Senate Meeting of December 3rd, 2025

The third senate meeting for the Autumn 2025 quarter will take place on Wednesday, December 3rd from 5:30pm to 8:30pm in Husky Union Building room 332 and online on Zoom. Pizza and a selection of soft drinks will be provided.

Zoom: https://washington.zoom.us/j/93955233603

CART: https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=UWGPSS.Senate

Agenda

1. Call to Order (Sponsor: Ryan Wicklund, Time: 1 min.) [ACTION]
2. Approval of Agenda (Sponsor: Ryan Wicklund, Time: 1 min.) [ACTION]
3. Approval of Minutes (Sponsor: Ryan Wicklund, Time: 1 min.) [ACTION]
4. Land Acknowledgement (Sponsor: Pavandeep Josan, Time: 2 min.) [INFORMATION]
5. Announcements and Public Comments (Sponsor: Ryan Wicklund, Time: 7 min.) [INFORMATION]
6. Elections Committee Appointment (Sponsor: Pavandeep Josan. Time: 10 min.)
7. Legislative Agenda Amendment (Sponsor: Annika Peterson. Time: 10 min.)
8. Suspending the Bylaws for Budget Timeline (Sponsor: Riley Talamantes, Time: 5 min.) [ACTION]
9. Icebreaker (Sponsor: Tricia Jenkins, Time: 7 min.) [INFORMATION]
10. A Joint Resolution for a Graduate and Undergraduate Student Regent (Second/ Third Reading) (Sponsor: Ryan Wicklund, Erick Jacobsen, Time: 5 min.) [ACTION]
11. A Resolution Against the Dissolution of the Executive Master’s in Healthcare Administration Program (First/Second/Third Reading) (Sponsor: Laura Alford, Time: 10 min.) [INFROMATION]
12. Senator of the Month (Sponsor: Pavandeep Josan, Time: 5 min.) [INFORMATION]
13. Liaison of the Month (Sponsor: Ryan Wicklund, Time: 5 min.) [INFORMATION]
14. Adjournment (Sponsor: Ryan Wicklund, Time: 1 min.) [ACTION]

Meeting Recap

• Ayush Goyal shared an announcement about Green Lake Elementary School’s Holiday Tree Sale fundraiser (November 28th to December 20th). See the flier in meeting slides.
• Riley Talamantes shared an announcement about the GPSS Masquerade Ball happening on December 5th.
• Annika Peterson shared about Huskies on the Hill event happening on February 10th, 2026. Lunch and transportation to Olympia will be provided.
• Riley Talamantes shared about the department allocations opening on Friday, December 5th, 2025. The application is available on the GPSS website.
• Ryan Wicklund shared a special elections announcement: Noah Hough, the VP of Administration, is resigning. Any graduate student at UW can run for the vacancy, but the selection will be done by a vote of the senate. Special elections will be held on January 14th, 2026 at 5:30pm. 
• Kylie Jones was unanimously approved as the final at-large senator for the Elections Committee.
  
• A Joint Resolution for a Graduate and Undergraduate Student Regent was approved.
• A Resolution Against the Dissolution of the Executive Master’s in Healthcare Administration Program was approved.
• Sophia Chima was recognized as the GPSS Senator of the Month for October 2025.
• Bintang Wicaksana and Sheila Gray were recognized as the GPSS Liaison of the Month for the months of October 2025 and November 2025, respectively.

Previous Senate Meeting Recaps

• November 19th meeting was canceled.
• For October 22nd meeting recap, see the event page for Senate Meeting of October 22nd, 2025