The Graduate Student Association would like to meet with each graduate group in order to find out what issues are most
important to you at UC Merced. While discovering what services need improvement and how we can work to maintain
the services that you do like, we hope to receive nominations and cast votes for the Delegate Assembly:

The Delegate Assembly aims to increase consistent communication among individual graduate groups and your Graduate
Student Association officers. Representatives on the Delegate Assembly will be responsible for relaying graduate group
specific academic and non-academic grievances and working with GSA officers on improving graduate student satisfaction.

We will be holding graduate group specific focus groups this week in order to accomplish this. Please see the attached flyer for specific dates, times, and room assignments. We really hope to see a good turnout for each graduate group. Due to the feedback we got from last year’s focus groups, Dean Traina expedited a planned audit of our hiring process into the spring of last year. The report suggested a complete overhaul of the system, by moving the hiring into the schools. This will eventually be implemented; a pilot of it will hopefully be taking place next semester. The audit has already made appointments a priority, creating a more efficient hiring process that was hopefully noticeable this past semester.

Domino’s Pizza will be provided and by taking the survey you will enter to win one of three $50 gift cards to the University bookstore!!

If you can’t attend but would like to submit a nomination for the delegate assembly or cast a vote, please let us know as soon as possible (gsa@ucmerced.edu).

We hope to see you there!

GSA