Graduate and Professional Student Organization - Bloomington
The IUB Graduate and Professional Student Organization (GPSO) serves more than 8,000 graduate and professional students at IU Bloomington by providing academic support, community, advocacy, and graduate resources.
Academic Support: Through various programs and services, the GPSO strives to provide opportunities for graduate and professional students to manage their professional lives effectively and efficiently. Some of these services are: Travel Grants; Grad Conference Support; and GPSO Awards for academic and mentoring achievements.
Community Building: The GPSO organizes and sponsors several academic, social, and professional events. It works to foster a closer community between IUÕs graduate and professional students, and also strives to create and maintain productive communication channels with other major constituents of the university.
Advocacy: The GPSO promotes the interests of the graduate student community through the Bloomington Faculty Council and on several campus committees. The GPSO also organizes and funds several initiatives to improve the campus and Bloomington community.
Resources for Living and Learning at IU: Recognizing the need for sharing information and resources in the graduate student community, the GPSO builds resources that assists graduate and professional students with living and working at IU. Examples of such resources are the GPSO Housing Bulletin Board, designed for graduate students to advertise and find housing; the GradPad, a graduate lounge available for reservation and has wireless internet, soft couches, and bright windows to make studying a breeze; and alerts to other campus educational and social opportunities.
Graduate Student Organization - IUPUI
The IUPUI GSO (Graduate Student Organization) is the graduate student government on the IUPUI campus. In 2008-09, the GSO focused on the following issues:
- The GSO held two events focused on socialization of graduate and professional students to IUPUI, their school, and the Indianapolis community.
- The focus of the Graduate Student Organization (GSO) this year has been to increase representation within GSO and on campus-wide committees.
- The GSO officers met regularly with the Vice-Chancellor of Student Life to discuss concerns, ideas and issues pertaining to the needs of graduate and professional students on campus.
- During the fall semester, the GSO spent much of their time on food issues and funding issues that were impacting student organizations.
- The GSO continues to provide funds to graduate and professional students to attend/present at national/international conferences, to defray the cost of consumable research supplies associated with their research, and outside training resulting in certification.
- This year over 180 students applied for competitive peer reviewed educational enhancement grants. The GSO awarded 70 students with educational enhancement grants totaling over $35,000.
- Finally, the GSO provided over $10,000 in funding to graduate and professional student organizations for the first time this year.
