[Gsc-hca-family] HCA committee representative

[Lauren McLean]

Good Morning-

Jonathan & Denise, thank you  for the check-in  and your feedback and it's understandable. With Zoom call  and recruiting, the burnout is significant factor. It also leads me wonder how off-campus families are coping, too.

OGE was hoping to have grad participation in the interview candidates. I was a temp for a maternity leave (April- August) with GSC before  I was hired by OGE the following year. The GSC officers who were transitioning appreciated my connection to a current grad program and experience with the Meng students; the temp job let me  gave me insight on the role.

With the pandemic, this family coordinator may have to put in the role then meet the grads where they are: I'll bring it up with OGE.  Again, thank you.

Best-
Lauren
Lauren McLean
Finance & Event Assistant , MIT GSC Office
laurenm at mit.edu<mailto:laurenm at mit.edu> | 617-253-2195

(Denise, were  there any photos of the Westgate window art installation?  I wanted to see how it turned out)


From: Denise Tellbach
Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2020 9:42 PM
To: Jonathan Behrens <behrensj at mit.edu>; Lauren McLean <laurenm at mit.edu>
Cc: gsc-hca-family <gsc-hca-family at mit.edu>; gsc-officers <gsc-officers at mit.edu>; Jose Javier Gonzalez Ortiz <jjgo at mit.edu>; gsc-hca-chair <gsc-hca-chair at mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [Gsc-hca-family] HCA committee representative


Hi Jonathan, Hi Lauren,



Thank you for your email. For occasional conversations I can establish a contact to the Westgate parent's resource coordinators. If you are looking for a more formal conversation I am happy to advertise this at Westgate (However, most people are tired of Zoom calls, and recruiting has proved to be harder now than during normal times).



Let me know your thoughts.



Best,

Denise


Denise Tellbach | Ph.D. Candidate
Auto-ID Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology



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Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 6:09 PM
To: Lauren McLean
Cc: gsc-hca-family; gsc-officers; Jose Javier Gonzalez Ortiz; gsc-hca-chair
Subject: Re: [Gsc-hca-family] HCA committee representative

Hi Lauren,

We don't currently have an active family subcommittee. At one point Jose (cc'd) was hoping to chair it, but ultimately had too many other time commitments. I've also added the gsc-cha-family alias that includes the eastgate/westgate leadership. I'll let any of them chime in with suggestions if they have anyone they think would be good to reach out to.

Best,
Jonathan

On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 5:27 PM Lauren McLean <laurenm at mit.edu<mailto:laurenm at mit.edu>> wrote:
Good evening,  Officers & HCA Chairs-

I understand OVC/OGE are getting close to naming a Program Administrator for Graduate Student Families.  OGE would want them to connect to ideally, GSC & then other Grad student leadership.

Are there any HCA family subcommittee representatives?  If not, are if there any past Council or Dept reps (those  with a child to two) who came to GCM meetings?

Everyone realizes grad w/families have even more constraints on their time;  we would keep commitments to conversations to get their perspective and grad reps can be either on or off campus.

Thanks for your time--

Lauren
Lauren McLean
Finance & Event Assistant , MIT GSC Office
laurenm at mit.edu<mailto:laurenm at mit.edu> | 617-253-2195

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