Dear graduate students,
It's that time again for the University of Regina Graduate Students Association (URGSA) By-Elections.
We are now accepting nominations for the 2020-21 URGSA council committee.
The positions that are open for nomination include:
Council committee positions (only students of the corresponding faculty are eligible to apply):
Arts
Education
Engineering & Applied Science
Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy
Kenneth Levene Graduate School of Business
Kinesiology & Health Studies
Media, Art, & Performance
Nursing
Science
Social Work
We welcome you to get involved in the GSA by becoming a part of the GSA committee and helping to serve graduate students all year long. To apply, please send a nomination package to urgsa@uregina.ca by Tuesday, September 22nd, 2020 at 11:59 pm. Please read the instructions on the Nomination package carefully before submitting your nominations. Campaigning will run from Wednesday, September 23rd, 2020 at 9:00 am to Wednesday, October 7th, 2020 at 9:00 am
Voting will take place via UR Self-Service between Thursday, October 8th, 2020 12:01 am and Friday, October 9th, 2020 at 11.59 pm. Please see the attachment or visit our website (listed below) to download a nomination package as well as view the constitution and bylaws for a brief description of the positions and responsibilities.
The nomination package can be downloaded at: http://www.ureginagsa.com/nomination-package/ (also attached with this email)
To know more about the governance of URGSA, read our constitution at: http://www.ureginagsa.com/constitution/
To know more about the positions and responsibilities, check out URGSA Bylaws at: http://www.ureginagsa.com/urgsa-bylaws
The 2020-21 term will commence from October 2020 and end April 2021. The position of Graduate Student Executives and council members are mainly voluntary, but a small honorarium will be paid for your time and effort spent on URGSA's activities and planning.
If you have any questions or want to know more about the URGSA, please send us an email at urgsa@uregina.ca
For more updates on the URGSA, like and follow our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/URGSA/
Consistent with our constitution, and to maintain a fair and democratic process, the URGSA has appointed Balaji Udayappan–former GSA Vice-president (Academic Affairs 2019-20) as a Chief Returning Officer (CRO). As CRO, Balaji will help ensure that URGSA Constitution and Bylaws are followed and that any disputes and conflicts are resolved with fairly according to the constitution and by-laws.
If you have any questions about the election process or the positions that are available, please feel free to e-mail us at urgsa@uregina.ca.
Thank you and have a great day!