You are invited to a Zoom webinar.
When: Apr 14, 2023 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Topic: The 9th Regular Meeting of the Graduate Student Senate
We invite you to meet the GSS Officer Candidates for the 2023-2024 academic year! The election will take place starting 9am March 8th - March 10th (ending at 4pm) online through Campus Pulse and you will receive a link to vote right before the voting period.
We hope your semester is off to a great start and we are here to support you! Last Friday, we had our first Senate meeting for the semester. The union for graduate employees at UMass Amherst (GEO) announced that Turkish grad students are requesting support raising funds to donate to disaster relief funds and there is an issues survey to prioritize issues for bargaining our next contract. GSS staff announced the international student taxation workshop and a successful spring transit program with IPO and ISA. The GSS officers announced two (2) events: ice skating and board game night. GSS President Pereira announced the hiring information. The senate voted to endorse a letter to District Attorney Sullivan. The Provost's office presented about a proposed switch from Moodle/Blackboard to Canvas , as well as restructuring University Without Walls to UMass Flex. Senator Prather presented a letter of solidarity from the faculty (encourage faculty to sign!).
The Leadership and staff of the Graduate Student Senate wish to welcome back our returning graduate students and congratulations to the new cohort for choosing UMass Amherst. We are very excited to begin this new semester and support graduate students as they navigate graduate life on campus.