The Graduate Associate Compensation & Benefits Committee (GCBC) is chaired by a graduate student and assesses the support of graduate associates at the university. Each year, GCBC comes out with recommendations concerning the funding of graduate and professional students.
Leadership
- Brian RochaCGS Senator, 2024-2025
Membership
| Member | Source | Term Ends |
|---|---|---|
| Alan Nair | CGS | 2025 |
| Brian Rocha | CGS | 2025 |
| Deb Pathak | CGS | 2025 |
| Sarah Ganbat | CGS | 2025 |
| Syed Murtaza Arshad | CGS | 2025 |
| CGS | 2025 | |
| Keith Gooch | Faculty Council | 2026 |
| Danielle Fosler-Lussier | Grad Council Faculty | 2026 |
| Andrew Blatter | Dean of Graduate School / Designee | |
| Katie Hall | VP, Office of Human Resources / Designee | |
| Natalia Higuita-Castro | VP Office of Research / Designee |
Rule 3335-5-48.18 Graduate Associate Compensation and Benefits Committee
(A) Membership
The graduate associate compensation and benefits committee shall consist of eleven voting members.
- Six funded graduate students, one of whom preferably will be a member of the graduate council and one of whom must be a member of the university senate. Each shall have a term of service of one year with reappointment to consecutive terms encouraged.
- There shall be at least one current or former graduate teaching associate.
- There shall be at least one current or former graduate research associate.
- There shall be at least one current or former graduate administrative associate.
- There shall be at least one current or former fellowship recipient.
- Two faculty.
- One faculty member from, and selected by, the graduate council.
- One faculty member, who is also a senator, selected by the executive committee of faculty council.
- Three administrators.
- The dean of the graduate school, or designee.
- The vice president for human resources, or designee.
- The vice president for research, or designee.
- One department, school, center or college-level staff member with extensive fiscal and budgetary experience and expertise, selected by the council of deans in consultation with the senior fiscal officers, non-voting.
- Additional non-voting members and consultants from the university, serving at the discretion of the voting members of the committee.
(B) Duties and Responsibilities
- Study the adequacy and other attributes of the university's policies and provisions including stipends, outside professional services, and supplemental compensation.
- Conduct research and provide advice on economic support of graduate associates, professional development, quality and design of benefit programs, and appointment terms.
- Make recommendations to the university senate, the graduate council, the graduate school, and the office of academic affairs as appropriate.
(C) Organization
- The committee shall annually elect a chair from its regular student membership.
- As a standing committee of the senate, this committee is also governed by the provisions of rules 3335-5-46 and 3335-5-48 of the Administrative Code.
(Board approval dates: 5/6/2005, 4/6/2007, 2/10/2012)