Bowling Green State University, Graduate Student Senate records
Collection Overview
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of governance documents such as meeting minutes of the senate and its various committees, as well as constitutions, resolutions, amendments, and bills; reports and publications; promotional materials including newsletters and fliers; award files; and correspondence. A small subset of minutes, governance documents, and correspondence from 2011-2015 is available only as digital PDF files currently stored on an external hard drive in the University Archives.
The collection is organized in the order it was received, with at least one addition made to the original collection.
Dates
- Creation: 1969-2015
Extent
13.97 Cubic Feet (7 legal-sized archive boxes; 29 letter-sized archive boxes)
500 (est.) Megabytes (10 PDF documents)
Creator
- Bowling Green State University. Graduate Student Senate (Organization)
Biographical / Historical
Founded in 1969, the Graduate Student Senate (GSS) is a governing organization serving the graduate student body at Bowling Green State University. Through legislative efforts, active representation on University committees, and ongoing communication with administration, faculty, staff, and students, the senate strives to enhance graduate students’ academic and social experiences during their time at BGSU. It serves as the chief advocate for graduate student needs and issues throughout the university.
According to the original constitution, the GSS shall represent the graduate student in university affairs, serve as a forum for free discussion of problems facing the graduate student, provide a means of regular and easy interchange of information, establish working relationships with all graduate students, and conduct itself in a manner consistent with the spirit of the procedures and regulations of BGSU.
Conditions Governing Access
No known access restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Researchers using this collection assume full responsibility for conforming to the laws of libel, privacy, and copyright, and are responsible for securing permissions necessary for publication or reproduction.
Language of Materials
English
Subject
- Bowling Green State University. Graduate Student Senate (Organization)
- Bowling Green State University. Graduate Student Senate -- Archives (Organization)
- Bowling Green State University -- Graduate students -- Sources (Organization)
- Title
- Guide to the Bowling Green State University, Graduate Student Senate records
- Author
- Cindy Radford, Cooper Clarke, Nick Pavlik
- Date
- circa 2019, May 2019, June 2025
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin