[Gsaucr] GSA Newsletter!

[GSA UCR]

In this week's GSA newsletter, you will find
announcements concerning:

1.  Apply to be the GSA Finance Officer
2.  GSA Conference Travel Grant Application Training
Session-Wednesday, October 24th 6:30 pm
3.  Graduate Students for Campus Committees
4.  UCSA Student of Color Conference - November 10-12 
5.  UCSA Survey
6.  The Search for the next UC President
7.  Register to vote!
8.  G.R.O.W. (GrassRoots Organizing Weekend) at UCR
9.  Letter to UC Professional Students from UCSA
Graduate and Professional Committee Chair 
10.  GSA Conference 2007-2008


Please read below for detailed information on each of
these announcements:

1.   Apply to be the GSA Finance Officer
If you are interested in holding this position in its
inaugural year, please visit the GSA Website Main Page
for job description and application
form.??http://www.gsa.ucr.edu/index.html??Applications
are due next Monday Oct. 22nd, 2007 at 5pm via
email!??Candidate speeches will be held during the GSA
Council Meeting on November 7th, 2007 at 6pm, with the
special election immediately following.??If you have
any questions, please contact the GSA EVP Louise
Hendrickson at evp.gsaucr at yahoo.com

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2.  GSA Conference Travel Grant Application Training
Session - Wednesday, October 24th 6:30 pm??The GSA
Conference Travel Grant Coordinator will be holding
another training/Q&A session to help students
understand all the steps required for applying for a
conference travel grant.  If you are interested in
applying for a conference travel grant and want to be
sure that your application will not be denied and that
you get PAID, I strongly recommend that you attend. 
This is also your opportunity to meet the travel grant
coordinator and an opportunity for you to address
questions and concerns about the program.  The session
will be at 6:30 pm on Wednesday, October 24th in the
senate chambers next to the GSA office (203 Commons).

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3.  Graduate Students for Campus Committees

A few seats remain on several campus committees.  In
order to ensure UCR is a hospitable environment for
graduate students, please share your perspective by
participating in one of these committees.  Interested
parties please contact Erik Kolb (zookolb at yahoo.com )
or Alex Cortez (gsaucr at yahoo.com) we look forward to
your participation. 

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4.  UCSA Student of Color Conference (SOCC) @ UC Santa
Cruz

The UCSA Student of Color Conference (SOCC) will be
held at UC Santa Cruz this year on November 10-12th.

* Learn to organize your Student of Color Community
* Build unity
* Participate in safe spaces where race, gender,
class, sexuality, nationality and disability will be
actively discussed

GSA UCR will pay for all transportation, registration,
lodging, and per Diem for GSA UCR grads that attend
this conference.

If you have any questions or are interested in
attending, please contact the GSA EVP Louise
Hendrickson at evp.gsaucr at yahoo.com

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5.  UCSA Survey??UCSA is currently conducting an
organizational assessment, and they would like to hear
from you as a UCR Grad Student! Please take a few
minutes to fill out a short survey and let them know
what you think about how they are doing. Your feedback
is important to UCSA!??Click the link below to
participate in the survey:
http://votervoice.net/target.aspx?id=ucsa:18605785??Please
feel free to forward this link to any UC Students or
UC Listservs!

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6.  The Search for the next UC President

The UC is looking for a new President of the system,
as President Dynes resigned in August. UCSA just
appointed students from across the system for the
Student Advisory Committee.

The committee wants your stories/concerns! Tell us:
What are things that make it hard to attend a UC? What
do you want the next UC President to work on to make
the UC better for students? Don't let these questions
limit you; we want to hear about any problems or
concerns. Post or send your stories on the UC Student
Association Blog at: http://ucstudents.blogspot.com/

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7.  Register to vote!

Voter registration cards are available in the GSA
office. Stop by to fill one out if you have just moved
to CA, if you have moved recently, or want to update
your political party or any other information.

GSA will mail the form in for you; just leave it with
the GSA EVP Louise Hendrickson or the ASUCR EVP Alex
Johnson at the GSA/ASUCR offices!

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8.  G.R.O.W. (GrassRoots Organizing Weekend) at UCR

GrassRoots Organizing weekend is a training hosted by
the United States Student Association (USSA) where
students have the opportunity to learn not only
grassroots tactics but organizational development
skills as well. come and learn how to win viable
campaigns for your organization while you network with
other students.

The weekend starts Friday, November 2, 2007 at 5:30pm
and ends Sunday, November 4, 2007 at 3:00pm

If you would like to sign up, please email:
ASUCRexternal at yahoo.com

Or go to the ASUCR/GSA office 202 New Commons

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9.  Letter to UC Professional Students from UCSA
Graduate and Professional Committee Chair

Dear UC Professional Student,

The UC Regents this past September agreed to a 3 year
fee-increase plan specifically for professional
students.  This plan calls for increases of
approximately 7-13% a year.  If you are in school now
and have three more years, you could be paying almost
150% of what you pay now in fees by your last year!

While some professional students may graduate and
pursue lucrative careers in their respective
industries, there are more than just a few of us who
are interested in public interest work. 
Unfortunately, without loan repayment programs, as
fees increase (and public interest work salaries
remain low) it becomes more and more prohibitive for
us to give back to the communities we wish to serve.

At present, the UC Student Association is trying to
gather data from individual professional schools from
all ten campuses regarding their own in-house loan
repayment programs.  We are hoping to consolidate this
information to argue for more institutional funding
for these programs.  The Regents affirmed their
interest in this endeavor by adopting a supportive
amendment to the fee policy passed in September of
this year.  If you, or anyone you know, are interested
in helping us in this endeavor (specifically by
researching the loan repayment program options at your
school), or if you are simply interested in learning
more about loan repayment programs, please email
ahnika at gmail.com (UCSF Medicine).

Good luck to you in your studies! 

-Ahnika Kline
UCSA Graduate and Professional Committee Chair
UCSF Medicine and PhD.

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10.  GSA Conference 2007-2008

The GSA Conference is a graduate student run
conference that showcases the talents and research of
UCR Graduate Students. If you want to help choose the
theme and participants for the 2007-2008 GSA
Conference, as well as set the structure and dates,
please sign up to be on the committee or as the
committee chair (which is a paid position!) Help make
this year's conference the best ever!

Contact the GSA Vice President of Academic Affairs
Erik Kolb to apply or for more information at:
zookolb at yahoo.com


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If you would like more information, please go to the
GSA website or contact the GSA at gsaucr at yahoo.com.

Graduate Student Association
203 Commons
University of California Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521

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