2009-2010 Graduate Student Handbook
Important resources
Graduate School Student Services and Progress Office
www.grad.umn.edu/Current_Students/
316 Johnston Hall, Minneapolis, 625-3490
GSSP office is the principal contact point for all students after
their Graduate School admission and initial registration. The staff
advises students, staff, and faculty concerning Graduate School and
University policies and procedures, and answers questions and
concerns about academic issues.
Graduate Student
Orientation
www.ofyp.umn.edu/gradstudents/or/
624-1979
The University offers orientation sessions specifically for graduate
students; try to attend some of these useful workshops and pick up
the handouts regarding other University resources. Sessions are
scheduled the week before classes start each semester.
Graduate Assistant
Employment, Office of Human Resources
www.umn.edu/ohr/gae
Donhowe Building, 2nd Floor, Minneapolis, 624-7070
The Graduate Assistant Employment office checks eligibility for and
audits graduate assistant appointments, administers the graduate
assistant tuition benefit program, resident tuition rate privilege,
extended resident tuition rate privilege for students and their
family members, and explains graduate assistant policies and
procedures.
Graduate Assistant Insurance Office
www.bhs.umn.edu/insurance/graduate
Boynton Health Service, 624-0627 or e-mail:
gradins@bhs.umn.edu
If you have questions about the graduate assistance insurance plan,
contact GAIO.
Center for
Teaching and Learning
www.umn.edu/ohr/teachlearn
120 Folwell Hall, 625-3041
This center works with departments, faculty, and graduate teaching
assistants on teaching and learning concerns. They offer teaching
enrichment workshops, short courses, and discussions, provide
confidential consultations on general classroom concerns or specific
teaching techniques, and provide testing services and courses for
non-native English-speaking prospective teaching assistants.
Council of Graduate
Students
www.cogs.umn.edu
405 Johnston Hall, 626-1612; e-mail:
cogs@tc.umn.edu
COGS represents graduate students to the Graduate School and to the
University community. They work on issues that affect graduate
students, such as Graduate Student Health Insurance Plan, TA
development programs, registration and financial aid policies.
Graduate and Professional
Student Assembly
www.gapsa.umn.edu
Suite 234 Coffman Union, 625-2982, e-mail:
gaps@umn.edu
GAPSA is a nonprofit confederation of ten independent college
councils representing all 13,000+ graduate and professional students
on the Twin Cities campus to the Board of Regents, to the President,
to the officers of the executive branch of governance at the
University of Minnesota, and the University at large. GAPSA serves
in several capacities by acting as a resource for member councils,
as the primary contact point for administrative units, as a graduate
and professional student policy-making and policy-influencing body,
and as the growing centerpoint of intercollegiate and
intracollegiate interaction between students.
International Student and
Scholar Services
www.isss.umn.edu
190 Humphrey (West Bank), 626-7100, e-mail:
isss@tc.umn.edu
ISSS provides counseling and assistance to international students.
One of their main functions is to help international students
maintain their non-immigrant, student status.
University Counseling &
Consulting Services
www.ucs.umn.edu
109 Eddy, or 199 Coffey, 624-3323
UCCS provides individual and group counseling on academic and
personal issues, organizes support groups (e.g., dissertation,
women’s, men’s, exploring sexual orientation, relationship issues),
and offers quarterly seminars and workshops.
Students should also refer to the following
publications and Web sites:
Graduate Student Handbook
www.grad.umn.edu/Current_Students/handbook
Staying on Course: Mutual Roles and Responsibilities in the Graduate
School Experience [.pdf]
www.cogs.umn.edu/pdfs/StayingonCourse2005.pdf
Graduate Student Survival Guide [.pdf]
www.cogs.umn.edu/pdfs/SurvivalGuide2005.pdf
The
University of Minnesota Graduate School Catalog
www.catalogs.umn.edu/grad
Graduate School Career
Services
www.grad.umn.edu/career
Professional Ethics and Responsible Research Conduct
www.grad.umn.edu/ethics/ethics_brochure.html
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