College	Department	Name	Attendance
	Art	Karla Lagunas	☐
	Film	Victoria Marshall	☐
	Music	Lukas Hutchinson	☐
	Theatre	Nick Case	☐
College of Hospitality:	Hospitality & Hotel Administration	Jaimi Garlington	☐
Integrated Health Sciences:	Health Physics & Diagnostic Sciences	Clare Bennett	☐
	Kinesiology & Nutrition Sciences	Donya Shahamati	☐
	Physical Therapy??	VACANT	☐
	Brain Health	Steph | Stephanie Apodaca	☐
Boyd School of Law:	Law	Dionne Stanfill	☐
College of Liberal Arts:	Anthropology	Emily Edmonds	☐
	English	Carlos Tkacz	☐
	History	Tyler Rodney	☐
	Political Science	Lila Hearn	☐
	Psychology	Hoor Ul Ain	☐
	Sociology	Drue Sahuc	☐
	World Languages & Cultures	VACANT	☐
School of Medicine:	Couple & Family Therapy	Melissa Ceballos Can’t find in updated seat tracking	☐
	Medicine	Daniel Aynlender	☐
School of Nursing:	Nursing	Laura Chechel	☐
College	Department	Name	Attendance
School of Public Health:	Environmental & Occupational Health	Emylia Terry	☐
	Healthcare Admin & Policy	Sisinyous Zerihun Mengesha	☐
	Epidemiology & Biostatistics	Amruta Godbole	☐
	Social & Behavioral Health	Ana Gonzalez	☐
College of Sciences:	Chemistry & Biochemistry	Jenny | Jennifer Napoles	☐
	Geoscience	Sierra Ramsey	☐
	Life Sciences	TJ | Thomas Crippen	☐
	Mathematical Sciences	Ali Balooch	☐
	Physics & Astronomy??	VACANT	☐
College of Urban Affairs:	Communication Studies??	VACANT	☐
	Criminal Justice	Elisha Longoria	☐
	Journalism & Media Studies	Leena Atout	☐
	Public Policy & Leadership	Christine Nolan	☐
	Social Work	Emily Arriviello	☐
Interdisciplinary Programs:	Integrated Health Sciences	Katie | Katherine Bricarell	☐
	Data Analytics & Cybersecurity?? This is different than the seat tracking	Anne Poole	☐

*Members may have been appointed by their department between the time of agenda posting and the meeting. All other members present will be available in the Minutes and listed below.

Members-at-Large: Amrit Shahi – Civil and Environmental Engineering Kevin Navarrete-Parra – Political Science Miriam Borvick – School of Medicine Joe Cadiz – Nursing

Members of the Public Present: Virginia Smercina – Business Manager Bill Robinson – Faculty Advisor John Colombo – Faculty Advisor

AGENDA

1. CALL TO ORDER
2. ROLL CALL
3. PUBLIC COMMENT                                                                            INFORMATION ONLY

(See foregoing notation regarding public comment)

4. APPROVAL OF MINUTES                                                                  FOR POSSIBLE ACTION

4a) The GPSA Council will consider approval of the minutes from the August 2024 Council Meetings (44-04) as posted to the public GPSA Drive.

5. REPORTS & RECOMMENDATIONS                                               INFORMATION ONLY

5a) Executive Board

1. 1. President

President Marie will report to the GPSA Council concerning UNLV related issues or events important to the UNLV graduate student body.

• Graduate Student Life Project Updates
• Shadow Lane Updates
• Passing of Graduate Student Colleague Tatiana Marshall
• Update on sponsorship disbursements
  2. Vice President

Vice President Carr will report to the GPSA Council concerning UNLV related issues or events important to the UNLV graduate student body. Updates about sponsorship program.

1. 3. Treasurer

Treasurer Lopez will report to the GPSA Council concerning UNLV related issues or events important to the UNLV graduate Student body. This includes the budget report for the past month.

1. 4. Secretary

Secretary King will report to the GPSA Council concerning UNLV related issues or events important to the UNLV graduate Student body. Provide a brief training on Robert’s rules.

