April 2024 Meeting Minutes

  Attached are the BISC Caucus meeting minutes from the meeting held on April 18^th, 2024. Detailed minutes of meeting can be found here. 

Highlights

- Discussion on what to do with Les Ecol (Caucus potentially to take over) 

- GPR issues

- Survey for courses to be discussed with Mike

- MSc. NSERC Awardees should have received answers by now, PhD still pending

- CGSD and CGSM are going up in $$

- GSS Health plan fees structure in discussion 

- Nick Dulvy is the new faculty person in charge of EDI 

- Next Caucus event is Fall 2024 Welcome party (Sept); Debating a potential end of sem casual event (we have the money - why not?) 

March 2024 Meeting Minutes

  Attached are the BISC Caucus meeting minutes from the meeting held on March 22^nd, 2024. Detailed minutes of meeting can be found here. 

February 2024 Minutes

 Attached are the BISC Caucus meeting minutes from the meeting held on February 16^th, 2024. Detailed minutes of meeting can be found here. 

Highlights

Faculty of Science 1st Annual Career Fair organization/participation

    • The Physics grad caucus is looking to set up a Faculty of Science career fair for graduate students and post-docs in all science departments. Each faculty propose what companies they want to come (2-4 companies from each department)
    • Send list of companies to invite to the event (any of interest to BISC and other departments)
        • DFO
        • BC Genome
        • Send more suggestions of companies to invite to Miranda Dennis at miranda_dennis@sfu.ca in the next couple of days, please! (We don’t need to know anyone from the company, just a list of ideas.)

Please consider joining myself and other grads in meeting the candidates for the Thelma Finlayson Chair in Biological Control. 

    • March 6, 8, 20th there will be pizza lunches paid for by the department by Biology Candidate Meetups

Minimum funding policy

    • PhD scholarship is within our minimum funding, not on top

    • There was a misunderstanding at the entire University level

    • Policy details are still being organized

    • More details to come with what has been proposed

APR forms to GPR transition

    • Do not panic about your GPR, there are technical difficulties at the moment

    • Hopefully will be sorted out by May

January 2024 Meeting Minutes

 

Attached are the BISC Caucus meeting minutes from the meeting held on January 15^th, 2024. Detailed minutes of meeting can be found here. 

 

Highlights from the meeting:

• Inter-Disciplinary Ecology and Aquatic Systems (IDEAs) symposium is coming up on February 3^rd at SFU Burnaby. Everyone is welcome to attend, register for the FREE symposium here.
• Grad hosted speaker has been postponed to February 12^th with lunch at Biercraft afterwards.
• More information in minutes on the TSSU campaign regarding wages lost during picketing in the summer.
• Motion was carried to increase funding for Masters and PhD students.