Sigma Tau Delta

EGSA Officers

2010/2011 Officers

• Rosalind Bowers
  
• Keith Cameron
  
• Jameson Hogan
  
• Susan Jardine
  
• Elyse Lamzus
  

Election Process 

Every spring semester graduate students are asked to nominate andelect a group of graduate students to serve as officers of the EnglishGraduate Student Association.  The elected officers serve for thecourse of the following academic year. 

Typically, EGSA uses the designations President, Vice President, andTreasurer as titles for each officer.  Some years, officers havedecided to share the workload equally, without regard to thesetitles.  In more than one case, the officers chose to assign newtitles that reflected their sharing of the workload. 

Responsibilities 

Officers should be committed and prepared to organize events andstay in contact with all graduate students on an ongoing basis. While they often make it look easy, their behind the scenes workinvolves: surveying graduate students via e-mail or printed memos,writing proposals in accordance with Graduate Colloquium Guidelines,advertising all events with flyers, posters, and word of mouth, writingletters to speakers before and after engagements, working with thegraduate director on various issues, contacting professors to see ifthey can lead workshops, updating information such as this website,writing articles for the EGSAStencil Newsletter and producingthe newsletter, making phone calls, keeping records of paperwork, andholding planning meetings.  As one former officer put it, "I'm notgoing to lie to you, it's a lot of work." 

At the same time, serving as an EGSA officer is a wonderfulopportunity to get to know more graduate students and professors and toserve the department in a meaningful way.   One formerofficer said, "Gathering our large and diverse group of graduatestudents together was a challenge, but in the process I met a lot ofpeople and felt more like I was part of a community."  Officersalso report feeling encouraged by faculty support:  "It was greatto see how faculty were willing to work with EGSA to create workshopsand lectures that graduate students would find beneficial." Serving on EGSA also provides officers a chance to learn about howadministration works at the level of both the department and theuniversity.   "I learned skills that I'm sure I will use inmy future education career," reported one former president. Serving on EGSA also provides an opportunity to put some of those greatideas you have into action.  Finally, serving as an EGSA officergives you a chance to have the "inside scoop" on English Departmentfunctions and events, to meet the scholars delivering lectures, andknow faculty and administrators in other departments.