AGENDA
Graduate & Professional Student Assembly
Meeting of the GPSA Finance Commission
November 1, 2011
402 WSH
6–8 P.M.
GPSAFC Funding Meeting Minutes:
‘Commission Attendance: Mia Tootill, Glenn Garcia, Vinay Pagay, Raj Shrestha, Qiu Wang,
Absent: Dipayan Ghosh, Di Wu, (due to conferences), Lang Gao (due to illness), William Hill (due to emergency)
Graduate and Professional Student Attendance:
1. Toniqua Hay (Black Graduate and Professional Student Association)
2. Marquis Hawkins (Cornell Policy Review)
General Committee Notes and Comments:
1. Total November Funding Results
| a. Total Requests | = 42 |
| b. Beginning budget | = $29,515.44 |
| c. Total Approved | = $18,082.44 |
| d. Remaining Budget | = $11,433 |
Break Down of Subcategories (see next page)
2. Late Annual Budget Submissions
| a. Requests | = 9 |
| b. Amount Requested | = 10,907.50 |
| c. Amount Approved | = $4,243.50 |
| d. Groups Examined | |
- Black Graduate and Professional Student Association
- CIPA-New Orleans Professional Partnership
- JD-MBA Association
- Cornell Policy Review
- Psychoanalysis Reading Group (PARG)
- Cornell Swing Dance Club
- ILR School International Graduate Student Association
- Cornell Thai Association
- VET - Student Association of Aquatic Animal Medicine (SAAAM)
3.Special Request
| a. Requests | = 29 |
| b. Amount Requested | = $28,750.96 |
| b. Amount Approved | = $11,262.50 |
| c. Groups Examined | |
- Gender and Sexuality Reading Group
- Jewish Grad Group
- Graduate Christian Fellowship
- Student Association of the Geneva Experiment Station (SAGES)
- International Law Journal
- Cheese Club at Cornell
- Pandaemonium Germanicum
- Philomela
- Victorian Reading Group
- GEEKS (Graduates Employing Empathy, Knowledge, and Service)
- Jugatae
- Graduate Association of Chemistry
- Cornell Contemporary Chamber Players
- Proyecto Palante
- VET - Animal Behavior Club
- Black Graduate and Professional Student Association
- Latina/Latino Graduate Student Coalition
- LAW - Latino American Law Student Association
- LAW - Black Law Students Association (BLSA)
- Society for Asian American Graduate Affairs
- VET - Homophiliacs: LGBT & Allies Veterinary Community
- Out In The World
- Lambda LGBTQ Law Students Association
- JGSM - Out For Business
- Cornell Public Affairs Society
4. Appeals
| a. Requests | = 4 |
| b. Amount Requested | = $4533.38 |
| c. Amount Approved | = $2576.44 |
| d. Groups Examined | |
- Gender and Sexuality Reading Group
- Society for Theriogenology, Student Chapter
- Amber Dance Troupe
- Israeli Student Association
Closing Remarks / Additional Planning:
- 1. The funding situation was discussed and it was decided that the FC would allocate between $15,000 and $17,500 in order to leave some funds for the final month of applications.
- 2. The BGPSA and Policy Review applications were discussed first and officers from these organizations were questioned.
- 3. Members in attendance summarized the applications that they had reviewed and the chair passed on the comments absent members had sent to her.
- 4. The FC wanted to fully fund the Filthy Gorgeous event and SPRs from Philomela and Pandaemonium Germanicum, but were unable due to lack of funds. It was decided that the FC would partially fund and return to these applications In December.
- 5. The meeting overran and finished at 8.30pm.