2017-18 Kickoff meeting Wed, Oct 4th 2017

Welcome to MGLC! McCormick Graduate Leadership Council Student-led leadership organization Strive to achieve the following goals: Build a graduate student community among the departments within the McCormick School Organize social, academic, and professional activities Facilitate communication between McCormick graduate students and the McCormick Dean’s office 2

Who are we? Any current PhD or MS student in McCormick can join! Have ~30 members across the McCormick departments Advised by Bruce Lindvall, Assistant Dean for Graduate Studies Paula Straaton (McCormick Graduate Studies Business Administrator) is our Finance Director (Tech L254) 3

Fall Quarter Meeting Schedule Meetings every other Wednesday, 5-6pm, Room TBD. Tentative schedule: October 4th October 18th November 1st November 15th November 29th December 13th (?) 4

Examples of Past Events Alumni Wine & Dine Transferable Skills Workshops MGLC: Graduate Student Night at Bat17 MGLC Goes to the Museum of Science and Industry of Chicago Engineering Grand Prix Preparing Future Professionals MGLC Presents: Beers & Wings MGLC: Night Out at The Second City MGLC: Adler After Dark And many more! 5

2017-2018 Event Schedule U-Pass Distribution New Student Luncheon Norris Center Graduate Student Organization Fair Ongoing: Transferable Skills Workshops, PFP/PFF Fall: Beer & Wings, “Cooking, Culture, & Communication Night”, Museum Outing, SICC Winter: Alternative Careers Panel, McCormick Talent Show, Trivia Night Spring: Wine & Dine, Science and Engineering Grand Prix New ideas? 6

2017-2018 Positions Co-Chairs: Hussain Sangji and Shay Wallace (previously Chris Mizzi and Shawn Chen ) Website and Social Media: TBD (June Lee & Aymeric Punel) GLAC Representative: TBD Grand Prix Co-chairs, Challenge Leads, Volunteer Coordinator TBD (Jaye Harada, Chris Mizzi, Curtis Wang) Alumni Relations: TBD (Garrett Lau?) Professional Development: TBD (Hussain Sangji & Amr Elfar) Transferable Skills Workshops: TBD (Eric Earley) Event Planners and Volunteers: Everyone! 7

Things to Consider When Planning Events Reserving rooms: Jason Grocholski (j-grocholski@northwestern.edu) Tax-exempt forms and reimbursements: Paula Straaton (p-straaton@northwestern.edu) Advertising via McCormick student listserv: Bruce Lindvall (b-lindvall@northwestern.edu) Advertising via Tech Monitors/Plan-it-Purple TBD 8

Website and Social Media Role Responsibilities: Update member headshots Keep website current (links, names, etc.) Maintain listserv Run Facebook Group/LinkedIn Page Past Contacts: Aymeric Punel AymericPunel@u.northwestern.edu June Lee HyojunLee2018@u.northwestern.edu Shay Wallace wallace@u.northwestern.edu 9

GLAC Representative Role Responsibilities: GLAC - Serves as a liaison between graduate students and administration for graduate issues, represent the 'voice of graduate students' on campus Attend GLAC meetings (Monthly) Attend GLAC Chicago campus meeting (Quarterly)- may be done via Skype, etc. Keep MGLC informed about relevant information from GLAC 10

Grand Prix Chair & Challenge Leads Role Responsibilities: Chairs: Coordinate with local Evanston school district to plan middle school engineering competition Challenge Leads: Design and test challenge events for Grand Prix Volunteer Coordinator: Recruit graduate student volunteers Past Contact: Jaye Harada jayeharada2015@u.northwestern.edu Curtis Wang ycwang@u.northwestern.edu Chris Mizzi christophermizzi2020@u.northwestern.edu Andrew Lai a.lai@u.northwestern.edu 11

Alumni Relations Chair Role Responsibilities: Reach out to NU alumni Planning Alumni Wine & Dine and Alternative Careers Panels Past Contact: Garrett Lau glau@u.northwestern.edu Hussain Sangji hussainsangji@u.northwestern.edu Peter Rios peterdrios@gmail.com 12

Professional Development Role Responsibilities: Coordinate with panel speakers or professors to arrange workshops and talks Past Contact: Hussain Sangji hussainsangji@u.northwestern.edu Amr Elfar elfar@u.northwestern.edu 13

Transferable Skills Workshops Role Responsibilities: Develop & operate workshops Past Contact: Eric Earley ericearley@u.northwestern.edu

Other Important Information To contact all MGLC members… Listserv: NU-MGLC@listserv.it.northwestern.edu To contact individual MGLC members… Check website: http://mglc.mccormick.northwestern.edu/ When planning events… Check documentation in the MGLC Dropbox (contact Hussain/Shay for access) 15

To Do Before October 20th: Make sure you’re added to the MGLC listserv Email mglc@u.northwestern.edu Send headshot for website Start thinking about events you would be interested in leading or helping: Transferable Skills Workshops, Beer & Wings, Museum Outing, PFF, PFP, SICC, Grand Prix, Other? 16

Questions? 17