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<div>Hello Graduate Students!</div>
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<div>Are you interested in having a louder and more active voice in your campus? Do you want to be a catalyst of change for grad students? Do you love being invovled? If so, please consider declaring your candidacy to serve as an elected office for GSA for the 2012-2013 school year! A blurb about each position open is included below, and can also be found online in the GSA Constitution (<a href="http://gsa.ucr.edu/documents/Constitution053007.pdf" target="_blank">http://gsa.ucr.edu/documents/Constitution053007.pdf</a>):</div>
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<li>The President Represents all graduate students to various campus leaders, oversees the overall operation of the GSA office, works with presidents (undergrad & grad) from all other UC schools on systemwide concerns, and chairs the Graduate Student Council.</li>
<li>The Executive Vice President acts as the liaison between UCR and the other UCs, and keeps grad students up-to-date on pertinent state and federal issues that affect them and works to get students invested on issues outside of Riverside.</li>
<li>The Vice President of Academic Affairs works with departmental mini-GSA organizations to make sure that the needs and concerns of our entire graduate community are addressed.</li>
<li>The Public Relations Officer throws a Grad Bash for all grad students once a quarter providing an opportunity for you to informally meet other UCR graduate students, and makes sure you get fed for free simply by attending any meetings and events hosted by the GSA.</li>
<li>The Health Insurance Committee Chairperson works in collaboration with the Student Insurance Coordinator at the Campus Health Center and with the UCSHIP Committee, comprised of current graduate students and advocates on our behalves to ensure that we are fairly represented in matters pertaining to our health insurance.</li>
<li>The Finance Officer makes sure that our budget is being maintained, wisely spent, and adequately supports our organization’s needs.</li></ul>
<div>I would also strongly urge you to contact the current officer to ask questions about what he/she does on a daily basis before deciding to declare for candidacy. Each of the officers' contacts can be found through this link: <a href="http://gsa.ucr.edu/Officers.html" target="_blank">http://gsa.ucr.edu/Officers.html</a>.</div>
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<div>If you are interested in running for an office, please send a 1 paragraph statement of candidacy to the GSA President at <a href="mailto:president.gsaucr@gmail.com" target="_blank">president.gsaucr@gmail.com</a>. <b>All candidate statements must be received by April 8th at 5:00pm (NO EXCEPTIONS). </b>The elections will take place online between April 23-27. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at <a href="mailto:aboot002@ucr.edu" target="_blank">aboot002@ucr.edu</a>. </div>
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<div>Thanks,</div>
<div>Adam</div>
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<div>Adam Jackson-Boothby, M.A.</div>
<div>Executive Vice President, 2010-2012</div></div>
<div>Graduate Student Association</div>
<div><a href="http://www.gsa.ucr.edu/" target="_blank">www.gsa.ucr.edu</a></div></div><br><br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><font style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif" face="arial narrow,sans-serif">President Graduate Student Association 2011-2012</font><br style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
<div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">PhD Candidate GSOE<br>UCR<br><a href="http://www.gsa.ucr.edu" target="_blank">www.gsa.ucr.edu</a><br>Office: (951) 827-3740<br>Fax: (951) 827-6358</div><br>