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Article IV
Membership
This article covers membership eligibility and types of membership available within the organization. Significant changes include: Clearly defining full membership and associate membership, as well as the rights given to each.
Proposed Changes
The proposed changes clearly articulate the practice that members are allowed to fully participate in all parts of GEO in addition to clarifying the definition of full and associate membership, and the rights of each type of membership.
Why are these changes are recommended?
The changes proposed in this amendment will clarify the definition of types of membership as well as institutionalize the current practice of allowing members to participate in all aspects of GEO by placing them specifically into the constitution.
Constitutional Language
Current Language
IV. Membership
- A. Full Membership: Every graduate student with an academic appointment at the University of Michigan shall be eligible for membership in the Organization, except those holding the rank of assistant professor or higher and administrators.
- B. Associate Membership: Graduate students not holding academic appointments may become associate members.
- C. Good Standing: A member in good standing is one who pays all dues approved by the Organization.
- D. Membership Powers: All powers of this Organization shall be vested in the membership. Except as otherwise provided herein, all decisions involving the Organization or activities shall be taken at membership meetings where each member in good standing shall have one vote.
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Proposed Revision
IV. Membership
- A. Membership Powers: All powers of the Organization shall be vested in the membership. Except as otherwise provided herein, all decisions involving the Organization shall be taken at Membership Meetings. All members of the Organization shall have the right to attend any meeting at which the business of the Organization is conducted, except where this right is prohibited by law or modified herein. All votes taken by this Organization shall adhere to the principle that each member in good standing shall receive one vote, except where such procedure is prohibited by law or modified herein.
- B. Membership Eligibility: All graduate students at the University of Michigan shall be eligible to for membership in the Organization.
- C. Good Standing: A member in good standing is one who pays all dues approved by the Organization.
- D. Types of Membership:
- (1) Full Members shall be those graduate students who are members of the Organization and who hold an appointment subject to the collective bargaining agreement between the Organization and the University of Michigan. For purposes of representation, full members may elect to vote in the department in which they are employed or in the department in which they are enrolled.
- (2) Associate Members shall be those graduate students who are members of the Organization, but who do not hold an appointment covered by the collective bargaining agreement.
- (3) Except where specified herein or mandated by law, the rights and privileges of membership shall accrue equally to both Full and Associate Members.
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