Pam Byrnes (D-52nd District), chair of the Higher Education
Subcommittee, will be the keynote speaker Saturday, Sept.
29, as the newly created EMU Graduate Student Senate hosts
the inaugural Michigan Graduate Student Summit at the EMU
Student Center.
"EMU has about 5,000 graduate students and this summit
will provide an incredible opportunity to all of these
students to learn from our counterparts at 21 other Michigan
higher education institutions," said Donna Bobcean, a graduate
student and one of the organizers. "We hope to come away
from this summit with a clearer understanding of what it
means to be a graduate student in the state of Michigan."
The summit will feature discussions about graduate assistantships,
campus services for graduate students, challenges for graduate
student organizations and how to find funding sources.
"One of the main goals of the summit is to form a new
networking and lobbying group of graduate students across
the state, entitled: the Michigan Association of Graduate
Students, so we can continue to share our discoveries,
needs and concerns with each other and Lansing. We are
both proud and honored that the very first graduate summit
will be hosted by EMU," said Bobcean.
Twenty-two schools, including both private and public
schools, will attend the summit, according to Bobcean.
