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Council of Graduate Students (COGS)
COGS (405 Johnston Hall, 612-626-1612, www.cogs.umn.edu) is the official body representing graduate students at the University and is recognized by the Graduate School constitution.
Each fall the directors of graduate studies are asked to ensure that their degree programs are represented on COGS by a graduate student. Graduate students in each program are entitled to elect one representative and an alternate, with each program determining its own method of selection. All programs should send a representative to this organization.
COGS promotes the academic, social, and economic goals of graduate students by initiating policies beneficial to them, by working with other campus organizations and with graduate student associations at other universities, and by informing graduate students of proposed and enacted changes in policies that affect them at the Graduate School, University, local, state, and national levels.
COGS provides opportunities for graduate students to actively participate in University policy decisions--it elects graduate students to fill seats on the six Policy and Review Councils; on various Graduate School, University, and College of Liberal Arts committees; and on the University Senate.
The COGS office also provides explanations of University policies and procedures, sponsors programs on issues such as taxes, conducts graduate student opinion surveys, provides ombudsman services, and disseminates information through the Gradletter, and their web site ( www.cogs.umn.edu/.).
All graduate students are welcome to attend and participate in the COGS General Assembly meetings. Voting members include graduate students who are degree program representatives, Policy and Review Council members and alternates, and members of Graduate School and CLA committees and of the University Senate. Meetings are announced in the Daily, in the Gradletter and on the web site.
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