English Graduate Union
About the EGU
The English Graduate Union (EGU) is an organization that represents all English graduate students at the University of Arizona. Founded in 1991, EGU monitors graduate student workload, advocates for graduate student concerns and issues on many departmental and administrative levels, and mobilizes graduate students across the campus around important issues like health care, tuition remission, workload reduction, and childcare.
Membership in EGU is open to all English and English-affiliated graduate students. For more information, or if you have questions, please contact the current EGU Co-Chairs, Sovay Hansen and Martin Cardenas at egucochairs@gmail.com.
2020-2021 Schedule
Our meetings will be from 4-5PM:
- 8/28 (Social Hour)
- 9/11
- 9/25
- 10/9
- 10/23
- 11/06
- 11/20
- 12/4
Join Zoom Meeting
https://arizona.zoom.us/j/96754693926
Password: 363653
EGU Officers - AY 2020-2021
Co-Chairs: Sovay Hansen (Hannah Rego beginning in Spring) and Martin Cardenas
EDI Co-Chairs: Alyx (Maddie) Nelson-Turner and Claire Davis
Secretary: Claire Davis
WriPACA Representatives: Leah Bowshier, Kelli Lycke Martin, and Marisa Pesa
GPSC Representative: Kelli Lycke Martin
Undergraduate English Curriculum Committee Representative: Colleen Kenney
Graduate Literature Curriculum Committee Representative: Casey Kohs
First-Year Representative: Josie Portz
Social Chair: Ruixue Zhang
Program Reps:
Creative Writing Representative: Hannah Rego
Literature Representative: Casey Kohs
RCTE Representative: Analeigh Horton
EAL Representative: Eric Abin
SLAT Representative: Hongni Gou and Rachel Floyd
Meeting Minutes
Current Initiatives
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Collaborate with department and college administrators to make teaching loads comparable to peer institutions
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Mediate issues related to graduate student labor and compensation
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Ensure graduate students are safe from sexual discrimination and harassment
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Mobilize with other student organizations across campus to advocate for university-wide issues such as childcare, healthcare, education costs, and graduate student wages
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Ensure graduate student representation on all English program and departmental committees
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Foster collegial relationships amongst lecturers and graduate students across all English programs