Welcome Everybody to

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• Welcome Everybody to
• ChE-Graduate Student Association Elections and
  Happy Hour !

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Welcome to ChE-GSA Elections and Happy Hour!

• Graduate Student Association (GSA) Functions
  and Organization

Organized by Jason Wallace, Dongxia Liu Advised
by Prof. Shaw H. Chen Helped with
Supacharee Roddecha, Matthew Moynihan
Nov., 09, 2007
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GSA Functions

• Enrichment, Support, and Involvement
• Enrichment socially and academically
• Support in the department and for the future
• Involvement in department functions and
  activities
• Enrichment
• Social events
• Graduate Student Seminar Series
• Welcome and Farewell Parties
• Support
• Presentation during Graduate Student Orientation
• Advice, referral help
• Career help and advice
• Access to existing resources
• Involvement
• Polling of student interests and needs
• Joining in department activities
• Taking responsibility of the Graduate Lounge

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Enrichment

• Social Events
• Happy Hours
• Social Outings
• Picnics, tours, hiking, trips to the beach
• Welcome Party (start of Fall semester)
• Farewell Party (sending off graduating students)
• Graduate Student Seminar Series
• Sharing research and fostering discussion and
  collaboration
• GOAL is one event per month

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Support

• Presentation to new students during Graduate
  Orientation
• Advice and referral help
• Website with expectations and advice specifically
  for Chem. Eng. Graduate Students
• E-mail hot-line to address questions and
  concerns
• Which channel to address a grievance with an
  advisor, how to access tutoring or English help,
  where can one find X off campus, what instruments
  do various groups/departments have available for
  use, etc.
• Career help and advice
• Keep a database of companies and universities
  former students have gone to work for
• Keep a database of perspective employers in
  various sub-disciplines and geographic areas
  (compile students job searches)
• Offer advise on writing resumes and CVs
• Access to Existing Resources
• Compile lists of other organizations and the
  services they provide
• The Career Center, the Graduate Organizing Group,
  the International Students Office, the Writing
  Center, UR Materials Research Symposium, etc.

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Involvement

• Bringing students concerns to the Dept.
• Maintaining the Graduate Student Lounge
• Polling of student interests/needs
• Lunch with Dept. seminar speakers

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Logistics

• Finance
• Planning and coordinating spending with the dept.
  
• Elections
• Annual elections of new officers
• Constitution and by-laws
• Write up detailed procedures, policies, and goals
  for the GSA

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GSA Organization

• Faculty Advisor
• Prof. Chen
• President
• Oversees the entire GSA
• Vice Presidents
• Social Chair
• Organizes Happy Hours, Parties, Outings
• Academic Chair
• Organizes Seminars, Lunches, Faculty Candidate
  volunteers
• Maintains e-mail hot-line for students concerns
• Organizational Chair
• Treasurer
• Polls students on relevant issues
• Coordinates care of the Graduate Student Lounge
• Maintains job database
• Compiles list of available resources

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GSA in a Glance
Faculty At Large
-Enrichment -Support -Involvement
President
Faculty Advisor
Dept. Office
Vice Presidents
Social Chair
Academic Chair
Organizing Chair

• Happy
• Hours
• -Parties
• -Outings

• Seminars
• -Lunches
• w/Speakers
• -Faculty
• Candidates
• -E-mail
• Hot-line

• Treasurer
• -Polls
• -Gavett 247
• -Job
• Database
• -List of
• Resources

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Welcome to ChE-GSA Elections and Happy Hour!
Thanks!
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