{"id":23,"date":"2006-07-19T16:42:27","date_gmt":"2006-07-20T00:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lassa\/2006\/07\/19\/executive-members-needed\/"},"modified":"2006-07-19T16:42:27","modified_gmt":"2006-07-20T00:42:27","slug":"executive-members-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lassa\/2006\/07\/19\/executive-members-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"Executive Members Needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LASSA has three opportunities to participate more fully in life at SLAIS, while adding valuable experience to your CV.  We are looking for students to fill the following positions: MLIS Member at Large, PhD Rep and Joint Member at Large.  If you have any questions or would like more details please contact the MAS Co-President Erin Hanlon.<br \/>\n<strong>MLIS Members at Large<\/strong> FILLED<br \/>\nThe MLIS rep should<br \/>\n\u2022 Make themselves available to all MLIS students and act as a contact between the students and the larger LASSA membership<br \/>\n\u2022 Help Organize the Orientation Session for New Students to SLAIS<br \/>\nMore specifically, the duties of MLIS Members at Large are:<br \/>\n\u2022 Filling the print cards on a bi-weekly basis and will be reimbursed by LASSA<br \/>\n\u2022 Help in the recruitment of the MAS and MLIS first-year reps<br \/>\n\u2022 Responsible for taking photos of new students<br \/>\n<strong>PhD Member at Large <\/strong>(DRAFT)<br \/>\nAccording to the Constitution, the PhD Member at Large:<br \/>\nOrients and represents the interests of the PhD students.<br \/>\nThe main responsibility of the PhD representative is to represent the interests of the PhD students to LASSA, and ensure that their views and opinions are taken into account in all LASSA decisions. The PhD rep should be available to all PhD students and provide a contact between them and the rest of SLAIS students. This means, then, that the PhD student must be in residence in order to be representative for LASSA.<br \/>\n<strong>Joint Member at Large<\/strong> FILLED<br \/>\nAccording to the Constitution, the Joint Member at Large:<br \/>\nOrients and represents the interests of all Joint students.<br \/>\nThe Joint Members at Large should:<br \/>\n\u2022 be available to all Joint students and provide a contact between them and the rest of the students.<br \/>\n\u2022 organizes with the rest of the Executives the Orientation for new Joint students in September and January, introducing them to the school, the other Joint students and LASSA.<br \/>\nIt is important that the Joint representative be visible and available for all the Joint students as they are such a small and marginalized group in the school. It should be made clear to the Joint students that their concerns are as important as those of the MLIS\/MAS students and that their opinions are heard. This is a <em>non-voting <\/em>position<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LASSA has three opportunities to participate more fully in life at SLAIS, while adding valuable experience to your CV. We are looking for students to fill the following positions: MLIS Member at Large, PhD Rep and Joint Member at Large. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lassa\/2006\/07\/19\/executive-members-needed\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":721,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/721"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}