GAs, Win $500 – in FIFTEEN MINUTES
Submit an entry to the campus Financial Smarts Contest now!
If you already take steps to manage your finances, you’re
almost done.
Just make a post about a tool or process that you use to help you manage your finances
on any form of social media, including myUMBC, and then send a screenshot of the post to financialsmartsawards@gmail.com.
If you post a video, then send the video file.
That’s it! Your entry will then be in the running for a $500
first-place prize, or a $250 second-place prize.
Prizes are deposited into your Red Card, which you can use
for tuition and fees, or other stuff like food, printing, or merchandise from
the bookstore.
Entries are due by March 1st, 2018.
To learn more about financial literacy, visit financialsmarts.umbc.edu. If you have any questions, please contact
Isabel Garrido at garrido@umbc.edu.
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Welcome Back, Graduate Assistants!
We at the Graduate Assistant Advisory Committee (GAAC) would
like to give all graduate assistants (returning and new) a warm welcome to
UMBC! For those that do not know, the GAAC is the body comprised solely of UMBC
graduate assistants that meets with Graduate School Administration to relay any
employment concerns. We also work with administrators to amend and enact
policies that benefit graduate assistants at UMBC.
Last year, our main focus was keeping an affordable Graduate
Assistant health insurance plan that would adequately meet the needs of
graduate assistants. Through your participation in online surveys and
willingness to share your stories, we were able to convince the graduate school
to keep our current plan at no cost to us. (The departmental chairs and graduate
program directors played a crucial role in finding the money to pay for the
continued coverage, so please thank them!) We are willing to work with a broad
range of groups, but we need your input in order to determine where the need
lies.
If you have a concern that you would like to bring to our
attention, you may do so by sending an email to GAAC@umbc.edu. All
correspondence through this email remains confidential and is only viewed by
GAAC members, with all identifying information removed before bringing it to
other parties should the need arise.
Also, we're always looking for new members, so feel free to
send an email to GAAC@umbc.edu if you're interested in joining the GAAC.
Good luck this semester! Below are some helpful links for
Graduate Assistants. Please let us know if there is anything else we can do to
help.
Sincerely,
The Graduate Assistant Advisory Committee
Helpful Link 1: The Graduate Assistant Handbook. This
contains all the policies that govern your assistantship, including vacation
time, sick leave, tuition remission, and ways to address workplace complaints.
http://gradschool.umbc.edu/funding/assistantships/handbook/
Helpful Link 2: Link to GA Forms. These are the forms that
we need to fill out periodically, such as forms for tuition remission, health
insurance, and completion of duties (equivalent of the timesheet).
http://gradschool.umbc.edu/funding/assistantships/forms/
Helpful Link 3: The GAAC myUMBC Group. This is where we post
things of importance, including our current progress on different issues.
https://my.umbc.edu/groups/gaac
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Success! Your participation in surveys saved you money!
Thanks to your feedback, GAs keep insurance at no extra cost
The Graduate Assistant Advisory (GAAC) council would like to extend a BIG THANK YOU to all the Graduate Assistants (GAs) that participated in the surveys or provided feedback over the past year on cost of living and health insurance coverage. The swift information you provided in those surveys was very persuasive to the university administrators that made the decision to completely cover the $714.00 (19.2%) increase in health insurance premiums this year.
As you may recall, the university administrators were faced with the hard decision to either purchase a cheaper health care plan that would raise the out of pocket costs if a GA visits a doctor, or to find the money to cover the increase to keep our insurance the same. One of the proposed solution was to ask GAs to pay a portion of the $714. But because of your feedback and participation, they recognized the financial and health impacts of both changing the health care policy or asking GAs to pay a portion of the increase. And so the outcome is that we will have the same insurance and the university will not ask GAs to pay for the cost increase this year.
Therefore, please continue to STAY INVOLVED with the GAAC as this issue will come up again in January. Additionally, if you have any other concerns related to your working conditions, please reach out to us at any time.
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