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The UAH GSA formed back in early 1993 and was composed of a few (less than 10) graduate students from different schools at the University who took a serious interest in the quality of education here at UAH and an unselfish concern about graduate student issues.

This is a brief listing of some of the achievements and activities that the GSA has accomplished since its inception.

  • Library privileges for graduate students to match those of staff - semester checkouts instead of 3 weeks
  • Publication of Student Instructor Evaluation (SIE) scores
  • TA Training Workshops
  • Passage of TA Voice Resolution (with SGA)
  • Establishment of a World Wide Web page and email distribution list
  • Becoming member of the National Association For Graduate Professional Students (NAGPS) and thus making available to UAH graduate students an alternate, more comprehensive health insurance plan
  • The GSA "Bookworms" participated in Intramural Volleyball at UAH (and took 4th place in the Fall of 1994)
  • Provided judges for the Science Olympiad for High School students and for the State Science and Engineering Fair
  • Worked with the School of Graduate Studies on keeping alive the extracurricular credit hour policy for TA's and GRA's
  • Establishing a graduate Legislator-at-large position on the SGA.
  • Forming a Graduate Advisory Committee (GAC) with the dean of the School of Graduate Studies
  • The GSA received club of the year award in March of 1996

Currently, we are pursuing the following :

  • Increasing the number of graduate students with e-mail accounts as a tool to keep graduate students informed of decisions that affect them.
  • Encourage the Deans to get offer letters out to TA's earlier and to include the actual TA assignment in the offer letter rather than making TA class assignments a week or even only one day in advance.
  • Volunteering to speak to high school students about graduate student research areas
  • Increasing the interest in getting graduate students more involved with UAH activities and clubs.