Following is an update from the December meeting of the Harvard Graduate Council from HLS representative Annie Levin.
Brian
I went to last night’s HGC meeting, and here’s my little synopsis:
1. Head delegates signed up from each school. (I signed up . . . It’s really just a “communication hub” designation.)
2. The spring agenda was set. The following projects are in the works:
a) HGC vision statement
b) Web connecting/grad school event calendar project (a centralized location to find daily events at each school)
c) University-wide club collaboration event (a networking and leadership-building event for all the presidents of all the graduate clubs across the university, to help nurture opportunities for collaboration across schools)
d) Cross-registration mentoring program (a program to designate mentors at each school that can help grad students with cross-registration–helping grad students know what classes and professors to take and how to navigate each school)
e) indoor tennis courts (currently the indoor tennis courts are free for undergrads but up to $40/hr for grad students)
f) 5K grad student run on the Charles, to raise money for a charity
g) monthly social events (more speed dating, a Valentine’s Day event, St. Patrick’s Day event, end of the year event)
3. One last idea discussed at the meeting to help facilitate more social interaction between schools was to ask each graduate school to open up one event next semester to the whole graduate student community; it can be an academic event, a social event, a student-government organized event…the HGC could co-sponsor and help with advertising. Would the law school be willing to do that?