Interested in serving on SGB?
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Financial Chair
Attends GSA Social Sciences Council meetings to obtain and ensure funding for the Department of Information Science student body. Maintains records of expenses and income. Collects receipts and reimburses individuals as needed.
Social Chair
Plans social and academic events for each quarter. Organizes volunteers to help with events. Publicizes events to students, faculty, and staff by making and distributing flyers. Determines the necessary funding for events, maintains records of expenses, and submits receipts to the Financial Chair for reimbursement. Social chairpersons typically organize one event a quarter, such as a Welcome party (fall quarter) and the End of Year party (spring quarter).
Webmaster (1 or more)
Maintains the SGB web page. Moderates the organization's listserv. Distributes information about meetings and events to students, faculty, and staff via e-mail. Takes meeting minutes.
Graduation/Orientation Chair
Prepares introductory information for entering students regarding SGB. Recruits student speakers and volunteers for orientation and commencement ceremonies. Organizes class gift for graduating class in Spring quarter. Serves as a liaison to the Director of Events for GSE&IS.
Liaison to the Alumni
Attends meetings of the UCLA LIS Alumni Association. Encourages active involvement and support of the alumni for SGB and departmental activities and events by communicating with the association officers and members. This representative is also responsible for the collection and dispersal of graduating student data to the Alumni Association.
Liaison to the Dean
Approaches the Dean of GSE&IS with SGB concerns and recommendations on a quarterly basis. Apprises the Dean of SGB activities. Collects pertinent and noteworthy information from the Dean and makes it available to students. Attends Faculty Executive Committee Meetings.
Faculty Liaison (at least 1 first year student and 1 second year student)
The faculty liaisons will solicit student feedback continually throughout the year and then present them at the Information Studies faculty meetings. The faculty liaisons will be responsible for publicizing the responses they have received. They will attend the Professional Programs Committee (PPC) meetings and provide student input regarding the MLIS program requirements and report back to the students in order to disseminate pertinent information. In this position, you also attend IS faculty meetings, where you can see behind the scenes of our department and learn a great deal about life at a major research university.
Doctoral Student Representative (1 or more)
Serves as the student representative on the IS Doctoral Program Committee (DPC), and the representative of PhD students on the Professional Programs Committee (PPC) and in IS faculty meetings.