Updates
– Visit Day. Fuck yeah! Mad props to Stefan and Zach.
– E-Week. Sounds like it also went well… enough.
– Sandisk Social Hour: Thanks to everyone that made it happen!
Current Projects
– Student (and Advisor) Review Rewrite
- Initial draft planned for next meeting
- Concept pitched to faculty, very receptive but leery of an overconstrained form
- Faculty suggested guidance (like the rewrite committee has already thought of)
- Some faculty also have issues criticizing their students
- Different for 1st vs 5th years
– Dual Advising Proposal
- Created and submitted initial draft
- Received feedback from Dana
– Student Survey
- Use a 1-7 slider scale
- Demographics – find out who is responding
- Domestic vs international, by advisor, by area
- Ask about post-grad plans
- Ask if post-grad plans have changed during time here
- Faculty want to know how they are doing
- 2nd order hearsay questions (how do you think other labs are doing)
- Do infosessions equal food sinks? (i.e. useless)
Social Events for April
– MSEGSC social planned for 4/22. James is on the ball here.
– Paintball, Lounge opening, Bar night events. Need one per week.
– Social committee to figure their shit out!
– Dana is also doing a social hour! Peter and Alan volunteer to help her out.
FIGURE OUT WHO IS REPLACING YOU OR WHO YOU ARE REPLACING
Revised Mission Statement:
– The Electrical Engineering Graduate Student Association (EEGSA) strives to improve the experience of Berkeley’s electrical engineering graduate students. EEGSA acts as a liaison between students and faculty and coordinates social, professional, and academic events to foster graduate student community.