(sent Feb 10, 2021)

February 3rd, GSA General Body Meeting Minutes & Slides

Virtual Events:

• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Celebration
  • University Lecture Series: A Conversation with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
    • Wednesday, Feb. 10 | 5 pm | Register here
• December Student Affairs Events can be found here
• December Grad-ed events can be found here

Other Opportunities:

• Apply to the Tartan Emergency Support Fund and the Student Food Insecurity Fund if you are facing any hardship (Apply Here)
• GSA Special Allocations
  • Get funding for new initiatives or projects that benefit the graduate student experience
  • Find more information and how to apply here
• Child Care Grants
  • $500 to help off-set cost of child care
  • Find more information and apply here

• Appointments for Legal Consultation for Spring now open <sign-up here>

📢 Exec Updates and Announcements:

• Special Allocations. Find the details on these allocations here
  • International Film Festival: Allocated $5,000
• Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
  • To help us learn about EDI efforts across campus, please complete this survey <here>
• University Libraries Focus Group
  • Seeking grad students to partake on a 60-minute group (6 people) conversations on their experiences/perceptions of the University Libraries
  • Email Shannon Riffe <sriffe@andrew.cmu.edu> for more information and to participate.
• University Support Childcare Options
  • Family Care for COVID-19

🏫 Appointment and Confirmation of GSA Partner & Family Co-advocates

• Regan Kubicek - PhD Candidate in Mech. E. 
• McKenna McCall - PhD Candidate in ECE

🌱 Presentation and Q&A with Sustainability Initiatives at CMU

• Reps had an opportunity to ask about what CMU is doing to tackle the Sustainable Development Goals

💰 Presentation and Q&A with the administration on COVID-19 Actions and Tartan Testing

• Reps asked about vaccination, testing, and actions CMU is doing to keep everyone safe

📢 Lastly, here are some resources discussed previously that are relevant today:

• If you are having any difficulty transitioning to working remotely, contact your college liaison, GSA <gsa@cmu.edu>, or the Grad. Ed. Office 
• You can watch CMU Group X classes on demand
• Learn about how to utilize the CMU Pantry
• Stay updated with the latest developments around the COVID-19 on the CDC website and the CMU coronavirus website
• To help you transition into virtual classes, look into these Resources for Living and Working Remotely 
• You can subscribe to CaPS’ distribution list here
• GSA’s Response to Confronting Racism (GSA Statement)

• AntiRacism Starter Kit
• AntiRacist Resources 1 | 2
• South Asian Allyship for Black Lives 1 | 2
• Resources for Education 1 | 2

Attached Documents

• Meeting Minutes
• Meeting Slides 
• Jan. Special Allocations

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Thank you,

Santiago D. Carrasquilla
VP of Internal Affairs

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