BISC Grad Caucus meeting minutes
May 28, 2004
In attendance: Jonathan Stecyk, Andrea Pomeroy, Katrina Salvante, Jonathan Whiteley, Suzanne Gray, Brian Bradley, Raul Ursic, Christiana Cheng, Shelly Hoover, Dawn Cooper, Jay Biernaskie, Jeff Ball
- Review positions elected at the April meeting
- Caucus Chair: Jonathan Stecyk
- Secretary: Danielle Simonot
- Treasurer: Christiana Cheng
- Member at Large: Andrea Pomeroy
- Web Master: Jonathan Whiteley
- DSC: Jonathan Stecyk; Secondary DSC; VACANT (Dawn Cooper expressed interest and will be contacted)
- TSSU Steward (5 positions available): 3 VACANCIES; Danielle Simonot, Raul Ursic
- GIC: Raul Ursic has agreed to stay on
- Social Committee: Brian Ma has agreed to stay on
- DGSC: Shelly Hoover and Joline King have agreed to stay on.
- More new positions
- Mentor Coordinator: Suzanne Gray will talk to Joline regarding the time commitment required
- Faculty Mole: Dawn Cooper
- TSSU Steward: Christiana Cheng will fill one of the vacancies
- Positions available this fall
- Jonathan Stecyk and Danielle Simonot will be leaving in September, we will hold elections then for Cacus Chair, and Secretary
- Summer BBQ
- An end of summer bbq was suggested to be held in August – more details to follow
- Faculty Mole Update
- There may be funding available for a staff/faculty/graduate student lounge in the department. Tony has asked caucus to draft a letter of support for the lounge. Jonathan will draft a letter.
- Dawn Cooper will sit on the collegiality committee to communicate ideas for the lounge from the graduate students
- purpose of the checklist is to improve communication between grads and advisors
- lists will include info such as “what is the DGSC”, “what is the grad caucus”, etc.
- Request for funds from SFSS
- Caucus passed a motion to request our semester funding from SFSS (nominated by Shelley Hoover, second Raul Ursic, all in favour)
