Graduate Student Organization
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- GSO Meeting November 13th, 2007: The GSO held its third meeting for the year on Tuesday, November 13th. To see the minutes from the meeting, click on the Meeting Minutes link.
- SharePoint: The GSO has a SharePoint website. SharePoint is a useful tool where there is always an open forum plus links to upcoming events and meetings. To access it, you need to be registered at the moment. To get registered, email the GSO at gso@marquette.edu. Once you are registered, click on the following link: http://sp.mu.edu/sites/GSO. After this, it asks for a username to log in. Type in the following information to access it:
Username: MARQNET\yourusername
Password: Your username password
Example: MARQNET\1234myname
- UPASS: A survey was constructed to assess student sentiment about
paying a student activity fee (currently only undergraduates pay an activity fee) as well as need for a UPASS (Milwaukee County Transit System Bus Pass), which would be encompassed under a student activity fee. This survey was distributed via email recently. The results of the survey are being assessed.
- Health Insurance: The University now has a contract with United Health Care. United Health Care has expressed much interest in working with Marquette to offer cheaper health insurance to graduate students. The Graduate School hopes to offer this new health insurance within the near future to graduate students. The plan that will be offered is $500 cheaper than that, which was offered in the past. Currently, we are hoping to even lower the cost even more in the near future. The Graduate School will be emailing graduate students with more details.
The GSO represents all aspects of the Marquette graduate student community including:
- Serving as a liaison between the graduate community and the university administration
- Providing an outlet for students' concerns to be acknowledged and addressed
- Advocating for improvements in graduate student life
- Promoting opportunities for growth & unity across all graduate departments and disciplines
Current GSO initiatives include working toward improving the quality & cost of health care available to graduate students, exploring cost-effective transportation options, and enhancing communication outlets amongst graduate student.
Meetings are held monthly every second Tuesday at 11:30AM. All graduate students are welcome & encouraged to attend to express their ideas & concerns, vote on important issues, and help make innovative changes to improve graduate student life.
- Membership is free. All graduate students are considered GSO members by virture of being enrolled in graduate & professional level courses.
- You can be a student leader. The GSO provides a number of opportunities for students to develop, refine, and demonstrate their leadership skills by becoming involved in different ways that may include sitting on a university faculty/administration committee, participating in orientation events, or becoming an elected GSO officer.
- You can be the difference. The GSO provides an outlet for students to be instrumental in making innovative changes & improvements to graduate student life.
- Represent Marquette. The GSO provides students a way to exemplify Marquette's mission of social justice & advocacy.
- Expand your peer group. The GSO is the only organization on campus that represents the entire graduate student community allowing you to meet students across disciplines through its monthly meetings and social events.
- Be the first to get current updates. A primary function of the GSO meetings is to share important university updates that may affect graduate student life allowing you to immediately present your questions and concerns.
- The GSO emerged in 2004 from the efforts of concerned graduate students. Click here to read more about the GSO history.
- The GSO is comprised of two advisers, an executive officer board, and general members.
- One adviser is a staff member of the Graduate School, who provides guidance on predominantly administrative issues as well as serves as a liaison to other Marquette administrators. The other adviser to the GSO is a faculty member, who provides guidance and direction from the viewpoint of the faculty of the University. Click here to meet the GSO advisers.
- The officer board consists of an elected Chair and Vice Chair position as well as a paid Coordinator position. Click here to learn more about the positions and to meet your current officers.
- The general members of the GSO are all graduate students because they are concidered voting members.
- View the GSO Constitution.
Next Meeting: |
Date:June 10th '08 |
Day: Tuesday |
Time: 12:00 pm |
Venue:AMU 252 |
Questions? Comments? You can contact us via any of these means:
Email: gso@marquette.edu
Phone#: (414) 288-7836
Office#: AMU 137B
Mailbox# in Lead Center: 81
