Speaker: Alexander Boler
email for appointment: COGSSpeaker@admin.fsu.edu
Office: A205H in Oglesby Union
Deputy Speaker for Finance: Catherine Williams 
email for appointment: COGSDepSpeaker@admin.fsu.edu
Office: A205H in Oglesby Union
Deputy Speaker for Judicial Affairs: John Kanter
email for appointment: jk12@med.fsu.edu
Deputy Speaker for Communications: Neleen Leslie
email for appointment: nsl10e@my.fsu.edu
The Congress of Graduate Students (COGS) is the official representative body of all post-baccalaureate special, masters, specialist, professional, and doctoral students at Florida State.
In accordance to the Student Government Constitution, COGS is a funding body of the Student Government Association and has been granted its own set of administrative rules and procedures. In other words, the COGS assembly is solely responsible for allocating all of the A&S fees it receives from graduate students each year.
COGS is led by an elected Speaker who is supported by an Executive Board comprised of an elected Financial Officer, Judicial Officer, and Information Officer. The Speaker of the House is the official representative for all graduate students to the university and community, and coordinates all administrative work necessary for the efficient operation of COGS. Along with the Speaker, the Financial Officer authorizes the expenditure of all A&S fee allocations. The Financial Officer is second in line to the Speaker and assumes all of the Speakers responsibilities in the Speaker’s absence.
During the fall semester of each year, graduate students vote for COGS representatives from all sixteen colleges and schools. Seats in the COGS assembly are allocated based on the amount of enrolled students in each college or school. The term for a COGS representative is one year and vacant seats can be filled through the petition process.
Currently, the largest account that COGS administers is Support Grant Lines. These grants help hundreds of graduate students each year travel to academic conferences, present their research, and conduct their research domestically and abroad. Aside from grants, COGS administers funds to hundreds of recognized graduate student organizations (RSOs). Graduate RSOs provide essential activities and services to students of similar interests, goals, and academic backgrounds.
Congress of Graduate Students general assembly meetings are held every first and third Monday of each month at 6:30pm in Room 250 of the Askew Student Life Center.
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