COGS General Assembly

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COGS General Assembly

• September 20, 2006

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What is COGS?

• See the websiteit will tell you everything you
  ever did and did not want to know.
• If you resist the hegemony of technologywe have
  highlights off the website and various other
  places in a bounded paper Handbook for COGS reps.
  This is new, so if you have any suggestions of
  things to add or change, let us know.

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COGS Structure
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COGS Executive Committee

• Officers
• PresidentAeleah Soine, History
• Executive Vice PresidentBryan Gordon,
  Linguistics
• Vice President for Internal RelationsDenise
  Feda, Environmental Health Sciences
• Vice President for External Relationsopen
  position
• Vice President for FinanceKristen Nichols,
  Curriculum and Instruction
• Vice President for CommunicationsCaroline Hilk,
  Educational Psychology
• Past President (ex-officio)Sara Kempner, Child
  Development
• Parliamentarianopen position

• Policy and Review Council Chairs
• Languages, Literature and ArtsEden Kaiser,
  Linguistics
• Biological SciencesCarol Powers,
  Agronomy/Plant Genetics
• Health Sciencesopen position
• Engineering, Physical, and Mathematical
  SciencesJoao Boavida, Math
• Social SciencesEli Meyerhoff, Political
  Science
• Education and PsychologySara Kempner, Child
  Development
• These positions also are members of the Graduate
  School Executive Committee in 2006-2007.

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Policy and Review (P R) Councils
Biological Sciences

• Animal Sciences
• Applied Plant Sciences
• Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics
• Biological Science
• Biology (DULUTH)
• Cellular and Integrative Physiology
• Comparative and Molecular Biosciences
• Conservation Biology
• Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
• Entomology
• Food Science
• Integrated Biosciences (DULUTH)
• Landscape Architecture
• Medicinal Chemistry

• Microbial Engineering
• Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology
• Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology and
  Genetics
• Natural Resources Science and Management
• Neuroscience
• Nutrition
• Oral Biology
• Pharmaceutics
• Pharmacology
• Plant Biological Sciences
• Plant Pathology
• Soil Science
• Toxicology
• Wildlife Conservation

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Health Sciences

• Biostatistics
• Clinical Laboratory Science
• Clinical Research
• Dentistry
• Environmental Health
• Epidemiology
• Health Informatics
• Health Services Research, Policy, and
  Administration
• History of Medicine and Biological Sciences

• Nursing
• Occupational Therapy
• Otolaryngology
• Physical Therapy
• Rehabilitation Science
• Social, Administrative, and Clinical Pharmacy
• Surgery Experimental Surgery
• Veterinary Medicine

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Education Psychology

• Audiology
• Child Psychology
• Communication Sciences and Disorders (DULUTH)
• Education, Curriculum and Instruction
• Education/Work, Community, and Family Education
  (including the Ed.D. program in Work, Community,
  and Family Education)
• Educational Policy and Administration
• Educational Psychology
• Kinesiology
• Psychology
• Recreation, Park, and Leisure Studies
• Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
• Speech-Language Pathology

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Engineering, Physical and Mathematical Sciences

• Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics
• Architecture
• Astrophysics
• Biomedical Engineering
• Biophysical Sciences and Medical Physics
• Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering
• Chemical Engineering
• Chemical Physics
• Chemistry
• Civil Engineering
• Computer Science
• Control Science and Dynamical Systems
• Electrical Engineering
• Geological Engineering
• Geology

• Geophysics
• History of Science and Technology
• Industrial and Systems Engineering
• Infrastructure Systems Engineering
• Materials Science and Engineering
• Mathematics
• Mechanical Engineering
• Mechanics
• Physics
• Scientific Computation
• Software Engineering
• Statistics
• Water Resources Science
• DULUTH Applied and Computational Mathematics
  Chemistry Computer Science Electrical and
  Computer Engineering Engineering Management
  Geological Sciences Physics

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Language, Literature Arts

• American Studies
• Arabic
• Art
• Art History
• Asian Literatures, Cultures, and Media
• Classical and Near Eastern Studies
• Comparative Literature
• Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society
• Creative Writing
• Design, Housing and Apparel
• DULUTH Art English Music
• English

• English as a Second Language
• French
• Germanic Studies
• Hispanic Literature
• Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and
  Linguistics
• Hispanic Linguistics
• Italian
• Liberal Studies
• Linguistics
• Luso-Brazilian Literature
• Music
• Rhetoric and Scientific and Technical
  Communication
• Theatre Arts

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Social Sciences

• Anthropology
• Applied Economics
• Business Administration
• Business Taxation
• Communication Studies
• DULUTH Business Administration Criminology
  Liberal Studies Social Work
• Economics
• Family Social Science
• Feminist Studies
• Geographic Information Science
• Geography
• Health Journalism
• History

• Human Resources and Industrial Relations
• Management of Technology
• Mass Communication
• Philosophy
• Political Science
• Public Affairs
• Public Policy
• Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy
• Scientific and Technical Communication
• Social Work
• Sociology
• Strategic Communication
• Urban and Regional Planning

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Open Positions

• University Senate (meets one Thursday per month,
  plus GAPSA meetings)
• Parking and Transportation Advisory Committee
• IT Library Advisory Committee (meets as needed)
• Student One-Stop Advisory Committee
• Student Health Advisory Council (first and third
  Thursdays inside Boynton lunch 1145, meeting
  12-1245)
• CLA Budget Advisory Committee (meets 330-5 on
  each of 12 Sep, 10 Oct, 7 Nov, 5 Dec, 23 Jan, 27
  Feb, 27 Mar, 24 Apr)
• Student On-Campus Stadium Advisory Committee
  (meets twice a semester)- first meeting 25 Sep,
  12-1, 324 Coffman

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Elections

• Vice President for External Relations
• P R Chairs for Health Sciences
• Saibu Sharma
• Senators (7 plus alternates)
• Brett Arenz
• Sarah Roberts
• Nina Alesci (GAPSA) and Garth Willis (Senate)
• Leah Rathbun
• Julia Tabbut
• Iker Lekuona
• Alt Stelios Viazis
• Any volunteers to be Parliamentarian?

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Reports

• NAGPS
• Open Letter 2006
• Advising and Mentoring
• Perception of Overwork
• New Policies and Guidelines
• Orientation
• Tax Issues
• COPE (Council on Public Engagement)
• Fellowship Insurance Coverage

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Graduate Student Life Workshops

• Graduate School Paperwork
• Contact Sara and Carol
• Finding/Choosing Daycare and other Challenges for
  Graduate Student Parents
• Contact
• Fellowship Applications
• Contact Joao
• Volunteers interested in planning these should
  talk to us right away!