Harvard Graduate Student Council (GSC)

Welcome to GSAS!
The Harvard Graduate Student Council (GSC) is the voice of graduate students in academic, administrative and residential matters for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) at Harvard University. We are the channel through which student concerns are brought to the attention of the deans and administrative staff of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. It is essential that we hear the concerns of graduate students, and we welcome any suggestions, comments, complaints, etc. that you wish to make! In addition to its representative function, the GSC also organizes a number of events during the year, we award grants for travel and research to students, we sponsor GSAS student organizations, and provide services such as computing facilities and free laser printing in the Library of Dudley House, the Graduate Student Center. See more information here and our brochure here.

GSC Meetings -Next Meeting: March 3 2010

Interested in making a difference for graduate students at Harvard? We will be holding elections for unfilled GSC board positions and soliciting volunteers for a variety of university committees. GET INVOLVED!

Open board positions: At-Large Representatives for the Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary Programs and Masters Students.

Committees positions include: FAS Information Technology Committee, Library Committee, University Committee on Rights and Responsibilities, FAS Commission of Inquiry. For a complete list, please see here

GSC open meetings are held on the first Wednesday of every month (except January) during the semester in the Graduate Student Lounge located on the 2nd floor (mezzanine level) of Dudley House/Lehman Hall (see map). Meetings begin at 6:30pm and include a complimentary pizza dinner.



Student Group Funding
November Student Group Funding: October 23 2009
March Student Group Funding: February 5 2010
April Student Group Funding: March 26 2010

 
Conference and Summer Research Grants
   The deadline for a Winter Conference Grant is: February 10 2010

Mentoring Awards Announcement

The Excellence in Mentoring Award was established by the GSC in 1998-99 to honor those Harvard faculty members who truly go out of their way to mentor GSAS students, honoring faculty for efforts in supporting, encouraging and promoting their graduate students' research, education, professional and personal development, and career plans. The Awards were renamed in honor of Professor of the History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn upon his retiring from the Master of Dudley House in 2002. The GSC received a 1999 Program Award from the National Association of Graduate-Professional Students in recognition of the Excellence in Mentoring Awards.

   The deadline for the Mentoring Awards is February 12 2010

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