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If you have an event you'd like posted to the calendar please email gsapro@ucdavis.edu or gsaexternalchair@ucdavis.edu

If you are not getting the weekly announcements, they are posted here GSA Weekly Announcements.

As the GSA is a non-partisan organization these announcements are provided for your information and are not an official endorsement of events by the Graduate Student Association. The GSA Executive Council has drafted documents to address the fee increase issue, UCD GSA EC Fee Statement.pdf. We will bring this document to the General Assembly in December.

UCDOC (UCD Organizing Committee) is a group of concerned graduate students, formed in response to the ongoing crisis within UC, primarily to publicize the crisis and events surrounding it; as well as to help educate the UCD community. We actively seek new members from all departments on campus—the more voices, the better we can speak to the situation of UCD as a whole. To date we have undertaken numerous educational and mobilizing projects. In actively seeking new members, we actively seek and encourage still more new projects.

The UC Davis Organizing Committee is organizing events over the next week in support of the system-wide strike called to support students protesting the 32% fee increase the Regents will vote on at their meeting at UCLA November 19, 2009. Please see the UC Systemwide Walk-out page for more information.

Looking for Office Ultimate for $60 or an upgrade to Windows 7 for just $30, check out our new page devoted to publicizing great buys for grads.

The UCD GSA has drafted document to request the Regents support a system-wide mandate for graduate (professional) student health insurance, GSHIP Statement.pdf. We were also featured in the Aggie on this issue November 17, 2009.

The new UNITRANS H-Line provides free service to and from Silo/Health Sciences district.

Elections were at the June Assembly meeting; congratulations!

Malaika Singleton, Chair
Karinna Hurley, Vice Chair
Marrah Lachowicz-Scroggins, External Chair
Erica McKenzie, Treasurer
Trina Filan, Secretary
Stacey Ellis, PRO
Adam Costanzo, COD

Erica McKenzie (GSA Treasurer), Marrah Lachowicz-Scroggins (GSA External Chair), and Cynthia Degnan (GSADC) are currently serving on an ad-hoc committee to evaluate the student affairs budget for 2009-2010. We've created this page Student Affairs Budget for you to leave your comments.

• Concerned about the UCD budget? Please our page for news briefs UC Budget or get the latest UC Davis budget information on Budget News. If you are interested in the general University of California System Budget, please see the following document UC Budget Myths and Facts
  

• May budget revise causes another mid-year crisis for UC funding for more information UC May Review and for information on how the state schools are affected see CalState May Review

• If you are interested in learning more about the effects of the state's budget crisis on the UC system and UC Davis in particular, the administration has set up a SmartSite to facilitate community discussion of the these vital issues.

• UC System-wide 9/24 Walk-out and ongoing events by the Davis Organizing Committee: please see UC Systemwide Walk-outfor more information.

Interested in what goes on on campus? Want to make a difference? Please volunteer to sit on a Campus Committee. See Committee Openings to get involved today! There are also opportunities to serve on system-wide committees, please see System Committees to apply.

Congressman Patrick Kennedy (D-RI, right) with GSA External Chair Marrah Lachowicz-Scroggins. Rep. Kennedy received an award on behalf of his father, the late Ted Kennedy at the Committee for Education Funding Legislative Conference September 30, 2009

GSA is advocating for YOU! Please contact Marrah at External Chair for more information.

Concerned about Sustainability issues on campus and in the City of Davis? Please see our page for Sustainability Information and Resources.

Post your Photos of grad student life!

The Graduate Student Association would like to welcome our new students to campus. Have a question about grad student life? Ask A Grad Student

To help you get acquainted with our campus, be sure to read our New Student Guide.

For more resources for those new to Davis, be sure to see our sister site, Davis Wiki.

• Attention Representatives: If you are not receiving our emails, please contact the GSA Office at gsa@ucdavis.edu so we can be sure to add you. Our rep listserv experienced some problems, and several people's names did not get added. Also, if you faxed your rep registration form during the month of October, please check in with the GSA Office to ensure we received it, as our fax machine was broken during some of October and we may not have received it.
  

• Keep up with everything GSA related by adding yourself to the GSA listserv and checking for activities tailored to graduate student interests GradLink.
  

• Join the GSA and Grad Studies Facebook groups.
  

• New Extramural Funding listed DEADLINES APPROACHING FAST!
  

• CBDD is a regular event 9:00-11:00 AM every Friday throughout the year in the GSA Office, come join us for some free food and a chance to socialize!
  

• BENEFITS UPDATES Optometry benefits are now included in SHIP insurance. NAGPS offers Dependent Healthcare benefits through United Health Care. University of California establishes Academic Student Employee (ASE) child care reimbursement program childcare.pdf.
  

• Discounts for students now offered by the Office of Graduate Studies through a partnership with Cal Aggie Alumni Association
  

• Davis Humanities Institute has a DHI listserve for graduate students who want to receive news of events, funding opportunities, and other items of interest to graduate students in the humanities and humanistically-oriented social sciences at UC Davis.

For upcoming events check out the Events Board. If you know of any events, or to create one of your own, post them at the bottom of the Events Board page!

The Geography Graduate Group is interdisciplinary with faculty from more than twenty departments and centers on campus. GGG students are doing research in areas of the humanities, natural sciences, and everywhere in between. The group has three representatives at the GSA General Assembly: Alison McNally, Josh Perlman and Craig Beebe. Their departmental graduate student association is known as SAGE (Students Advocating for Geographic Education) and has been in its current form since the students organized in the 2007-2008 academic year to ensure their interests were considered in administrative decisions. The geography students have been actively involved in building the core curriculum for their graduate group. In addition to SAGE, several of the students have formed GLOBAL: Geography Club as a social organization in 2007. Students with geographical interests from all over campus are welcome to join GLOBAL.

Interested in being the GSA's next Featured Group? Contact the GSA's Public Relations Officer at <gsapro AT ucdavis DOT edu> for more information.