This section of the GSA website includes some items that are not current but may still be interesting or relevant to our graduate members.
The GSA Women's Officer wishes you all the best in preparing for your
assignments and end-of-term assessments, and invites you to join her and
other women graduate students for a relaxed gathering. Come along for some
tea/ coffee, cake and conversation!
Date: Thursday 18 June
Time: 10:30 to 11:30 am
Venue: Graduate Centre Café (behind GSA Reception)
RSVP to: women@gsa.unimelb.edu.au
Women in Publishing - International Women's Day Event
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Featuring Miriam Zolin, Monica Dux and Dr Michelle Smith
Friday 6 March
12:30 - 2:00pm
Gryphon Gallery
Graduate Centre
RSVP: gsa@gsa.unimelb.edu.au
Quota: 60 places
Not negligent, busy...
It's been ages since I last wrote to update you all - my apologies. As is often ironically the case, it's not due to lack of reasons to report, but rather having so many issues to cover that I haven't had time to sit down and write about them... but enough excuses.
Cooperative Housing Campaignbout 20 members of the Student Housing Action Cooperative continue to live at 278 Faraday St. We have been speaking with government and NGO bodies, as well as the Melbourne University Student Union Ltd, about possibilities for...
What do budgets, Burnley and the housing crisis have in common?
Okay,
the only thing they really have in common is the University of
Melbourne, but the first one has had serious implications for Burnley
students and all students seeking affordable accommodation over the
years, not to mention a number of other things. But let's first
consider this year's budget...
Are you working or studying at the University of Melbourne?
Do you have children who need childcare so that you can work or study?
Have you been able to access childcare provided by the University of Melbourne?
Are you satisfied with your childcare arrangements?
While the President's Away...
It's
been an eventful first half of the year, and I am dearly looking
forward to a month's break before returning to get back to business.
I'm off with my husband and three gorgeous children (ages 8, 7 & 4)
for a month of weddings, reunions and camping in California and Oregon,
from where I originally hail. I've left all your interests in the
capable hands of our Vice President (and former UMPA President) Tony
Williams and the rest of the hard-working staff and councillors at UMPA...
Notes from an Arts-weary President
We had a successful set of outcomes from taking the
UMPA Arts position paper to Uni Council, including the passing of the following motion...
Plagiarism - do you really know what it is?
It
seems to me that most postgrads are pretty sure they know that
plagiarism is copying someone else's work, whether just a sentence or a
whole essay, and that it is not okay. I suspect there are some out
there who aren't entirely clear that paraphrasing without in-text
citations is plagiarism. And I am certain that there will be some who
don't know that plagiarism is also, according to the University,
submitting all or part of your own work for more than one assessment
task..
The University's Knowledge Transfer Committee has established the Dreamlarge: Student Project Grant Scheme to support the development of Knowledge Transfer projects which connect student groups with external partners. Grants of up to $2,500 (a substantial number depending upon the quality of the applications) as well as 5 grants of up to $5,000 will be made available to enrolled students of the University. Enrolled postgraduate and undergraduate students may apply to the Scheme. Applications will close on 25 July 2008.
Academic Freedom
Last week it was all about Arts, Music and the VCA. This week is all about academic freedom.
Last week it was about UMPA and UMSU criticising the University’s
handling of the chronic underfunding of Arts and Humanities, and
worrying about our own funding from the Uni as we take a position on
behalf of those we represent. This week it is a senior lecturer
defending his right to criticise the government, yet being demoted and
disaffected for doing so. Don’t bite the hand that feeds you, they say.
I guess they don’t have a particularly complex view of just who owns that hand…