Meetings with Dan Akerib (department chair), Cathy Bailey (PGSA vice-president), Adam Bradley (PGSA faculty representative / GSS representative), Jon Leong
Notes from May 23, 2007 meeting
- Introduce PGSA at a Faculty Meeting
- Dan will introduce the PGSA at the faculty meeting on May 25, 2007
- Cathy, Adam, and Jon will give an overview of PGSA (including how / why PGSA formed, what PGSA has done this year, what PGSA would like to do in the future) at the faculty meeting on May 29, 2007
- Weekly Lunches
- Idea – organize a ‘lunch-box’ lunch each week with a number (5-10) graduate students and one or two professors
- Purpose – foster community in the department, including between faculty and students
- What needs to be done – Adam email PGSA list to determine interest
- Faculty Committees
- Idea – have a graduate representative sit on the following faculty committees
- Purpose – increase faculty / graduate student relations
- Graduate committee (curriculum, etc)
- Seminar / Colloquium
- Graduate admissions (recruiting)
- Talk to BME & other graduate student organizations
- Idea – talk to other departments which have active graduate student groups
- Purpose – continue to build PGSA, including incorporating ideas from these different groups
- Exchange person between PGSA and PAC
- Alumni component to PGSA
- Idea – maintaining contact with past Case physics alumni
- Purpose – networking