Computer Science Graduate Council Meeting Notes – February 10th , 2006

GSA

• Green Fee major topic:
  • This is a comprehensive fee that would be to make the buildings more energy efficient.
  • Saving on energy of about $36,000 but it costs only $25,000 per floor.
  • Should be only an initial investment made instead of a continuous amount put in by the students and the amount saved should be put towards doing other floors.
  • The green fee can change year by year
  • There were comparisons to UVA's green fee but UVA does different things than we are trying to do
  • Also green fee to pay for recycling bins for each room.

GPC

• There has been talk on how to change the yearly form for progress made on degree
  • Want more adviser impact
• There is now no need to turn in a milestone form when turning in your plan of study for Ph.D. students
• Action point: bring up change to modify the GPC web page
  • Make useful for grad students
  • Explain the differences in requirements
  • Make useful for incoming grad students
    • Different web pages?
• 90-95% of the time spent in this meeting is on how to recruit better students
  • How to get more students to move from masters to Ph.D.
• There is a March recruitment meeting
• Action point: Department is going to probably request help, recruit people
• With the move to the CRC there has been talk of trying to get a CSCW software to support collaboration between people who have and have not moved to the CRC.

CRC

• Concern: how many computers are needed
• Concern: network ports
• Action point: make printing per page cheaper
• Request: LCD monitors for CRC move because desk space is so small
• Request: Ticketing system for putting in tech support requests

Funding Policy

• Updated : take away requirement to send email to Netta after return since this is not our responsibility to cover
• Update: Sending out email 2 weeks before as a reminder
• Update: Change policy about contacting individual members of the grad council about getting funding.