October 14-16, 2005

YaleUniversity

New Haven, Connecticut

Email address: ivygradsummit2005@gmail.com

Host Committee Organizations:
Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Jon Butler, Dean
Graduate Student Assembly
Graduate and Professional Student Senate
McDougal Graduate Student Center

The Ivy Summit 2005 at Yale University was a remarkable success! Thanks to all those who participated and worked hard to showcase Yale University as a great graduate and professional student environment.

• 1 Graduate (doctoral program) student government leader 
• 1 Professional or Graduate and Professional student government leader, if applicable
• 1 Student Life/Student Activities/Residential Life leader (i.e., Center Fellow, Res. Life
  coordinator, Activities Coordinator, etc)
• 1 Student Initiative Programming leader (i.e. conference travel fund, summer academic funding award, diversity, other initiatives, etc.
• 1 Administrative Policy student leader, working on campus wide issues

1-2 Graduate Student Life or Student Affairs Administrators Asst/Assoc Deans, Directors of Student Life or Activities or Graduate Centers, etc; .

Delegate Registration: Each Delegate should register for the Summit online by October 3rd at this site: https://fs3.formsite.com/yalegraduateschool/form575452346/secure_index.html

2. IGS Draft Program & Schedule - The Host Committee is working on the program, planning plenary sessions and small group activities, as well as social events and meals. The full schedule will be available in a few weeks. Delegates should plan to arrive in New Haven by 3 pm Friday, with the first session starting at 4:30pm. A thumbnail outline of the Summit is below:

Final Program will be posted here in October.

Most Saturday daytime events will be held on the Yale campus, in the McDougal Graduate Student Center, with evening hospitality at the Graduate-Professional Student Center at Yale, both of which are only a few blocks walk from the Omni Hotel.

3. Hotel & Travel- Each Ivy delegation is responsible for its own travel and lodging costs.

Hotel- The Yale Host committee has secured a discount room block for the affordable rate of $119 night Single/Double, parking included at the Four Star Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale. The Omni is located at 155 Temple Street, in downtown New Haven, Connecticut, convenient to the Yale campus. We strongly encourage all IGS delegates to stay at the Omni and use our room block rate. To reserve IGS guest rooms, please contact the hotel directly at: (203) 772-6664, Fax: (203) 974-6777, and provide your own credit card information. Reservations must be made by SEPTEMBER 14 to guarantee the IGS Group rate and room availability. Rooms may be available after that time, but are not guaranteed. See http://www.omnihotels.com/hotels/default.asp?h_id=4 for information, directions and amenities at the Omni.

Travel- New Haven is easily accessible by Amtrak and Metro North, with regular train service to Union Station New Haven, while is less than a five minute taxi ride from the Hotel. Downtown New Haven and Yale are located just off the intersection of I-95 and I-91. Air travel is by nearby Tweed New Haven Regional Airport (HVN), with direct regional air service from Philadelphia. For travel directions, see www.yale.edu/visitor or at the hotel website.

4. Meals & Hospitality- Yale will provide meals and hospitality for IGS student delegates and administrators from Friday Afternoon, Oct 14, through Brunch on Sunday Oct. 16. The model is a working conference, with appropriate hospitality and meals.

Each IGS Host institution is responsible for meals and hospitality when they host the Summit on their campus. It is our understanding that the Ivy Grad Deans decided upon this model of funding each Summit in Spring 2005, so please confer with your own Grad School Dean (or equivalent). The Host Site rotates, with next year’s host site decided at the current year’s summit, based on willingness and ability of the host student government to organize the event.