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 interim EGU Co-Chair, Alyx Nelson-Turner at egucochairs@gmail.com.

Meeting Modality Addendum: Currently, EGU is working with the grad student body to determine how to make meeting spaces as open and accessible to all members as we continue to navigate modes of being together in late-stage pandemic; the first meeting (8/26) will be held via Zoom. Once a meeting modality has been officially voted on, the new modality will take effect the next meeting (9/9).

Fall 2022 Meeting Schedule

Our meetings will be from 4:00-5:00PM:

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https://arizona.zoom.us/j/85127486297

Password: 3NgGR@3202

8/26
9/9
9/23
10/7
10/21
11/4
11/18

EGU Officers - Fall 2022

Co-Chairs: Alyx Nelson-Turner (Interim) & Griff Zimmerman

EDI Co-Chairs: Thir Budhathoki & Caleb Kohs

Secretary: Leah Bowshier

WPC Representatives: Mucktadir Ahmed, Anh Dang, Sean Chadwick, Larissa Runyan, Désiré Tossoukpe, and Griffin Zimmerman

GPSC Representative: Kriti

Undergraduate English Curriculum Committee Representative: Laura Jacobs

Literature Graduate Curriculum Representative: David Seamans

First-Year Representative: [VACANT]

Social Chair: Josie Portz

Program Reps:

Creative Writing Representative: [VACANT]

Literature Representative: Matt Tuozzo

RCTE Representative: Charlie McMartin

EAL Representative: Eric Abin

SLAT Representative: Mariana Centanin Bertho and Ahn Dang

Current Initiatives

Collaborate with department and college administrators to make teaching loads comparable to peer institutions
Mediate issues related to graduate student labor and compensation
Ensure graduate students are safe from sexual discrimination and harassment
Mobilize with other student organizations across campus to advocate for university-wide issues such as childcare, healthcare, education costs, and graduate student wages
Ensure graduate student representation on all English program and departmental committees
Foster collegial relationships amongst lecturers and graduate students across all English programs
For more information about EGU's goals, please read our Best Practices document here