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The GREPs select among themselves a president, secretary, and
treasurer. The secretary keeps the meeting minutes, and the treasurer
tracks the GREPs' funds. The president has a few additional
responsibilities, namely to call meetings (with the other GREPs, all
grad students, and the department chair on a regular basis and with
other people on demand), to prepare agendas for meetings and long-term
changes, and to run the meetings. And it really will be your
responsibility; without calling the meetings and the desire to improve
things, nothing will happen at all. You have all the opportunity, but
you'll have to use it.
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| GSA/UCSB Representatives |
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It is the responsibility of the campus-wide GSA representative to attend the
GSA General Assembly meetings and represent the Computer Science graduate
students there. You will also be responsible for passing along any information
presented at these assembly meetings to the department's graduate
students. GSA Assembly meetings occur once a month, and you must attend at
least two per quarter.
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| Recruitment Committee |
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Being a graduate student representative for the recruiting committee
should be of major interest to you if you intend to apply for faculty
positions later in your career. You get to see all application folders
that the department receives for its faculty positions. For some of
them, you will read the accompanying letters of recommendation, and
even fewer are going to be invited for an interview. Your opinion will
be heard on the regular committee meetings. So far we do not have a
vote in actual hiring decisions, this will be up to you to change. The
time investment is low during the Fall Quarter, and as high as you
want during the Winter and early Spring Quarters.
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| Facilities Committee |
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The CS GSA representative to the facilities committee serves as a
communicator between the grad students, faculty, and staff on all
facilities issues. "Facilities" includes both the physical spaces of
the department as well as its computer systems. The representative
gathers student comments, concerns, and complaints and presents these
to the departmental Facilities Committee. Additionally, he or she
coordinates with staff and faculty members on the planning of
facilities changes. Finally, the representative keeps the student
body well-informed of any facilities issues and their resolution.
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| Advising Committee |
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This position is in charge of gathering and voicing the complaints and
suggestions from the graduate student body with regards to any issues
that pertain to their academic life. Example issues that have recently
fallen within this committee are: restructuring of screening exams,
rising GSR salary levels and early planning/expanding of courses
offered by the department.
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| Graduate Admissions Committee |
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The Graduate Admissions Committee processes all of the new graduate
student applications for the department, and selects the most
promising candidates for acceptance to the program. The graduate
student representative to this committee has the responsibility to
monitor these activities and contribute to the selection process.
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| Colloquium Committee |
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The grad student representative for colloquium matters has mainly two
responsibilities. First, s/he gets to participate in decision making
for inviting distinguished lecturers and other colloquia
speakers. This is a fairly infrequent activity, usually there are no
real meetings but only email discussions at the beginning of the
school year. Second, the colloquium representative gets to host the
lunches for faculty candidates with the students. The staff does most
of the work, including ordering food and beverages, but it is the
representative's job to invite fellow students, to encourage feedback
to the recruiting committee, and of course to be present at the
lunches. Being the colloquium representative can be time consuming
during the hiring season, but it is a great opportunity to meet
prospective faculty and to socialize in between coding sessions You're
the right person for this job if you like motivating your peers, if
you enjoy meeting new people, and if you don't mind pizza.
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| Undergraduate Curriculum Committee |
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The Undergraduate Curriculum Committee decides about undergraduate
courses, makes class schedules, and estimates the number of students
that will enroll in each course. The graduate student representative
must attend a weekly meeting. In this meeting, committee members
discuss changes to course descriptions and covered topics. Also,
student evaluation statistics are discussed in detail and any
appropriate changes are recommended. The committee consists of five
professors, one undergrad student, and one graduate student.
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| Website Committee |
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The student representative to the CS Department Website Committee
attends meetings concerning how the department presents itself on the
web. Also, the representative is in charge of maintaining the
CS GREPs web-site and the CS
graduate alumni server. This position
allows you greater access to many details of the computing infrastructure of
the department, as well as contact with the faculty and staff. Interested
students should have reasonable experience developing web-sites and
administering Unix machines. This is perhaps the most hands-on position
available.
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