[GSA Council] ADD COMMENTS TO THE DRAFT MOU AIESEC-GSA

Mon Aug 22 19:58:00 PDT 2016

Thanks Keroles.

On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 10:16 PM, Keroles Riad <k_riad at encs.concordia.ca>
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> First, I would like this statement "A minimum of 1 information session and
> 1 workshop organized by AIESEC will be held quarterly at GSA house. "
> Changed to "A minimum of 1 information session and 1 workshop
> co-organized by AIESEC and the GSA will be held every semester (including
> summer semester) at a wheel-chair accessible venue booked by the GSA".
>
> Second: I would like to let everyone know that there are no charges for
> booking space at Concordia for the GSA. Here is the link to booking fees
> from hospitality: https://www.concordia.ca/content/dam/
> concordia/services/event-planning/docs/myevents-user-rates.pdf
>
> As a student association, we fall under the internal category (check
> definitions in the first page). The internal category has no charges for
> space booking according to the second page.
>
> I think we should go ahead and approve the MOU.
>
> Thanks
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> *From:* Rafi Mohammad Azad <mobilization.gsa at gmail.com>
> *To:* Bhavreet Gill <bhavreet.gill at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* GSA all contacts <gsaconcordia at lists.resist.ca>
> *Sent:* Sunday, August 21, 2016 10:05 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [GSA Council] ADD COMMENTS TO THE DRAFT MOU AIESEC-GSA
>
> Hello Bhavreet
>
> Thanks a lot for your input.
>
> First of all we prefer sharing co-organized events because both GSA and
> AIESEC will be having lots of different types of events all through the
> term so it will be hard to keep track and always professionally share each
> others event in their respective platforms. If we generalize it and any of
> the two association miss out on sharing any particular event by the other
> association then that will be a breach of the contract. It seems to me not
> that necessary for GSA to showcase their events in AIESEC's platform since
> we have a better reach then them.
>
> What I feel is GSA will be more beneficial then AIESEC for the following
> key reasons :
>
> 1.For this collaboration we get  to organize workshops almost for free. if
> we provide them just the venue within the campus then that will be the only
> cost for us where as AIESEC will be in charge of everything for the
> workshops and information sessions which will be solely dedicated towards
> Graduate students only (this will be added in the MOU).
>
> 2. These will be free workshops for graduate students (as discussed with
> AIESEC previously and will be mentioned in the final version of the MOU)
>
> 3. Our Graduate students will now get to know about the internship
> opportunities on a regular basis which previously they rarely used to know
> about.
>
> 4. AIESEC being under CSU is not actually concerning us, because of that
> actually very less amount of Graduate students knew about it and could not
> participate in their events, which are necessary for the Graduates too, so
> this collaboration will remove that barrier and will open up opportunity
> for more activities for our Graduate students within the campus.
>
> So all in all I see that GSA is getting most of it from this
> collaboration, with rarely any expenses being incurred by us.
>
> If you have any more ideas or point which we can add feel free to add
> them. I will really appreciate that. Cheers
>
>
> *Regards*
>
> Rafi Mohammad Azad
> *Vice President Mobilization*
>
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> On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 9:28 PM, Bhavreet Gill <bhavreet.gill at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hello Rafi,
>
> I have a few doubts with this collaboration
> 1. Why only the "co-organised" events will be shared by AISEC and GSA? As
> it is mentioned in the MoU
> 2. I feel AISEC is more at benefit than GSA with this MoU as i donot see
> any platform for GSA to reachout to students or any other thing of that
> sort.
> 3. AISEC is a registered club under CSU, they are getting benefits from
> them as well
>
> I think we should better work on the agreement again so as to bring GSA a
> benefit from this collaboration or MoU.
>
> Regards
>
> On Sunday, 21 August 2016, Rafi Mohammad Azad <mobilization.gsa at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hello All
>
> Hope you all had a great weekend.
>
> As almost all of you know about the MOU between AIESEC and GSA.
>
> I would request you all to add your valuable ideas as comments to the
> previous draft version of the MOU by *24th September 2016*. I won't be
> able to delay it any further since from all your input I will have to make
> the final draft version to be sent to AIESEC Concordia and also to be
> presented to the council in the next council meeting.
>
> You can add your ideas as comments in this Dropbox file by the above
> mentioned date.
>
> Here is the Link to MOU AIESEC-GSA
> <https://www.dropbox.com/s/52ca3e7xglfs2i0/Memo%20of%20Understanding%20%28AIESEC-GSA%29.docx?dl=0>
> .
> **Thanks in advance.**
>
>
>
> *Regards*
>
> Rafi Mohammad Azad
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>
> *Graduate Students Association*
>
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