NRGSO officers meeting, January 14, 2011 Speaker seminar series – · Tim Jessen has been in contact with Dr. Ripple. We are discussing dates: March 7-9, 2011. · Tim & Melissa Merrick will submit a POD grant · Help needed: o more grant writing o contacting ASUA for equipment and a room o organizing undergrad and graduate student lunches (food and rooms) o flyers · We discussed early planning for next year’s event. We will ask Grad Forum for feedback and then send an invite to L. David Mech in August. He's always a top vote getter year in/year out, but is always booked up when we invite him in spring. Tim spoke with him and he seems very willing to do it, we just have to ask him earlier. · Grant information: * GPSC - Professional Opportunities Development (POD) fund - $1,500 for honorarium (done) * Associated Students of the University of Arizona (ASUA) used to rent space; no food,
honorariums, or flights; min. 4 wks before event * ASUA general funding ($500) - supplies, postage, advertising, fliers, printing, etc. * Center for Student Involvement and
Leadership ($100 - $400) - typically provide pizza and sodas * Student Affairs - Faculty and student interaction grant
Tasks: Tim will submit POD grant. Carrie will · Send out an update to the listserv & ask for help with grant writing to cover food for grad and undergrad lunches, renting rooms, equipment, and catering. · Find out who coordinates the faculty Brown Bag lunch. Michelle - · sort out our account with SNRE NRGSO Nov. 6th Meeting 1. Key Deposit a. Make sure your name is on the list with Cecily. They are still trying to find the money to reimburse people. They are also double checking to see how many keys each person actually have checked out. 2. Dr. Holekamp’s visit a. Dr. Holekamp has agreed to come March 25th and talk to our department b. We are still attempting to obtain grants for lunches with graduate students c. We are still attempting to obtain grants for the reception 3. Web Page Update a. Please note the changes to the SNR web page b. They are looking for suggestions to make the graduate club more prominent and to make student life more appealing. If you have any suggestions please write the snrgrads@gmail.com 4. University of Sonora a. Lisa Graumlich, Melanie Culver and Adrian Quijada are trying to start a collaboration program with the University of Sonora. b. Possible student exchanges c. Possible research in Mexico associated to the Univ. of Sonora 5. Updates from Committee Reps. a. Jennifer and Rachel are the 2 reps for the Annual Performance Review i. They have sent out a survey and would like people to fill it out. b. IT committee has submitted a request to the Provost Office to charge student course fees for the computer instructional facility. The fee rate came to $27/student for courses that reserve the use of the facility for instruction. Once the fee rate is approved the committee will move forward with the refresh of the computer lab. c. Other committees haven’t met yet, or if they have most have been discussing the impact about the university wide transformation. 6. Faculty Meeting recap at NGRSO meeting 11/5/08 a. The faculty meeting was mainly about the transformation. b. I explained the budget sweeps and how Cecily managed to save us from the worst of the money loss. The money has been returned to the colleges, and now we must apply to have the funds returned. c. Our white paper led by Lisa was rejected by the Provost. The bulk of discussion was about if we should stay out of the game or is we should make another proposal. Our willingness to work as a team player was noted by the Dean. The proposal that Lisa suggested was to combine us with the Office of Arid Lands. Benefits and costs were discussed. ISPE will continue to invest in the school, but is staying on the sidelines. We will need to decide and put together a proposal by December 15th for implementation on July 1st. d. Bill Matter spoke briefly about the need to complete things for the APR and getting graduate students to take the survey. Minutes for October 2 NRGSO meeting
Started 4:35 Winner of the Graduate student Spring Seminar top 5 · Kay Holekamp · Camille Parmesan · L. David Mech · Kenneth Schmidt · Winona LaDuke Committee Rep. Updates · Curriculum committee: they haven’t met yet, the faculty have not been assigned · O’Brian Diversity Seminar: They will be creating a 1 credit seminar in the spring where the papers of the potential guest speakers will be discussed. They are looking to invite a total of 6 speakers, 3 from outside the University and 3 from within. These speakers will start in the Fall 2009 semester. · Technology Committee: Dr. Guertin has outlined needed improvements to the computer lab. However, the committee will announce such improvements once they decide the final improvements. Club link to our web page is up on the school’s web page. It can be found under Academic Programs and a link on the right Fundraising for Guest Lecture Series · There are several opportunities that the University and ASUA offers for clubs to raise funds. One such option is the Spring Fling Fair. According to past documents, clubs can raise up to $3000 for this event. A possibility if we are interested we can pair up with student chapters within our school and split the profits. · As of right now there was mixed interest in pursuing this idea, but interest in pursuing other ideas for fundraising. Should we be able to raise money it would save us the need to write grants every year, or would allow us to pursue more costly speakers. White Papers and SNR merging with other schools. · CALS has been asked to draft proposals to restructure the schools within its department · Dr. Graumlich, Dr. McClaran and Dr. Matter are all on the committee that is overseeing the organizational restructuring of the Natural Sciences and Engineering units within CALS. · As it stands now, they have drafted a proposal to merge SNR, Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences, and Office of Arid Land Studies into a School of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resources. · The proposal was to be turned in Friday October 3, 2008 for review. o Should the proposal be approved it will submitted to the faculty for voting in ALL affected departments (SNR, SWES, Aird Lands) · The direct impact to graduate students is predicted to be minimal. o New students entering the department will have a different terminology to what their degree is called. o Current students will graduate with their currently named degree no change will take place · They are looking to have all changes/merges/restructuring/organizing done and implemented by the end of this fiscal year beginning of next (June 30/July 1 2009). Link to info: Link http://cals.arizona.edu/dean/reorganization/ You may also view the proposals that President Shelton has called for from each department. These are the ones to affect us, and are attached at the bottom. If you would like more details about the proposal or merger please email kernicholson@yahoo.com or speak to her directly. She will give you as much detail as she currently knows. Otherwise, please talk to your faculty or Dr. Graumlich if you have concerns or questions. You may review all this info from these two attachments Meeting ended at 5:30. |