1. Welcome and Introductions
   Departments Represented: Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning; Astronomy; Biophysics; Celtic Languages and Literature; Classics; Comparative Literature; DEAS; East Asian Languages and Cultures; English and American Literature and Language; Health Policy; History; History and East Asian Languages; History of American Civilization; History of Art and Architecture; History of Science; Medical Sciences; Middle Eastern Studies; Music; Philosophy; Physics; Political Economy and Government; Sociology; Statistics.

   
   
   

2. Announcements
   • Next Meeting: Wednesday, February 2, 2000, 6:00 p.m., Graduate Student Lounge, Dudley House
   • GSC Conference Grants: Deadline Monday, January 10, 2000. Completed applications due in the GSC Office by 5:00 p.m. (see below for list of departments eligible to apply for grants)
   • 2nd Annual GSC Excellence in Mentoring Award: Deadline for nominations is Monday, February 7, 2000
   
   
   
3. Treasurer's Report

   Request made for student funding:

   • Harvard East Asia Society
     request of $80 for monthly meeting expenses: not carried
     request of $200 for New Year Dumpling Party: carried
     request of $90 for inaugural monthly meeting / social mixer: carried

   • Graduate Environmental and Ecological Network
     request of $245 for startup costs, advertising and meetings: carried

   • Graduate Christian Fellowship
     initial request for $735 for running expenses: reduced to $535 and carried

   
   
   

4. Report from the 1999 National Conference of the National Association of Graduate Professional Students (NAGPS)

   Adam Fagen represented the GSC at the 14th National Conference of the National Association of Graduate-Professional Students in Columbus, Ohio, at which the GSC was awarded a 1999 NAGPS National Program Award for the GSC Excellence in Mentoring Awards, and Adam himself was recognized for his service as 19998-99 Mentoring Awards Committee Chair and Chair of the NAGPS Faculty-Student Relations Committee with a President's Award. His report included the following information:

   • A student survey of all doctoral program is being conducted by NAGPS through the Web site survey.nagps.org.
   • The American Association of University Professors is working on a statement of "Graduate Student Rights and Responsibilities."
   • The next meeting of the Northeast Regional Conference of the NAGPS will be held April 7-8, 2000 (New York City, NY); the next National Conference will be held in October 2000 in Nashville, Tennessee.
   • During the course of the conference the possibility of closer cooperation between the Harvard and MIT graduate student organizations was raised.

   
   
   

5. Survey: Graduate Student participation in faculty search committees

   Thomas Peattie (Music) distributed a survey on graduate student participation in the faculty hiring process; these questionnaires can be returned to the box outside the GSC office, on the second floor of Dudley House.

   
   
   

6. Discussion: GSC co-cponsorship of a new Student Affairs poster for GSAS. Cost: $150

   The motion to support a new Student Affairs poster for GSAS (tabled at the previous meeting) was debated and voted on. The motion was not carried.

   
   
   

7. New Business
   • Harvard Graduate Council event announced: Harvard Graduate Schools Pub Night at the Wonderbar, Brighton (Saturday, December 4th)
   • Possibility of extending opening hours for Widener over Thanksgiving vacation proposed to facilitate international students remaining in Harvard over break

   
   
   

Appendix to Minutes -- departments eligible for January round of GSC grants

The following departments have been represented at at least two meetings of the GSC this semester and are eligible to apply for GSC grants:

Anthropology; Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning; Astronomy; Biophysics; Celtic Languages and Literature; Chemistry and Chemical Biology; Classics; Comparative Literature; Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences; East Asian Languages and Cultures; English and American Literature and Language; Forestry; Germanic Languages and Literature; Government; Health Policy; History; History and East Asian Languages; History of American Civilization; History of Art and Architecture; History of Science; Linguistics; Mathematics; Middle Eastern Studies; Music; Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations; Organismic and Evolutionary Biology; Philosophy; Physics; Political Economy and Government; Psychology; Public Policy; Regional Studies East Asia; Romance Languages and Literature; Sanskrit and Indian Studies; Sociology; Statistics; Study of Religion.