Issues for Graduate Students

DAC – Printer problems

            People printing things not related to the courses they teach

                        Printer/copier only to be used for TA work

            Don’t take paper from the copy room to use in CELSR

            Also cut down on last minute copying due to crowding at those times

            Suggested solutions

                        Allotment of copies

                        Clarification and control through ID, number, etc. 

                                    As other departments do

Printer etiquette in CELSR

            If we use too much toner, we will lose the printer

            Bring your own paper

            Don’t print materials for TA courses in CELSR

            Don’t print entire dissertations or other large printing runs

Watch out for people who are not LIN grad students in CELSR

            Don’t prop door open

            Put up sign on door – CELSR is not an open computer lab for anyone

General warning about leaving rooms unlocked

            Theft happens

            If you’re the last one, make sure the door locks behind you

Student crowds in offices

            Reserve another room ahead of time if possible

            Access to 607?

                        Need clarification on if we can use this room for groups of students

Website

            Make more use of it

            Make suggestions on how to make it more useful

            Submit information on reading groups, etc. to the webmaster

 

LSO Officers for next year

CoChairs: Kyle, Phil

Treasurer: Ai

Student Faculty Liaison: Marisa

Scribe: Chris

Webmaster: Matt K.

COGS: Olga

DAC: Minnie

DGC: ?

GEU: Vishwa

Colloquium: Kyle, Phil

 

Issues from Graduate Students

Student-faculty liaison being excluded from faculty meetings this past year

For colloquium – each faculty member responsible for one per year

Either their own work, one of their students, or an invited colleague from outside the department/university

Evaluations

            Funding based on them?  This needs clarification

            Evaluations are not informative or useful

            No clarifications on ratings or funding

                        Need criteria for ratings

            Changes in policies and how they effect us

            We have no feedback/responses to these

Supervisor evaluations of TA forms

            Many people have not seen their evaluation forms

Program requirements

            Language requirement, particularly non-Indo-European

                        How languages fit in individual students’ programs

                        More flexibility for the committees to determine

            Field methods course and/or typology course

            Scheduling and having to wait for courses

                        Staggering courses rather than having all Theory I courses in the spring

            Restructuring for better use

                        Morphology, historical

            Clarify what these courses need to be and what they fulfill

                        Compare to similar programs at other universities

            Mathematical methods course

            Experimental design – part of methods course?

Equipment

            Access to the eye tracker

            EEG – work with SLS?

Email and communication

            Have a time limit and it needs to be enforced

            Faculty need to respond to mails in a timely manner

Faculty advocating for student funding

            Also better communication regarding funding      

Hierarchy of funding

            Teaching assignments and people getting positions

Relying on word of mouth for crucial information

Travel funding

            Clarifications

            Fairness

            Distribution

All forms needed by grad students should be available on LSO website

            Travel funding, applications, etc.

Faculty availability

            Appointments

            Email

            Office hours getting filled too quickly

                        Students having a difficult time meeting with faculty

Faculty attendance at colloquium

International grad students and summer funding concern

For the Fall Term

Brown bag student meeting at the beginning of the term

            Helpful for incoming students