MINUTES
Graduate & Professional Student Assembly
Meeting of the GPSA Finance Commission
October 12, 2011
101B Lincoln Hall
6–8 P.M.
GPSAFC Funding Meeting Minutes:
Commission Attendance:
Mia Tootill, Dipayan Ghosh, Vinay Pagay, Raj Shrestha, Lang Gao, William Hill
Absent: Glenn Garcia, Qiu Wang, Di Wu (unable to attend due to conflicts with the extra meeting that was planned with short notice)
General Committee Notes and Comments:
1.Total October (Meeting 2) Funding Results
| a. Total Requests | = 66 |
| b. Beginning budget | = $68,747 |
| c. Total Approved | = $39,231.56 |
| d. Remaining Budget | = $29,515.44 |
Break Down of Subcategories
2. Late Annual Budget Submissions
| a. Requests | = 43 |
| b. Amount Recommended | = $34,140.05 |
| c. Amount Approved after 5% reduction | = $32,433.05 |
| d. Groups | |
- Amber Dance Troupe
- American Fisheries Society
- Animal Science Graduate Student Association
- Argentine and Uruguayan Friends at Cornell
- Association of Graduates in Theatre
- Cheese Club at Cornell
- Cornell Chinese Christian Fellowship
- Chinese Tennis Club at Cornell
- Chocolate & Confections Technology Club (ChoCTech)
- The Cornell Colombian Student Association
- Communication Graduate Student Association
- Cornell Electron Devices Society
- English Graduate Student Organization
- Expanding Your Horizons
- Gender & Sexuality Reading Group
- German Circle
- Cornell Graduate Consulting Club
- Hotel Graduate Student Organization (HGSO)
- Israeli Student Association
- Ithaca Underwater Hockey at Cornell
- Jade Moore Forum on American Politics
- JGSM - BR MicroCapital
- JGSM - Human Capital Association (HCA)
- Latino Design & Research Lab
- Lebanese Club at Cornell University
- Legendary
- Medieval Studies Student Colloquium
- Cornell University Optical Society of America
- Pandaemonium Germanicum
- Cornell Participatory Action Research Network
- Phi Tau Sigma Honorary Society at Cornell University
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- Plant Biology Graduate Student Association
- Student Chapter Society for Theriogenology
- Sociology Graduate Student Association (SGSA)
- Student Association of the Geneva Experiment Station (SAGES)
- Synapsis
- Technology Entrepreneurship at Cornell - TEC
- Textile and Apparel Journal Club
- Student Chapter of the VET - Academy of Rural Veterinarians
- Student Chapter of the American Association VET - Bovine Practitioners
- VET - Society for Veterinary Ophthalmology
- Women’s Planning Forum
3. Special Request
| b. Amount Approved | = $6,798.51 |
| c. Groups | |
- Astronomy Grads Network
- Chinese Students and Scholars Association
- Chocolate & Confections Technology Club (ChoCTech)
- Cornell Contemporary Chamber Players
- English Graduate Student Organization
- Graduate Association of Chemistry
- Cornell Graduate Consulting Club
- International Planning Student Organization
- JGSM - Association of Veterans
- Pandaemonium Germanicum
- Cornell Participatory Action Research Network
- Proyecto Palante
- Planning Students for Diversity
- Cheese Club at Cornell
- VET - Animal Behavior Club
- VET - Veterinary Business Management Association
Closing Remarks / Additional Planning:
1. This was an additional meeting that was called because the FC was unable to review all of the 82 applications they received the previous week.
a. The chair had divided up the remaining applications between the members and requested that they review them and come to the meeting with notes. However, due to the volume of applications, time constraints, and questions about the funding process, this task had not been completed.
b. Members spent the first part of the meeting finishing reviewing their allocated applications and asking questions about the funding guidelines.
c. The FC spent the second part of the meeting hearing summaries of the applications and individual members’ recommendations. Each application was briefly discussed and an allocation decided upon.
2. It was agreed that the FC would endeavor not to allocate more than $50k in the October funding cycle, as there was only c.$81k left in the funds after the April allocations.
a. It was decided that the remainder of the available funding should be split between the November and December funding cycles, and students should be informed that they would have to submit SPRs for Spring events in the fall.
b. In order to move as close as possible to the $50k allocation cap (between the 10/4 and 10/12 meetings), it was agreed that a 5% cut should be applied to all annual budgets reviewed in this meeting, as had been done previously in the April funding cycle.
3. The FC wanted to fund the Cornell Contemporary Chamber Players, Proyecto Palante, and VET - Animal Behavior Club SPRs, but was unable due to lack of funds. It was agreed that the FC would review these SPRs again the following month.