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| CURRENT GSG PROJECTS AND
COMMITTEES |
The GSG has a number of standing committees. Each committee focuses on a
different area of graduate student life on campus. GSG Committees have
many roles. They study issues, reporting information to the GSG Assembly.
They prepare reports and recommendations. They liaise with the University
administrators responsible for their area of focus.
The GSG is always in need of additional help with projects. If you would
like to volunteer to assist with one of the projects below, or would like
to propose a new project to work on, please send us e-mail.
To learn more about individual projects and committees, click on one of
the committee names below, or simply scroll down to browse.
Overview:
| The Campus Relations Committee has, in the past, worked
on increasing the number of graduate alumni trustees, and worked toward
getting graduate students prox-card access to undergraduate colleges and
dormitories, something implemented in 2001. Broadly, the Campus Relations
Committe works in improving the social and political status of graduate
students on the Princeton campus.More info can be found
on the Campus Relations Committee
Webpage. |
Committee:
| Tom Clark, Brigitta Lee (Chair), Nick Menicucci, Andrew
Moroz, Ian
Parrish, Vaughan Phillips, Renee
Raphael, Elliot
Ratzman, Ari Samsky |
Last Updated:
November 9, 2003
Overview:
| The Children and Dependents Committee was
established in October 2003. It is the GSG's first committee on
issues relating to graduate student family life. The committee is charged
with studying and addressing the challenges faced by graduate students with minor
children or other dependents. |
Committee:
| Tom Jenkins (Vice-Chairman), Rachel Kimbro,
Bethany Michelson, Micah
Watson (Secretary),
Chris
Karpowitz, Kristin Tatum (Chair).
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Last Updated:
November 20, 2003
Overview:
| This project team asks the question, "Is the health
care
and insurance provided by the University adequate for graduate
students?"
The GSG has made much progress in the area of health care in recent
years. The GSG negotiated a dental care plan with Northeast Dental and
Dental and Eye Care discounts with local health care providers. In 2001,
Princeton created some free dental care options and established optional
Dental and Optical Insurance at reasonable rates, thereby bringing an end
to the need for the GSG to supply such services.
The Health Care Committee continues to examine the Princeton Health
Plan. |
Committee:
| Donnell Butler, Cole Crittenden, Nicole
Esparza, Meredith Galanter-Hastings, Leslie Medema, Emily
Snow |
Last Updated:
February 17, 2003
Overview:
| In response to a survey conducted in December 1997, the
GSG created
a "Housing Task Force" to present survey data and seek solutions to
indicated problems. The Task Force became a permanent fixture and has
been very active since the start of the recent housing crisis.
In Spring 2002, the Housing Committee has assembled data and
projections that were presented to the Council of the Princeton University
Community at its May 2002 meeting. The Committee is also trying to
establish regular links with the Lawrence Committee, the Butler Committee,
and the Graduate College House Committee, so that the groups can learn
from each other, pool information, and coordinate the process of working
with University offices from the Housing Department to the Graduate School
on improvements to and expansion of housing.
Most recently, this committee has been working with the Housing Department
on ways to improve the graduate housing draw. |
Committee:
| Eric Adelizzi, Joao Pedro Boavida,
Paul Calamia, Newsha Dau, Aleksandar Donev, Jeff
Dwoskin, Michael
Hsieh, Annika Peter, Lior Silberman (Acting
Chair), Fei Sun |
Last Updated:
January 28, 2004
Overview:
| No gradaute residences were on the University's
original plans for
the campus computer network. The Graduate College was added in the
mid-90's. The GSG's Information Technology Committee has lobbied the
administration to bring ethernet to the Lawrence Apartments and the
Graduate Annexes close to campus in 2001, and to the
Hibben-Magie Apartments in summer 2002.
