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Advocacy Opportunities

Advocacy Opportunities. Graduate Assembly (September 2013). Previous Advocacy Items. 2011-2012 Graduate Mental Health Partnered with Counseling and Psychological Services, Grad Mental Health Committee, and Grad Student Affairs Office to determine mental health needs of grads

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Advocacy Opportunities

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  1. Advocacy Opportunities Graduate Assembly (September 2013)

  2. Previous Advocacy Items • 2011-2012 • Graduate Mental Health • Partnered with Counseling and Psychological Services, Grad Mental Health Committee, and Grad Student Affairs Office to determine mental health needs of grads • Conducted mental health survey • Determined patterns in when mental health spikes occur and how to promote resources to grads • GSI Benefits Decentralization • University changed funding structure for GSI benefits, GA worked to ensure didn’t negatively impact number of GSI positions available • Professional Degree Supplemental Tuition (PDST) policy change • PDST increases have negatively impacted many professional students • Lead to a UC wide task force to re-examine PDST policies

  3. Previous Advocacy Items Continued • 2012-2013 • Reducing Mental Health Stigmas • Continue last year’s work around mental health services and reducing stigma within certain communities • Improving Student Org Spaces and Access to Space • Need for more student org/event spaces, esp given Student Union closure • GA/ASUC got grant for room reservation fund (to cover room rental costs for students) • Pilot program in Spring 2014 to turn Barrows into student org space after hours

  4. Grad Student Professional Development • What is it? • Availability of Information • Skill Development • Internship and Long-Term Planning • Faculty Support • Focused on both academic and non-academic career paths • Why Now? • Joint GA/Graduate Division Task Force currently in construction • Professional School and Social Sciences seats still open • We have the opportunity to form a GA Workgroup (see Resolution 1309B) • There is current system-wide UCSA interest

  5. Wellness • What is it? • General awareness and dedication on campus to student wellness broadly construed • Wellness: Mental Health, Fitness, Disability Access, Health Services, etc. • Why Now? • AVC Ron Coley wants to put together a task force on wellness to elevate campus commitment to these issues. • Opportunity to support a new Wellness Center. • Focusing broadly now may help us in our more specific aims in future years. • Wellness Center construction still in discussion (related to last years fee referendum)

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