[Bgsa] Please do GSA vote so we can decide about travel grant funding!

[Carla Essenberg]

Hi Folks,

Many of you will remember from the last EEOBGSA meeting that there was
some discussion of the travel grant.  Swanne explained that because
the university is no longer going to be giving us a large chunk of
money that up until now they have contributed to that program, there
will be much less money for the program next year unless we vote to
increase our fees slightly to cover that loss of funding.  If you
aren't familiar with it, the travel grant program is basically free
money to help people pay for going to conferences to present their
work (all you have to do to get it is fill out the application
correctly and get them the appropriate documents on time).  Our
graduate program benefits a lot from this.

Anyway, if you care about that program PLEASE VOTE in the GSA election
(see the link forwarded below) - typically there isn't enough turnout
for GSA elections to decide on things like this, so your vote could
make a big difference.  The polls are only open this week, so do this
now!  (It should take you all of 30 seconds.)

Carla


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: GSA President <president.gsaucr at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 9:51 AM
Subject: [GSAUCR] Fwd: GSA Elections
To: gsaucr at lists.ucr.edu



Hello Grad Students,

Please make sure that you vote in this year's GSA Elections!!  Polls
are open this week only, and we need your help to vote in next year's
Executive Officers.  In addition, we have an important referendum on
the ballot this year - to increase our Conference Travel Grant program
- and we need to get enough students to vote in favor of this
referendum in order for it to be instituted!!  You can vote online at
http://elections.ucr.edu/Pages/default.aspx.  If you have any
questions about this year's elections, please feel free to contact Jen
Wright, Vice President of Academic Affairs at vpaa.gsa at ucr.edu.

Thank you in advance for voting towards the future of the GSA!!

Regards,
Adam

--
Adam Jackson-Boothby
Executive Vice President, 2010-2011
Graduate Student Association, UC Riverside

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-- 
Carla Essenberg
PhD Candidate
Department of Biology
University of California, Riverside