Graduate Student Life
About
The purpose of Graduate Student Life is to: -Provide programs that help create a tangible graduate student campus community. -Foster graduate student conversation and collaboration across disciplines. -Encourage, recognize and celebrate the uniqueness of graduate students. -Promote existing campus services and encourage service areas to be more inclusive of graduate student needs. -Grow and maintain a graduate student presence in institutional decisions that affect the quality of life for graduate students. -Help departments share ideas about programs and support structures for graduate students. -Conduct regular assessments of graduate student quality of life on campus -Advocate for graduate student needs across campus. Graduate Student Life aims to foster: -Community building: by providing opportunities for graduate students to build community and fostering conversations and collaboration across disciplines. -Communication: by promoting existing campus services to students and helping departments share ideas on how to best serve graduate students -Advocacy: by growing and maintaining a graduate student presence on campus, encouraging services to be more inclusive of graduate students, and conducting regular assessments of graduate student quality of life.