The students in attendance last night approved $635 for the program.
"The quality of graduate student advising is an important issue," said Adam P. Fagen, information coordinator for GSC and former president of the group. "The Excellence in Mentoring Award is meant to recognize good advising."
Fagen said he he hopes GSC will address the issue of quality advising in their meetings this year.
"There was an attempt last year to put together a document highlighting the issues for the administration," Fagen said. " But it never really got dealt with. It sort of got lost in committee."
GSC member Kyriell Muhammad said he thought graduate students will be aggravated by the renovations at Widener.
"We're going to here about the library and what an inconvenience it is with the construction, lost carrells and books being moved to the Depository," he said.
The GSC meeting also heard reports from the Graduate Student Health Advisory Committee and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Library Committee.