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The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly discussed and voted on proposals and resolutions to address rising costs of parking and installing Plan B vending machines on campus.
“Every year, all of our GPSA counterparts from the Ivy League plus schools get together to discuss the state of our groups as well as initiatives we’re working on. It’s a kind of networking plus sharing of information and strategy,” said GPSA president Preston Hanley grad.
At Monday’s GPSA meeting, the assembly heard presentations on the history of the assemblies at Cornell and on the campaign to provide free period products in bathrooms across campus.
In a virtual Monday meeting and its first of the semester, the GPSA filled three vacancies and planned for in-person meetings as soon as next week.
University president Martha Pollack spoke at the last GPSA meeting of the semester, touching on University finances and mental health.
A new resolution passed by the Graduate Students and Professionals Assembly, the Student Assembly and the University Assembly advocates making Veteran’s Day a University holiday.
The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly convened on Monday to fill two vacancies, with three vacancies remaining.
We are reaching out to you as the respective presidents of the Graduate Professional Student Assembly (GPSA) and Student Assembly (SA) to express student concerns over the events that took place on the Ithaca campus the afternoon of November 7th.
Last Monday, the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly heard presentations from the Public Safety Advisory Committee and the Title IX office in a Monday meeting before passing a resolution to honor Veterans Day with a University-wide break.
During Monday night’s meeting, the GPSA passed a resolution calling on the University to better accommodate quarantined students, and held elections for vacant positions, including for the role of vice president of operations.