How does GESO differ from the GSA?
Administration Responds: The GSA, or Graduate Student Assembly, is the official representative body of students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Chartered in the spring of 1997 and ratified by a vote of the graduate students that fall, the GSA is made up of elected representatives from the Graduate School’s departments who serve as a communicate link between graduate students, the faculty, and the administration. The GSA’s formal authority includes appointing graduate students to the various standing and ad hoc committees of the Graduate School and meeting regularly with the Dean of the Graduate School and other University administrators on proposed changes on Graduate School policy and other issues of student concern. In contrast, GESO has no official representative function in the Graduate School.
