Dear graduate and professional students,
I hope your start to the quarter is going well!
For those of you interested in leadership, professional development, advocacy, or community, I am excited to share the following opportunity. The Graduate and Professional Student Senate (GPSS) represents over 15,000 graduate and professional students at the University of Washington. Senators are grad students who represent academic departments as well as non-academic programs and communities. GPSS hosts events and programming, provides opportunities for engagement through internal committees and university-wide liaison positions, and offers funding for academic and professional development. Lastly, they lobby at the state and federal level on behalf of the needs of UW graduate and professional students. To give you a sense of the level of commitment, the Senate meets 4-5 times per quarter with an attendance requirement of at least 3 meetings. They meet every other week at 5:30 on Wednesdays, which commits you to just 3 afternoons a quarter.
