Responsibilities
Alumni Representatives must be dues-paid NBGSA members and are required to attend their NBGSA Regional Meeting as well as the annual National Black Graduate Student Conference (NBGSC).
Other duties include the following:
- Report to the designated Regional Representative.
- Work in conjunction with designated Alumni Alumni Representative.
- Serve on the editorial board of Call and Response: The Scholarly Journal of the National Black Graduate Student Association, reviewing articles from individuals in area.
- Identify and target corporate and institutional sponsors for division.
- Maintain membership in key academic/professional organizations.
- Attend at least two discipline-related regional/national meetings annually, and develop contacts which promote NBGSA.
- Recruit NBGSA members from division-related local, regional, and national organizations by (1) developing a list of target organizations and (2) helping to establish partnership agreements between these organizations and NBGSA.
- Encourage Alumni members in your region to attend discipline-related regional/national meetings.
- Help develop the agenda for Alumni breakouts at NBGSA regional and national gatherings.
- Relay discipline-related concerns to the NBGSA leadership via your designated Regional Representative.
- Send one formal e-mail communication per month to Alumni members in your region.(Ideally, this should include a digest of all relevant announcements and news.)
