This page lists the members and duties of each LGCU committee. LGCU members within the funded cohort are expected to serve on at least one committee every year. An asterisk (*) next to an individual’s name indicates that they are the designated contactperson for the committee (not applicable for some committees/positions; in that case, feel free to contact whoever you are most comfortable with).

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Executive

Presidents

Claudia Raihert, Jules Torgue

Represent the LGCU to the department; attend department meetings; organize LGCU meetings; various other duties.

Treasurer

Liam McFadden, Nick Haggarty

Manages the LGCU’s finances.

Secretary

Laura Escobar

Takes minutes at meetings and provides related support.

GSU Representatives

Will Williams, Irene Zhuang

Attend monthly GSU council meetings.

CUPE 3902, Unit 1 Stewards

St. George:

UTM:

UTSC:

  • (vacant)

Assist members with issues in the workplace; answer questions about CUPE 3902; represent the department in CUPE 3902; attend Steward Council meetings. Not an actual committee of the LGCU; elected by members of CUPE 3902, Unit 1 with 50 hours or more of work in the relevant department.

Social committee

Develops and runs social events and programs for the LGCU, including the Welcome Workshop, the Buddy program, and various ad-hoc social gatherings.

Department space committee

Maintains various aspects of department space, including the grad student computers, the departmental library, the department plants, the fridges and small appliances, the grad space couches, and work orders.

Student representative positions

SIG student reps

Curriculum student reps

*Lee Jiang, Christy Moser

Attend departmental curriculum committee meetings; convey information to graduate students.

Appeals student rep

Kaleigh Woolford

Participate in the department’s Academic Appeals Committee, representing the student perspective in the SGS Appeals Process.

Specialist committees

TWPL committee

Oversees and reviews articles for the departmental journal, Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics.

Grant repository committee

Annie Chong, Lucy Li

Collects and distributes successful grant proposals that have been made available by current and former LGCU members.

TA evaluations coordinator

*Deniz Sarikaya

Receives and holds onto TA evaluations; distributes these to TAs after they have finished all grading for courses.

Space assignment committee

*Anissa Baird, Calvin Quick

Handle grad space desk assignments and concerns about space usage.

Tutoring coordinator

*Ryan MacDonald

Checks email for tutoring requests; announces available positions to the tutoring list.

LGCU Website Committee

*Juhyung Cho, Nicole Chan, Lucy Li, Jiayuan Daniel Yue

Develop and maintain the LGCU website.

Student confidential support

*Anissa Baird, Crystal Chen

Point of contact for students in the department for any concerns they may be having (e.g., Advisor-Student conflict, graduate program concerns/anxiety, etc.).

TA Supervision Excellence Award (TASEA) committee

*Jack Mahlmann, Calvin Quick, Deniz Sarikaya, Louis Careri

Create and maintain the LGCU program to recognize excellence in supervision of TAs.