here)
- GSA Special Allocations
- Get funding for new initiatives or projects that benefit the graduate student experience
- Find more information and how to apply here
- Child Care Grants
- $500 to help off-set cost of child care
- Find more information and apply here
- Appointments for Legal Consultation for Spring now open <sign-up here>
📢 Exec Updates and Announcements:
- Special Allocations. Find the details on these allocations here
- International Film Festival: Allocated $5,000
- Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
- To help us learn about EDI efforts across campus, please complete this survey <here>
- University Libraries Focus Group
- Seeking grad students to partake on a 60-minute group (6 people) conversations on their experiences/perceptions of the University Libraries
- Email Shannon Riffe <sriffe@andrew.cmu.edu> for more information and to participate.
- University Support Childcare Options
🏫 Appointment and Confirmation of GSA Partner & Family Co-advocates
- Regan Kubicek - PhD Candidate in Mech. E.
- McKenna McCall - PhD Candidate in ECE
🌱 Presentation and Q&A with Sustainability Initiatives at CMU
- Reps had an opportunity to ask about what CMU is doing to tackle the Sustainable Development Goals
💰 Presentation and Q&A with the administration on COVID-19 Actions and Tartan Testing
- Reps asked about vaccination, testing, and actions CMU is doing to keep everyone safe
📢 Lastly, here are some resources discussed previously that are relevant today:
- If you are having any difficulty transitioning to working remotely, contact your college liaison, GSA <gsa@cmu.edu>, or the Grad. Ed. Office
- You can watch CMU Group X classes on demand
- Learn about how to utilize the CMU Pantry
- Stay updated with the latest developments around the COVID-19 on the CDC website and the CMU coronavirus website
- To help you transition into virtual classes, look into these Resources for Living and Working Remotely
- You can subscribe to CaPS’ distribution list here
- GSA’s Response to Confronting Racism (GSA Statement)
- AntiRacism Starter Kit
- AntiRacist Resources 1 | 2
- South Asian Allyship for Black Lives 1 | 2
- Resources for Education 1 | 2
Attached Documents
- Meeting Minutes
- Meeting Slides
- Jan. Special Allocations
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Thank you,
Santiago D. Carrasquilla
VP of Internal Affairs
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