Welcome
The Graduate Student Council (GSC) serves graduate students in several important ways. Acting as a liaison between the administration and grad students at Michigan Tech, we advocate on students' behalf, and provide opportunities for personal and professional growth.
Perhaps GSC's most important functions is the enrichment of the intellectual and professional lives of grad students through GSC-sponsored Academic Events such as the Lunch-n-learn Lecture Series, the Research Symposium (Poster & Presentation Competition), and the annual Invited Guest Speaker Program. GSC also awards travel grants to selected students for attending or presenting at conferences. Each year GSC also selects an Exceptional Graduate Student Scholar, and an Exceptional Graduate Student Leader and honors them publicly.
GSC also organizes and sponsors a series of Social Events and assists with Orientation for incoming graduate students. These events provides opportunities for grad students from every department to encounter others not only from other academic disciplines, but other nations, cultures, ethnicities, religions, and lifestyles. By encouraging students to share their diverse personal histories and academic experiences, GSC helps focus and unify the voice of the graduate student community so that it can more accurately and powerfully represent students' interests to university administration.
Ultimately, building a strong graduate student community helps GSC to better advise the Dean of the Graduate School, the Provost, and the Board of Control about issues of interest to graduate students. With representatives from every graduate department on campus, and with liaisons to most major standing university committees, ranging in scope from Undergraduate Student Government (USG), the President’s Commission on Wellness, Healthcare, Student Affairs, University Judiciary, and the President’s Commission on Substance Abuse Prevention, the GSC plays an important role in shaping the graduate experience at Michigan Tech.