Graduate Student Centre Proposal

This is a Graduate Student Centre Proposal from 2005. Given the current fiscal state of California, it is unlikely to come into fruition in the near future. However, it remains a proposition the GSA is open to implementing.

• To give rise to and sustain a cohesive graduate and professional student body that encompasses and supports the richness of our ethnic and disciplinary approaches to academia.

• Support Graduate Student Life
  

• enhance quality of interactions
  

• expand student life beyond the laboratory, classroom, or office
  

• exchange of ideologies, methodologies and aspirations of graduate students
  

• A Visual Presence
  

• visual space act as a graduate and professional student focal point
  

• would exemplify the value UC Davis holds for grad and professional students
  

• Quality of Life
  

• would make graduate education and postdoctoral scholarship more attractive to prospective students
  

• provide social and administration interactions to ensure high quality of life
  

• would contribute to "rich and engaging personal life" that in addition to strong academics, is essential to graduate and postdoc success

• Social/intellectual/cultural activities
  

Open multi-use space used for presentations, gatherings, productions, game room, children's play area


• Meeting Spaces
  

Conferences, colloquia, several smaller breakout rooms for seminars, discussion groups, student organization meetings


• Media/computer/study labs
  

Quiet independent work


• Café & Juice Bar
  

Provides a variety of beverages and café style food


• Services
  

Information kiosk, Graduate Student Association, Postdoctoral Student Association offices, fax, copiers, telephones, student lockers and facilities storage


• Administrative Activities
  

Office of Graduate Studies, Graduate Financial Aid, Graduate Internship & Career Center, Professors for the Future

• State funds for administrative services
  

• Capitol campaign
  

• Various Graduate student groups responsible for own furnishings, technology, etc. This proposal was part of Sheri Tatsch's 2003-04 action agenda during her term as Graduate Student Assistant to the Dean and Chancellor. We thank Sheri for all of her hard work and we look forward to working with the Office of Graduate Studies to make this project come to fruition for future graduate students.

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