Division G Graduate Student Executive Committee Organization
Senior Representative
The Senior Representative serves a one-year term, leading the Committee in all of its efforts to support and provide resources to Division G graduate student members. The Senior Rep also acts as the liaison between the Committee and the Division’s Vice President and executive cabinet leadership, as well as the AERA Graduate Student Council.
Junior Representative
The Junior Representative will have served on one of the two subcommittees for at least one year and makes a further two-year commitment to the Committee. The Junior Rep supports all subcommittee work throughout the year and apprentices the role of the Senior Representative. The Junior Rep is nominated by one or more members of the Executive Committee and assumes the role of Senior Rep the following year.
Graduate Student Executive Committee
The Division G Graduate Student Executive Committee consists of two subcommittees: (1) Mentoring and Student Outreach (MSO); and (2) Social Media and Technology (SMT). Each subcommittee strives to meet the needs of graduate students across the country and around the world. Below is a brief description of each subcommittee’s goals.
(1) Mentoring and Student Outreach
The mentoring subcommittee plans the Mentoring Pre-Conference program to take place the first day of the Annual Meeting each year. We target graduate students at various stages in their respective programs. This half-day workshop is designed to provide resources for graduate students and facilitate relationships with faculty, helping to create a network of mentors to troubleshoot issues and contact for support
(2) Social Media and technology
Our committee facilitates nationwide discussions between faculty and graduate students concerning the relationship between educational processes and the social contexts of education in which they occur. We continue our webinar series, providing graduate students with opportunities throughout the year to have these conversations with scholars whose work and research focus on all the various social contexts of education. To remain connected to the DivG community and events, follow @aeradivg on Twitter, join the group “*Official* AERA Division G: Social Context of Education” on Facebook, and follow @aera_divg on Instagram.