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Graduate Student Senate offers Travel Funding.
Click here to find internal fellowship opportunities offered by the Graduate College.
With help from GSS, the Main Library has created a dedicated study room for Graduate Students. The Graduate Study Room (3132) is on the north end of the third floor corridor. Any current graduate student with a valid UIowa ID card can access the room.
The Campaign to Organize Graduate Students (COGS): UE Local 896/COGS, the Campaign to Organize Graduate Students is the graduate student union at the University of Iowa. COGS represents graduate students on issues related to employment. They work to defend the right of all graduate employees to fair working conditions, including but not limited to a living wage, comprehensive health care, child care, an effective grievance procedure, tuition waivers, and freedom from discrimination and harassment.
Graduate and Professional Student Government (GPSG): GPSG is the Graduate and Professional Student Government at the University of Iowa. GPSG represents UI's nearly 10,000 graduate and professional students and advocate on their behalf to university administrators, the Board of Regents, and state and federal legislators. Their mission is improve the experience of graduate and professional students at the University of Iowa. GPSG is a representative democracy, with delegates elected from all graduate and professional students at the University of Iowa. GPSG acts like an umbrella organization to GSS. GSS sends five delegates to GPSG.
Graduate Student Employment Committee (GSEC): GSEC was formed in 2017 to provide recommendations to institutional leadership in matters related to graduate student employment benefits. The committee is comprised of nine graduate student seats confirmed by the Graduate and Professional Student Government (GPSG) and Graduate Student Senate (GSS) bodies, two faculty members appointed by Faculty Senate, and one administrator.This committee represents graduate students' interests in matters pertaining to employment benefits. This link includes information about their upcoming meetings, past minutes, contact information for the committee members, the GSEC bylaws, and other helpful resources.