PhD and Grad Students Involvement in Governance

April 2008 issue

As a member of one of the few departments in the university with an operative PhD program, I'm concerned about ways in which the university might work to better embrace PhD students. Would it be possible, for instance, to include graduate representatives on some (or any) university committees? Might it be possible to create a committee that would deal only with graduate affairs? PhD students that I know certainly seem to feel that they are not well-represented in campus policy making and generally an absent voice, something that was certainly not the case at my own university when I was a graduate student...

Response

Source: Peggy Burke
Title: AVP of Student Development.
Unit/Department: Student Affairs

Response:
All students at DePaul University are represented in university governance by the Student Government Association. The SGA takes their responsibility of addressing all students' seriously and is committed to improving the quality of the DePaul student experience for both undergraduate and graduate students. Any questions about PhD and graduate student representation on university committees and in decision-making processes should be directed to the President of SGA, Kurt Gonska, kgonska@depaul.edu or the Student Government Association, sga.depaul.edu.