GSC Meeting Friday 26 January 2007 Minutes (First Meeting for Spring Semester)
Thanks to all who attended.
Report from faculty meeting reps – Steven Dow of IIC and Kamesh Madduri of CSE
Kamesh – nothing to report.
Steven – reports on success of coffee and cookie break
Updates
School names official
We are now officially the School of Computer Science (formerly CSS), the School of Interactive Computing (formerly IIC) and CSE division, all in the College of Computing. The PhD in CS is owed by the College of Computing.
Spring recruiting Feb 22-24
Its official – Spring recruiting is moving to a pre-admissions model and the weekend is earlier this year – Feb 22-24 – it is not clear what the role of students will be this year. Ellen Zegura added a few words – recruiting is going to probably take place by Area e.g. HCI recruiting, Networks recruiting etc.
Grad Teas
Chris Parnin is planning a grad tea with an international flavor in the next two weeks. He will try find a time that doesn’t compete with the time slot for the IC coffee and cookie break.
Travel funds
Marshini reported that there has not been a high demand for either the $200 or $1000 grants. Since all is working well using email and paper applications, we have decided not to implement web forms. If demand for the $1000 doesn’t increase, we might think of increasing the overall money for the small grants and doing away with the $1000 grants. Dave R suggested setting up an automated reminder to tell people to apply. For the next GSC meeting, we will try to get official figures of application numbers for each grant type.
Actions: We will re-evaluate the travel funds policy after the first set of $1000 applications have been reviewed on Feb 1 and depending on how demand goes in the next few months. Marshini will send out an email to remind people to apply for travel funds.
Women@cc:
Tracy (via email) reported that a mailing list has been set up called talk@women@cc for female students and faculty in the CoC and that the first female on campus retreat will be on Feb 2 – details to come.
TSO report:
Dave R. reported that mailman is not working and that TSO is aware of it. Also, CoC is considering decreasing support for Unix mail and moving CoC email to OIT. However, for research in CoC since email is a crucial tool, TSO research (with director Randy Carpenter) will consider alternatives so that email can still be supported within CoC.
Re: lab managers - there are plans to move to a “Spencer model” soon and provide GRAs/GA’s to support more people for TSO.
Dave R is still working with TSO on a plan to be implemented in the new academic year to ensure all new students have a desk and a computer.
Action: Dave R will keep us posted.
PhD Admissions
Alan reported that he has identified Keith Edwards as being on the admissions committee. He is planning on attending the upcoming admissions meeting.
Action: Alan will keep us posted on whether he finds out anything about recruiting.
Faculty Recruiting
Currently Bryan Payne has been unable to attend faculty recruiting meetings in CSS.
Action: Bryan will try to find out how best to participate in faculty recruiting meetings so that student feedback on faculty candidates is received by the relevant people on the recruiting committee.
Action: Bryan will keep us informed on whether he is able to participate in the committee.
Concern raised: Students need info on funding
Chris Parnin feels new students should receive more information on ways to get funding (e.g. GTA/GRA etc) – this could be incorporated into 7001 and/or in the PHD Faculty Review meeting held in the Fall.
Action: Dave L will keep us informed about the 7001 curriculum.
TA requirement
Dave L has not heard anything else about the TA requirement for PhD students or 7001.
Action: Dave L will keep us posted.
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Next Meeting scheduled for Feb 23 in TSRB