Senate and Staff Bios

                                 

Graduate Affairs Director

The Graduate Affairs Director is responsible for representing graduate students in the

Student Senate Executive Branch. I advocate for graduate students on a variety of Senate

and University committees and serve as the chair of the Graduate Student Advisory Board (GSAB), a group of interested graduate students from many departments that regularly meet in order to exchange information and discuss issues pertinent to the graduate student community. I also work with the graduate student senators and Graduate Student Organizations (GSOs) to pass legislation through Senate that enhances the academic and professional development of all students at KU.

 The Graduate Affairs Director position was created in 2010 after the Graduate and

Professional Association at KU decided to integrate itself into the Student Senate structure. Through this reorganization, student leaders sought to strengthen the relationships between undergraduate and graduate students that could benefit the university’s academic and social climate. This year I plan on working with groups across the university as we continue to develop these relationships and advocate for the needs and interests of all graduate students. In order to achieve these goals, I will draw on my own experiences as a graduate student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, where I am a third-year Ph.D. student and a Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA). I welcome all graduate students to contact me if they have questions or concerns that they would like to address to the Student Senate.  

Graduate Affairs Director

Jake Rapp

gsab@ku.edu