[BoulderCouncilHotline] Re: Housing Advisory Board suggestions from the CRC

[Morzel, Lisa]

Dear Frances,

Thank you for forwarding this response. I have copied Council on this and ask they read your response.

Thanks for our meeting yesterday.

Best wishes

Lisa

Lisa Morzel
Member, Boulder City Council
303-815-6723 c
303-938-8520 h


On Jan 30, 2019, at 3:43 PM, Frances Draper <Frances.Draper at colorado.edu<mailto:Frances.Draper at colorado.edu>> wrote:

Dear Lisa:

Thank you for sending this over and for meeting yesterday.  Jane, I am copying you as well to provide some information related to our graduate students.

As city council members consider this request, they should be aware that this is a separate group of students from our United Government of Graduate Students (UGGS) which can be found herehttps://www.colorado.edu/uggs/about-uggs<https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/Xrg2CBB9GEf745xXcv-WNb?domain=colorado.edu>

During the past three years, former Graduate School Dean Ann Schmiesing and the leadership of UGGS have worked closely together to address and make significant improvements to the graduate student experience.

The Graduate School has worked to enhance the student experience including:
·        To address the financial challenges, we’ve significantly increased graduate student stipends, improved the pay schedule, and have eliminated the graduate student athletic fee and the course and program fees. A fourth consecutive year of increases to stipends is pending approval before the Regents for FY20.  Remuneration varies by departments.  So, for example, if the increase is approved, this will bring the total graduate student compensation package for engineering graduate students (one of our largest graduate student populations on appointment), including tuition remission and contribution to health plan, for 20 hours/week, for nine months, to $41,333.  I should note that we are competitive with our AAU public university peers nationally.
·        We also provided RTD transit passes to graduate students who hold summer appointments.
·        Recently, the Graduate School added a peer mentoring program and many professional development opportunities, which include graduate student writing seminars and workshops, the annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, GradTalks and a professional development certification.
·        The Graduate School established a task force in October 2018 with the United Government of Graduate Students (UGGS) and the Office of Budget and Fiscal Planning to examine graduate student stipends, benefits, and fees, and look more deeply into how these compare with our AAU public peers. The task force is also examining the feasibility of various options for enhanced benefits. Final recommendations by the task force will be made later in the 2019 spring semester.
Please let me know if you have any questions and share with the other council members.  Of course, always feel free to contact me regarding issues related to the university that the community is bringing to your attention.  Happy to provide whatever information I can.

Thank you,
Frances ☺


Frances Draper
Vice Chancellor for Strategic Relations and Communications
University of Colorado Boulder
Boulder, Colorado 80309
O 303 492 4504
C 303 775 3192

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From: "Morzel, Lisa" <MorzelL at bouldercolorado.gov<mailto:MorzelL at bouldercolorado.gov>>
Date: Tuesday, January 29, 2019 at 12:19 PM
To: Frances Draper <Frances.Draper at colorado.edu<mailto:Frances.Draper at colorado.edu>>
Subject: Fwd: Housing Advisory Board suggestions from the CRC

Hi Frances

Please see email below. This is what Cindy was raising.
Lisa

Lisa Morzel
Member, Boulder City Council
303-815-6723 c
303-938-8520 h


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From: "Weaver,  Sam" <WeaverS at bouldercolorado.gov<mailto:WeaverS at bouldercolorado.gov>>
Date: January 28, 2019 at 11:32:19 AM MST
To: Council <council at bouldercolorado.gov<mailto:council at bouldercolorado.gov>>
Subject: FW: Housing Advisory Board suggestions from the CRC
A reminder of this request to Council…

Sam Weaver
Mayor Pro Tem
Boulder City Council
weavers at bouldercolorado.gov<mailto:weavers at bouldercolorado.gov>
Phone: 303-416-6130

From: Carly Rae Anderson <Carly.Anderson at colorado.edu<mailto:Carly.Anderson at colorado.edu>>
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2019 11:03 AM
To: Housing Advisory Board <HousingAdvisoryBoard at bouldercolorado.gov<mailto:HousingAdvisoryBoard at bouldercolorado.gov>>; Jones, Suzanne <JonesS at bouldercolorado.gov<mailto:JonesS at bouldercolorado.gov>>; Brockett, Aaron <BrockettA at bouldercolorado.gov<mailto:BrockettA at bouldercolorado.gov>>; Yates, Bob <YatesB at bouldercolorado.gov<mailto:YatesB at bouldercolorado.gov>>; Carlisle, Cynthia <CarlisleC at bouldercolorado.gov<mailto:CarlisleC at bouldercolorado.gov>>; Grano, Jill <GranoJ at bouldercolorado.gov<mailto:GranoJ at bouldercolorado.gov>>; Morzel, Lisa <MorzelL at bouldercolorado.gov<mailto:MorzelL at bouldercolorado.gov>>; Young, Mary <YoungM at bouldercolorado.gov<mailto:YoungM at bouldercolorado.gov>>; Nagle, Mirabai <NagleM at bouldercolorado.gov<mailto:NagleM at bouldercolorado.gov>>; Weaver, Sam <WeaverS at bouldercolorado.gov<mailto:WeaverS at bouldercolorado.gov>>
Subject: Re: Housing Advisory Board suggestions from the CRC

Hello Council members and Housing Advisory Board members,

I'm sending a quick note to encourage you all to sign the Committee on Rights and Compensation's (CRC) fee waiver petition. The CRC is the graduate student union at CU, and one of our central campaigns for the year is focused on securing a fee waiver for graduate students.

Paying large student fees is a condition of our employment–in other words, we pay in order to work. The fees average about $2,000 a year, and when the average Teaching Assistant makes only ~$17,800 a year in take-home pay, you can see how problems arise. Graduate student workers regularly have no savings, no emergency funding, are severely housing cost-burdened, and don't have the option of simply working more since we already work at least full-time between our employment and research duties.

The link to sign is here: https://bouldercrc.org/fee-waiver-petition<https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/df1WCwp76giG135EsqHNk3?domain=bouldercrc.org>

Feel free to email me with any questions. We would really appreciate your support!
Carly

Carly Anderson Stewart
PhD. Candidate, Tripp Lab
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department
University of Colorado at Boulder

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On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 6:11 PM Carly Rae Anderson <Carly.Anderson at colorado.edu<mailto:Carly.Anderson at colorado.edu>> wrote:
Hello HAB members and City Council members,

My name is Carly Anderson Stewart, I spoke to the council last night about the graduate student worker housing crisis currently happening. I'm a board member of the grad student labor union, the Committee on Rights and Compensation, and we'd like to submit a list of suggestions to the HAB including short and long term solutions to the housing crisis.

Please feel free to contact me with questions. I'd be happy to meet or speak on the behalf of my group.

Thanks very much,
Carly


Carly Anderson Stewart
PhD. Student, Tripp Lab
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department
University of Colorado at Boulder

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