GAPSA Executive Vice President position available!
GAPSA is currently calling for Executive Vice President nominations for the 2009-2010 school year. Elections will take place during a special Assembly Meeting on Wednesday, July 8th at 6:30pm in Room 307, Coffman. For more information or to apply, please visit our Elections page.
GAPSA is now on Twitter!
We will be piloting Twitter for the summer so let us know how you like it. Find us by our username: GAPSAUMN at Twitter.com. We look forward to keeping you up-to-date and hearing what YOU need from GAPSA!
COGS Survey Results
COGS has released the results of its Biennial Graduate Student Survey. Information was gathered in 2008 for both PhD programs and Masters programs. The survey results showed that graduate students are very concerned about the increasing costs of graduate education and the shortage of assistantships and travel funding.
Community Organizing Job Announcement
If you have a love of community organizing or an interest in increasing students' sense of community near campus - here's a job for you! The Student Neighborhood Liaison program is hiring 12 additional students for the '09- '10 academic year. The positions are 5 hours/week for a $1,000 stipend per fall and spring semesters each. The positions involve neighborhood outreach through door-knocking, event planning and connecting with community organizations each week Please see the job description with application instructions included. Any questions can be directed to Kendre Turonie via email at neighbor@umn.edu or via phone at 612-625-8939.
New program available to help lower student loans
Income-Based Repayment, a new program that can help lower your monthly payments on federal student loans, becomes available July 1. Click here for a short animated video explaining the program. To apply for IBR, contact your lender. For more information, visit www.IBRinfo.org
Graduate School Restructuring
The Graduate School will restructure the administration of its graduate programs. Please read the following publications regarding the restructuring and other important information.
The Initial Press Release (February 9th)
The Provost's letter regarding the restructring (February 9th)
Restructuring report and a Q & A document (February 9th)
A copy of GAPSA's Press Release (February 11th)
The naming of the Implementation Team (February 20th)
The Committee of Graduate Education releases report restructuring recommendations (April 24th)
Recent articles printed in the Minnesota Daily:
- April 27th : "Committee releases report on Grad School..."
- April 8th : "In Graduate School restructuring, question..."
- March 29th : "Plan still uncertain for Grad School."
- March 11th : "Faculty speak out..."
- March 11th : "Sullivan responds to grad school..."
- March 10th : "...Reconstruction: Why the decision was..."
- March 9th : "Bruininks: 'We could have done better.'"
- March 9th : "U admins breach policy in decision...'"
- March 1st : "...restructuring team meets for the first..."
- February 24th : "Consultation the focus of Grad School..."
- February 22th : "Implementation team announced..."
- February 18th : "Bruininks talks budget..."
- February 15th : "Regents profs ask..."
- February 10th : "Graduate School restructuring largely..."
- February 9th : "Graduate School disbands..."
A recent article from Inside Higher Ed:
- February 12th : "(Grad) School's out."
Letters of Support:
For more updates, see the GAPSA E-NEWS
Why have one Graduate School? Click HERE for some of the benefits.
Examples of services provided by the Graduate School are listed HERE.
For the Graduate School Constitution, click HERE.
Message from GAPSA President, Kristi Kremers: Febraury 10th
The closure of the Graduate School has come as a complete shock to us, and those that work there. We will be posting regular updates here, on our homepage. Tomorrow, February 11th, the executive boards of COGS and GAPSA will be meeting with the Provost's office and we hope to gain more information at that time. Because COGS is chartered under the Graduate School, this may mean we will have to look at the structure of COGS. Everything at this point is in the very early stages, but we want to keep you in the loop. I'm sure our next Assembly meeting a week from tomorrow will include some needed conversations about our collective future.
GAPSA in the News!
See what GAPSA is doing through the eyes of the Minnesota Daily in our News section.
