[Gsc-hca-family] Chance to get funding for your idea! + GSC Family sub-committee Feb meeting minutes

[Anna Häggman]

Hi all,

This is a friendly reminder to fill in your ideas on how to spend some of
the GSC surplus funds on MIT families. Link to the google form*
here<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1FCKVMnx3a7c7j5W6PcNlCRXyn2_4JVpsNQC6wpr9PcY/viewform>.
Please submit your ideas by 11:59pm tomorrow night (Sunday 2/17).*
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Thanks so much!
/Anna




On 9 February 2013 21:37, Anna Häggman <haggman.anna at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
>
> Thank you for a great meeting on Thursday. I'm happy to let you know that
> Emily Wong will be taking on the role of co-chair of the Family
> Subcommittee with me. Welcome!
>
> We also had a surprise visit from Aalap, the GSC vice-president, who
> brought us wonderful news: The GSC has recently acquired more
> funds (roughly $70,000 surplus) than expected, and they are reaching out to
> the graduate community to get ideas and proposals on how to spend some of
> that money. He asked the Family Subcommittee to write a proposal on how
> graduate student families would use $2,000 - $20,000 of that money.
>
> We are reaching out to all the families of the MIT community to help us
> with this proposal. Please fill in your ideas and suggestions in a Google
> form here<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1FCKVMnx3a7c7j5W6PcNlCRXyn2_4JVpsNQC6wpr9PcY/viewform> by
> the end of next week i.e. by Sunday, February 17th.
>
> Obviously childcare is one of the biggest issues for MIT families, so any
> ideas related to that would be very welcome. Any proposals that are
> focusing on sustainable and long-term solutions will have more weight than
> one time events. These are just general guidelines, and we will be happy to
> hear all of your ideas. This is a great opportunity for us to help improve
> the situation of the MIT graduate student families: the money is available,
> now we just need good ideas so that we can get some of the money to spend
> on MIT families!
>
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> Summary of the rest of the meeting:
>
> - Presentation for Dean Christine Ortiz:
>
>    - HCA Chairs will finish compiling peer university data after CoL
>    recommendation is done
>    - Marzyeh (?) will make graphs of applicable CoL data
>    - Emily will look into productivity argument
>    - Anna will make a draft of the presentation
>    - Timeline: We will try to schedule a meeting with Dean Ortiz on the
>    first week of March, after we have made the proposal to GSC by February
>    21st.
>
> - Next meeting: Wednesday, March 13th at 6pm in Eastgate
> We will try to hold monthly meetings on the 2nd Wednesday of the month
> (Monday being our back up day).
>
>
>
> Once again, please fill in the google form - I can't wait to hear all your
> wonderful ideas!
> Thanks,
> Anna
>
>
>
> PS1. Meeting minutes attached.
> PS2. Link to google form:
> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1FCKVMnx3a7c7j5W6PcNlCRXyn2_4JVpsNQC6wpr9PcY/viewform
>
>
>
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