Graduate Professional Council (GPC)

Assembly Series Committee

• Purpose:The purpose of the Assembly Series Committee is to discuss suggestions for speakers for the Wednesday Assembly Series in Graham Chapel, to approve all such speakers, and to set the Assembly Series Calendar for the following year.
• Meetings: TBD.
• Representative: 2-6 Graduate Students Needed. To Apply Click Here

Commencement Committee

• Purpose:The Committee plans the logistics, scheduling, and other events of the annual commencement ceremonies and coordinates activities with other commencement-related groups, such as the Honorary Degree Committee and Senior Student Association.
• Meetings: TBD.
• Representative: 1 Graduate Student Needed. To Apply Click Here

Discrimination and Title IX

• Purpose:The purpose of the student Discrimination and Title IX Grievance Committee is to hear complaints by graduate and undergraduate students pertaining to discrimination based upon gender, as covered in Title IX. The committee will also hear complaints by undergraduate students pertaining to discrimination or discriminatory harassment.
• Meetings: No meetings unless there is a complaint to hear. When there is a complaint, there may be several meetings, certainly at a minimum two.
• Representative: 2 Graduate Students Needed. To Apply Click Here

Graduate Student Health Advisory Committee

• Purpose: This committee advises Dr. Glass, the director of Student Health and Counseling Services on the Hilltop Campus. It selects its own chair, and sets its own agenda.
• Representative: Charles Vos

Holocaust Memorial Lecture Committee

• Purpose:The Committee’s purpose is to make recommendations concerning a speaker for the University’s annual lecture, inaugurated in 1989 by then-Chancellor William H. Danforth to commemorate the Holocaust and to address its broader implications for other instances of systematic persecution and mass murder. The lecture is part of the Assembly Series on Wednesday mornings at 11:00 a.m., a
  time when few classes are scheduled so that maximum attendance by students and faculty is possible.
• Meetings: Once a year in the spring to discuss and rank potential speakers for upcoming lectures.
• Representative: 1 Graduate Student Needed. To Apply Click Here

Library Council

• Purpose: To advise the Dean of Library Services about general library operations, to advise the Dean of library needs seen by students and faculty and (when needed) to compile reports on particular library services, funding or other issues.
• Meetings: 2-4 times per academic year.
• Representative: 1-2 Graduate Students Needed. To Apply Click Here

Parking and Traffic Advisory Committee

• Purpose: To advise the Director of Transportation on traffic, parking or transportation issues for the Hilltop Campus, including alternatives, major policy changes, and fine and ticket issues.
• Meetings: We try to meet quarterly, although occasionally additional meetings are required if pressing issues need to be presented to the committee. However, in addition to the larger group, there is a monthly sub committee that meets to consider parking ticket appeals submitted to our office. It is extremely important to have student input in this group as well.
• Representative: 1-2 Graduate Students Needed. To Apply Click Here

Committee on Safety and Security

• Purpose: The Committee on Safety and Security is intended to facilitate communication, coordination, and the distribution of information dealing with campus safety and security. The Committee may serve also as an consultative body or sounding board for the Washington University Police Department and other departments concerned with safety and security issues. In carrying out its purposes, the Committee may collect information, ask questions, call attention to apparent problems, and make recommendations for addressing safety and security concerns.
• Representative: 1-2 Graduate Students Needed. To Apply Click Here

Sports and Recreation Advisory Committee

• Purpose: To advise the Athletic Director in the formulation of policies and the setting of priorities with regard to recreation, intramural athletics and club sports, intercollegiate athletics, utilization of facilities, and repair/renovation of facilities. The committee also receives and responds to recommendations and suggestions from members of the University community.
• Meetings: Once during the fall and twice during the spring semester.
• Representatives: 1 Graduate Student Needed. To Apply Click Here

University Judicial Board

• Purpose: The University Judicial Board hears and decides cases of serious student misconduct referred to it by the Judicial Administrator or by individual School or College academic integrity panels, and performs other duties as prescribed by the University Judicial Code (published in Bearings, the student handbook and elsewhere). (Faculty members appointed by Senate Council; Student members appointed by Student Union and the Graduate Professional Council.)
• Meetings: An annual training of 1 1/2 hours, plus meetings when cases are brought.
• Representative: 3-6 Graduate Students Needed. To Apply Click Here