The Information Technology Committee has also lobbied the Office of
Information Technology to increase graduate disk quotas on the Arizona
system, from 10MB to 30MB, effectibe December 2001. The IT Committee
enjoys a positive working relationship with OIT and continues to examine
University IT policies and lobby for bringing ethernet to the Butler
Apartments. |
Committee:
| Eitan Bonderover (Chair), Tanjim Hossain, Scott
Miller, Lior
Silberman
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Last Updated:
May 13, 2003
| INTERNATIONAL STUDENT CONCERNS |
Overview:
| International students face problems and concerns
distinct from American students, including visa problems, tax issues, and
the recently started English Language Examination. Founded in July 2002,
the standing committee on International Student Concerns is determined to
investigate these problems and see how the GSG can better serve the
international student community.
More info can be found at International
Student Concerns Committee
Webpage. |
Committee:
| Eric Adelizzi, Anita Adhitya, Varghese Baby,
Chen Lee, Weining
Man, Lior Silberman, Fei Sun, Radhika Wijetunge, Lei Xu, Huiyan
Yang |
Last Updated:
March 24, 2004
Overview:
| The GSG's Library Committee was formed at the GSG's
November 2002 meeting to address concerns about the library system in
general and regarding the new science library planning process in
particular. The committee was invested with the powers to investigate the
validity of these concerns. |
Committee:
| Bianca J. Mislowack (Secretary),
Carolyn J. Mordas, Gregory D. O'Mullan, David Shrom (Chair), Lior Silberman |
Last Updated:
October 9, 2003
Overview:
| Each department has a designated PhD program
length--usually
either four or five years. Once you've passed this point, you become
"post-enrolled" (ETDCC, or Enrollment Terminated: Degree Candidacy
Continuing), and several of your student benefits (housing, health
insurance, gym access, etc) are either terminated or quickly phased out.
Princeton's Administration is convinced that this is the best setup after
comparing itself to other Ivy League schools, where Post-Generals students
are enrolled for their entire stay with a lower tuition after generals,
but forced to continually teach to pay their tuition. This, the
Administration says, is unfair to the students because it forces them to
work for a much longer time at a low wage. Additionally, the
administration sees the fixed-length degree term as motivational to
students to get them to graduate sooner.
The downside is that every department except Molecular Biology,
according to the most recent available figures, has a median
time-to-degree that exceeds the maximum term of enrollment.
Post-enrolled students are hindered in their attemps to use the library,
denied deferral of student loans, and sometimes even deported from the
U.S. The GSG seeks an overhaul of the post-enrollment system so that
basic benefits of being a student continue after the end of the program
length. In February 2002, President Tilghman announced the formation of a
committee, to be chaired by Provost Gutmann, to address post-enrollment.
This was considered a major victory by the GSG since it was the first
commitment by the University that the system needs reexamination. The
Provost's Committee is expected to report in the fall.
The Committee also tries to
accumulate knowledge about the policy
and its effects, accessible at this Post-Enrollment
Webpage. |
Committee:
| Eric Adelizzi, Joao Pedro Boavida, Meredith
Safran (Chair), Fei Sun, Jack Tinsley |
Last Updated:
January 15, 2004
| PARKING AND TRANSPORTATION |
Overview:
| Graduate Housing is located on the fringes of campus,
and the
distance from, to take one example, the Lawrence Apartments to the E-Quad,
can imply a 30-minute walk. As the graduate student population is
increasing, more housing is being built at Lawrence and more students are
being pushed off-campus, but parking spaces on campus are not keeping up.
For the past few years, the GSG has been colaborating with the
University, Princeton Borough,
Princeton Township, New Jersey Transit, and the Greater Mercer County
Transportation Management Authority, to establish a daytime campus
shuttle. On February 3, 2003 P-Rides, the campus shuttle
system, had its long awaited debut. Currently, the shuttle serves the
four main on-campus graduate student
residences and key locations on the main campus. For further information,
including a detailed schedule, see the GSG's Campus
Shuttle Page
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Committee:
| Eric Adelizzi, Michael Ludkovsky, Sinéad Macnamara
(Chair), Scott Miller, Meredith Safran, Emily Snow, Donna Sy, Huiyan
Yang |
Last Updated:
September 17, 2003
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