[Bgsa] More details on EEOB Admissions Committee representative position

[Carla Essenberg]

Hi folks,

I've been asked for a little more information on what would be involved in
being the Admissions Committee representative, so I asked Wendy to elaborate
a bit.  Here is what she said:

"As I envision it, the student would be a full, voting member of the
Admissions
Committee, except that his/her participation would be restricted to
recruitment-related issues, not admissions.  Within the realm of
recruitment, I
expect the student to have quite a bit of influence.  As you know, I'm
really
trying to beef up our recruitment efforts, and I highly value input from
grad
students, which is why I did the survey.

I would like the student representative to be highly involved in planning
recruitment strategies and recruitment weekend in general, and to have
primary
responsibility for organizing Gradfest.  To this end, he/she might want to
organize a separate grad student committee; I don't think this necessarily
has
to be a one-person job.  Based on responses to the student survey, I think
recruitment weekend should also include a social event (Friday-night dinner,
perhaps) for the current and prospective students, without the faculty
present;
the student representative would also have responsibility for organizing
this (or
delegating it to someone else, as they see fit).   Of course, the rest of
the
committee and I will be happy to provide input and help at all stages."

Let me know if this sounds like something you might like to do.

Cheers,

Carla

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Carla Essenberg <cesse001 at student.ucr.edu>
Date: Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:03 AM
Subject: Representative to EEOB Admissions Committee needed
To: bgsa at lists.ucr.edu


Dear Fellow Graduate Students,

As you know, several committees have recently been set up to run the EEOB
program, and we currently have representatives on two of them (the Teaching
and Program Committee (Mart Turcotte) and the Web Committee (Teri Orr)).
The faculty would now like for us to nominate a representative for the
Admissions Committee, and I am writing to find out which of you might be
interested in this position.

Here is what Wendy says about what this student will do:


"I wanted to ask for your help with finding a student to serve on the EEOB
Admissions Committee.  We need someone who has already advanced to
candidacy, is in good academic standing, and is willing to play a major role
in organizing recruitment weekend, especially Gradfest (which is tentatively
scheduled for March 6 at the Botanical Gardens).  He or she would not,
however, be involved in reviewing applicants' files."

Recruiting good graduate students, as I'm sure you guys are aware, is vital
for the reputation of our program, so it benefits all of us to see that
recruitment is well done, and, because we've all looked for graduate
programs recently, we have insights about what students are looking for that
should be valuable to the committee.  In addition, our representative on
this committee can help to make sure the recruitment process is honest and
transparent, which should also be to the benefit of the program, and is
something that we may be better equipped to think about than the faculty
are, because we have a better idea of what new students may be expecting and
what sorts of things may come as surprises to them.

So, I hope that many of you will be interested in this position.  If you
have advanced to candidacy and might be interested in doing this, please
send me an email.  Just so you know, the student we nominate will need to be
approved by the faculty on the Admissions Committee.

Cheers,

Carla

P.S. Wendy would like to thank all of the folks who filled out the
recruitment survey.  She says our responses have been very helpful in
guiding the committee's plans for recruitment.




-- 
Carla Essenberg
PhD Candidate and EEOBGSA President
Department of Biology
University of California, Riverside



-- 
Carla Essenberg
PhD Candidate and EEOBGSA President
Department of Biology
University of California, Riverside
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