UW Graduate and Professional Student Senate

We need 15 total participants to fill our team.  We'll be cleaning up SAM's Olympic Sculpture Park in downtown Seattle, from 9:30am-3pm on MLK Day (January 18th).  Just click here to sign up (you have to create a log-in) or email the GPSS Secretary to let me know that you'd like to participate and I can manually ad

Click here to read an article in the November 23rd edition of the UW Daily on the successful efforts of GPSS to include language covering student health insurance plans in the Senate health reform bill.  Congratulations to Jake and Sarah for all their hard work in getting this done so quickly!

As many of you know, sometime this year GPSS will have to move out of its current home in HUB 300 to make way for a complete overhaul of the building.  This is a project that has been years in the making and wouldn't have been possible without student support.  To stay up-to-date on all the latest news and happenings in the project, check out this new blog.

Please note that the application deadlines for GPSS Travel Grants have been changed.  The new dates (and application materials) can be found on our website, under "Services."  The new dates are as follows (by 5pm):

Since it is much easier to keep people updated with a page (instead of a group) on facebook, I've created a page for GPSS.  Please follow the link below to become a fan of our page and our updates will show up in your newsfeed and will also be linked to our Twitter account (uw_gpss).  This enables us to keep the facebook spam (messages sent to all of our group members) to a minimum, too.  We will keep the group for now, but might decide that it is best to phase it out in the future.  If you have any feedback or questions about this, plea

All students are welcome to come! Joanne Harrell, our newest Regent, shares her challenges and achievements during her successful career.
Participate in a Question & Answer Session

TVW has posted videos to their website of last week's Third Annual GPSS Summit on Higher Education:

Harvard Magazine has an interesting article (excerpts from an upcoming book by Louis Menand) about professionalization in academia: http://harvardmagazine.com/2009/11/professionalization-in-academy.