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Welcome to our New GEO Officers for 2009-10, who were elected by the members at our membership meeting in April.
Co-Presidents
Caroline Nappo (Library & Information Science)
Ingbert Floyd (Library & Information Science)
Grievance Officer
Michelle Owen (Law & ILIR) - returning
Communications Officer
Peter Campbell (Communication)
Treasurer
Stephanie Seawell (History)
At-Large Officers
Lee Ragsdale (Linguistics)
Mukta Tripathy (Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering)
Matt Anderson (Geography)
Thanks to all of our outgoing officers. It was a GREAT year!
Posted June 11, 2009
Our Bargaining Team met for the first time with the Administration's
team on Tuesday, April 21.
Ashley Howard (History) presented our proposal. Other members of our
team are: Erin Heath (English), Ingbert Floyd (GSLIS), Kerry Pimblott (History),
Damien Mathew (BioPhysics), Anna Kurhajec (History), Carolina Sternberg
(Geography), Dave Bates (History), Dave Beck (GEO staff), and Jon Nadler
(IFT Field Service Director).
Our next meeting with the Administration will be on Tuesday, May 5.
We're looking forward to seeing some kind of a response to our proposals.
Stay tuned for more bargaining news...
Posted April 24, 2009
The Health Care Working Group is collecting stories from students regarding difficulties accessing sonogram services or finding accurate information about sonograms from McKinley. We are also interested in any resulting (emotional, financial, time-related) costs that have been incurred. Please contact Bryana French: bryana.french@gmail.com, Aimee Rickman: arickman@illinois.edu, or Lori Serb: lserb@uigeo.org for more information or to set a meeting time to discuss your experience. Please direct all written statements of experiences with McKinley sonogram to lserb@uigeo.org by April 30.
Posted April 24, 2009
Check out 2 GEO members as they tell it like it is...
Rich Potter (Communication) recently gave an address to the Board of Trustees on the need for a living wage for TAs and GAs.
Rich's 5-minute presentation is now available at
Address to BoT
Rich clearly had an impact. Afterward, Trustee Dorris left the meeting to talk to Rich about the living wage issue.
Pass this on to your friends, students, and faculty!
Caroline Nappo (Library & Information Science) was recently interviewed by Chicago Public Radio for their "State of Your State" program. Check out what she had to say about transparency at the U of I.
Posted March 19, 2009
The GEO is currently circulating this Statement of Support to all members and organizations of the campus community. If your organization would like to support Graduate Employees on this campus, please consider issuing this or a similar statement.
“We, members of the campus community, value the critical role played by graduate employees at the University of Illinois. Accordingly, we are alarmed by the Provost’s proposed changes to the graduate tuition waiver policy and its potential implications for the accessibility of graduate education and the excellence of instruction and research. We, therefore, demand that the Administration halt any processes currently underway to transform the tuition waiver policy and insist that any future deliberations take place in a transparent and democratic fashion in which graduate employees are formally represented.”
GEO members: Download this Waiver Petition.
Circulate and return to the GEO office!
Posted February 20, 2009
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