Spring 2023 SAGSA Committee

• Chair: Noemi Rosario Martinez (noemi_rosario_martinez@sfu.ca)

• Co-Chair: Pavel Vlasov (pavel_vlasov@sfu.ca)

• Secretary: Carolina Miranda (ana_carolina_miranda@sfu.ca)

• Treasurer: Issa Mijares (clarissa_cecilia_majares@sfu.ca)

• Teaching Support Staff Union (TSSU) Stewards: Morgaine Lee (morgaine_lee@sfu.ca) and Noah Sim (noah_sim@sfu.ca)

• Graduate Student Society (GSS) Representative: Lisa Kremer (lisa_kremer@sfu.ca)

• Department and Hiring Committee Representatives: Sarah Law (sarah_law@sfu.ca)

• Graduate Program Committee (GPC) Representative: Hannah Couse (hannah_couse@sfu.ca)

Positions in SAGSA

There are many exciting positions in SAGSA – get involved!

• Chair: responsible for organizing and chairing monthly meetings, and acting as a liaison between the graduate student body and the SAGSA caucus. The Chair sends out doodle polls to check availability one or two weeks prior to meetings, and emails information about upcoming meeting and events to the graduate mail list (sa-grad@sfu.ca).

• Secretary: responsible for taking minutes at SAGSA caucus meetings, sending out minutes to the student body and the GSS AIRO (airo@sfugradsociety.ca) ensure that SAGSA qualifies for GSS funding.

• Treasurer: responsible for recording and reporting on SAGSA finances, filing financial motions at caucus meetings, processing SAGSA professional development grants, ensuring that paper work with the GSS is kept up to date (i.e. core funds must be transferred to the trust account at the end of the academic year).

• Teaching Support Staff Union (TSSU) Stewards: responsible for serving as the TSSU representative within the SA department. Duties include: attending monthly Steward, General Membership and Caucus meetings; informing SA students about current updates from the union, in particular news on bargaining the collective agreement with the employer, job action and picket line information; serving as the initial go-to person for information about the collective agreement, benefits and services provided by your union; reporting to the Chief Steward of the TSSU any actions taken by the SA department, a professor, an instructor or staff member that violate the collective agreement; advertising and recruiting SA students for General Membership meetings, rallies, job actions and social events. During periods of job action, the Steward position requires at most about a 20 hour time commitment each month and pays a stipend up to $250 per term.

• Graduate Student Society (GSS) Representative: responsible for attending monthly council meetings at the GSS, representing the interests of the SA students at the GSS, and reporting to the SAGSA caucus about issues impacting the GSS and issues of concern that arise at the GSS. This is also a stipended position, and may be held by a GSS rep and an alternate who can attend meetings instead of the primary position holder.

• Department Representatives: responsible for attending monthly SA department meetings, reporting back to the SAGSA caucus, representing the interests of SA graduates in the department, bringing graduate student issues to the attention of the SA department, and liaising between the faculty and SA graduate students. To add items to the agenda the department should email the Secretary to the Chair (sachrsec@sfu.ca).

• Graduate Program Committee (GPC) Representative: responsible for attending monthly Graduate Program Committee meetings, reviewing admissions and funding applications, representing graduate student interests providing feedback and input to the GPC, and reporting (non-confidential) information back to the SAGSA caucus.

• Hiring Committee Representative: responsible for attending monthly meetings of the Departmental Hiring committee, representing graduate student interests, providing feedback on hiring processes, and reporting back to the SAGSA caucus.

 **The SAGSA recognizes that stipending positions fosters diversity and recognizes the usually unpaid labour of graduate students. Currently only TSSU position have stipends and potentially GSS either funded by SAGSA, GSS or TSSU.