5b) President’s Cabinet

• • • Director of Communications & Marketing
    • Director of Engagement & Outreach
    • Attorney General (vacant)

5c) GPSA Business Manager & Advisor

• Business Manager Virginia Smercina will report to GPSA Council concerning UNLV related issues or events important to the UNLV graduate student body.
  • Changes to the Graduate Commons Space
• GPSA Faculty Advisor Dr. Bill Robinson will report to GPSA Council concerning UNLV Related issues or even important to the UNLV graduate student body.
• GPSA Faculty Advisor Dr. John Colombo will report to GPSA Council concerning UNLV Related issues or even important to the UNLV graduate student body.

5d) GPSA Committee Reports

Ways and Means:

Sponsorship:

Constitution & Bylaws:

5e) UNLV Campus-Wide Committees

Representatives serving on any external committee on GPSA behalf may use this time to provide updates.

5f) UNLV Departments/ Units

5. • • Graduate College:
6. UNFINISHED BUSINESS                                                                                FOR POSSIBLE ACTION

Unfinished Business is any motion or action item that was under discussion and was postponed or moved to this meeting at the discretion of the public body as approved by the chair.

6a) Graduate Campus Committees                                                                       INFORMATION ONLY

Secretary King requests time for the discussion of the campus committees that have seats available GPSA students. 2 mins

Interest Form here:  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScsEFMzEmahR7EpegLQ4tvAdjQA8K2ERHGZ7xNLNZnqE8MeDQ/viewform

6b) Internal Committee Interest                                                                           INFORMATION ONLY

Secretary King requests time for the discussion of the campus committees that have seats available GPSA students. 2 mins

Interest Form here:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSctJ2ExkI0bcRAITBsiolOTgyZwd2xK1-a-SkDRm9QZTbDefg/viewform?usp=sf_link

7. NEW BUSINESS                                                                                                FOR POSSIBLE ACTION

New business is any motion that is new to this meeting. All items will be for possible action unless otherwise stated.

7a) Vote on OIT Proposed Fee Increase                                                          FOR POSSIBLE ACTION

President Marie requests time for discussion and possible action on the proposed student technology fee increase from $11/credit to $18/credit. This fee supports canvas, email, access to wifi on campus, as well as the RebelCard access.

7b) UNLV Cares Program Presentation                                                          INFORMATION ONLY

Director Hall requests time to give a presentation about the Cares Program at UNLV. 10 mins

7c) UNLV Office of Student Affairs                                                                 INFORMATION ONLY

Associate Vice President of Student Life, Dr. Merino Contino requests time to give a presentation regarding student life feedback and discussion of student life fee. 10 mins

7d) UNLV Wellness Center Update                                                                 INFORMATION ONLY

UNLV Wellness center requests time to give update about the wellness center resources and the fee increase that was approved by BoR June 2024. 10 mins

7e) November Graduate Appreciation at the Dining Commons                   INFORMATION ONLY

Director of Engagement and Outreach Gutierrez requests time to talk about the second graduate appreciation event at the dining commons held Wednesday, November 13^th, 2024. 5 mins

Volunteer Interest:

Email: GPSA.eo@unlv.edu

7f) December Meetings & Events                                                                     INFORMATION ONLY

President Marie requests time to discuss December council meeting and events 5 mins

7g) Call for New Business Items                                                                     INFORMATION ONLY

Items for consideration at future meetings may be suggested. Discussion is limited to description and clarification of the subject matter of the item, including the reasons for the request; emergency items  added at the discretion of the President (GPSA Bylaws Article IV, Sec.3).

8. ANNOUNCEMENTS                                                                                         INFORMATION ONLY
   - Research Forum 2025 April 12, 2025.
   - Next Meeting will be MONDAY December 2nd, 2024 @ 5:30pm
9. PUBLIC COMMENT                                                                                        INFORMATION ONLY

(See foregoing notation regarding public comment)

10. ADJOURNMENT                                                                                              FOR POSSIBLE ACTION