Y1/Y2/Y3/Y4 representatives:
Serve as the voice of their respective cohorts, providing insights and feedback on program-related matters. Representatives are expected to attend meetings and contribute opinions as you think about what involvement you would like to have, particularly regarding year-specific activities. Y1 students who are interested in getting involved represents the incoming cohort, and provides the most valuable information on Interviews, Orientation, Classes and community since they have gone through the process most recently.
Subject area representatives:
Responsible for attending meetings regularly and representing the interests of their subject areas since some processes differ across the department.
Social committee chair and members:
Plans student socials including happy hours, larger socials and BU-Harvard-MIT neuro socials, as well as other student-centered events like the yearly panels, budget meetings and semester student town halls. Helps with planning, advertising, booking space and ordering food for these events. One social committee member is normally also in charge of coordinating dates with Michale Fee and Josh for their 2x/year meeting with gradvocates.
Gradvocates Manager:
Oversees all Gradvocates activities, ensuring that tasks are completed and making sure things don’t get dropped. Maintains a comprehensive understanding of most/all activities, connects people to the right resources, attends most/all meetings, tracks regularly-occurring meetings, events, TODOs, and ensures that someone takes responsibility for them.
Gradvocates Electronic resource manager:
Manages the logistical and communication needs and keeps track of past communication/activities. Books room for monthly meeting with Mark, updates outlook invite to core members, and sends reminders about meetings on Slack. Sends annual emails. Maintain and updates the public-facing website, internal wiki and Google Drive with activity/communication records.
Gratitude officer:
Responsible for expressing our gratitude to the faculty/admins/department. Should include tracking dates for faculty and admin awards and trying to make sure we nominate someone each year. Can also include purchasing a token of gratitude for all or select faculty each year and signed thank you cards for specific things we appreciate.
Scribe:
Take notes while participating at monthly meetings, monitor notes and surveys from other committee reps and make sure they are preserved on google drive and accessible via wiki. Attend monthly student meeting and monthly Mark meeting. (For now we are sharing note taking responsibilities but would welcome someone who wants to make this their focus)
DEI rep:
Responsible for advocating for DEI issues in meetings with the Grad officer and Department Leadership and for attending the Community of practice meetings with Farrah and keeping other gradvocates up to date. These meetings with Farrah happen periodically and each lab should have a representative. Help connect this community with gradvocates. Ensures students know about Community of practice and how to get involved.
Grad Affairs Committee (GAC) Representative:
Attend GAC meetings and interface with Gradvocates/Mark meetings. Reports big changes/wins (internship policy, etc.) to the other gradvocates/students.
Admissions Committee Representative:
Attend grad admissions committee meetings. Advocate for student concerns there, offering student perspective. Helps organize interviews and help ensure current grads participate appropriately in the process. Interfaces with Gradvocates/Mark meetings. Reports big changes/wins (better zoom scheduling, approval for second look, etc.) to the other gradvocates/students.
Ed committee rep/Teaching Development fellow:
Attend Ed committee meetings and interface with Gradvocates/Mark regarding Ed committee matters, mainly about curriculum and TAing. Organizes TA dinners and TA surveys 1x per semester. Usually also fills the role of Teaching Development Fellow for BCS which includes a stipend bonus
Seminar committee rep:
Attend seminar committee meetings ~4x per year and advocate for student concerns there, offering student perspective. Select, host and introduce the Teuber lecturer. Interface with Gradvocates/Mark meetings. Report big changes/wins (better advertising/scheduling, etc.) to the other gradvocates/students.