Sometimes potential candidates are concerned about the time investment. Over the year, the time required would average 30 minutes a week. The duties are:

• Distribute and collect course evaluation forms (once per year per course) to ensure anonymity. (The time intensive compilation of the data is carried out by the support staff.)
• Attend departmental meetings (twice a year/ approximately 1 hour each)
• Attend GSA meetings - 1 per month (30 minutes includes lunch)
• Assist with setting up the Christmas party (approximately 1-2 hours)

Some reps organize social activities, but these are done by delegating and "volunteering" a friend or two to help.

A perspective based on information from prior Reps: Laura Bilenki and Ian Lewkowich.

• Organize Journal Club for each new academic year (ie. set out signup sheet first week.)
• Represent the Immunology Graduate Students when visiting professors visit the department
• Maintain Immunology graduate student departmental account/funds and apply twice a year for departmental allocation of funds from the Graduate Students Association
• Attend monthly half hour Health Sciences Centre Graduate Student Association meetings and report on departmental status on a monthly basis
• Take part in other GSA-associated committees as a result of being a part of HSCGSA (Health Sciences Centre Graduate Students Association) caucus. (This isn't required, but if your department is to stay on the map, you may want to join a few additional committees!)
• Act as a major point of contact for the president of GSA as well as the HSCGSA regarding your department when /if issues arise.
• Are meant to be a first contact point for students in your department to ask questions regarding any graduate student issues. They solve their own issues.
• Are responsible for distributing course and professor evaluations for all courses offered within the Department of Immunology each academic year and forming a committee to tabulate results, identify Teaching Award recipient, and purchasing personal and departmental plaque.