The Consortium on Graduate Communication is in need of a new Treasurer! This position offers a wonderful opportunity to get involved in CGC leadership and help shape the organization’s future.
You won’t be alone!
Steve Simpson, our outgoing treasurer, will be available to mentor whoever steps into this vital role, one which is essential to CGC’s smooth operations and long-term stability. If you’re considering this position, please feel free to reach out to Steve at steve.simpson@nmt.edu. (CGC Secretary Rachael Cayley is also available to answer questions at rachael.cayley@utoronto.ca.)
We hope you’ll help us spread the word and consider tossing your hat (or a colleague’s!) into the ring. The extended deadline to submit nominations for Treasurer is Friday, February 20.
Description of the role:
The CGC Treasurer is responsible for maintaining the association’s bank account, making sure that all bills are paid. The Treasurer manages our annual budget, reporting on actual revenues and expenses to the full membership at our annual business meeting. The Treasurer attends all board meetings (approximately six per year) and is a member of the board’s Executive Committee. This position runs for four years (2026-2030).
For the detailed duties of the position as outlined in the CGC bylaws, see our previous post.
Voting for all open CGC Board positions will take place in early March.
Only CGC members are eligible to vote. If you need to renew your membership, make sure to do so by March 6. And if you’re not yet a member, this would be a great time to join! As a CGC member, you’ll not only be eligible to vote; you’ll also be joining a vibrant community of graduate communication specialists. CGC members can also serve on committees and access our entire website (including recordings of past SI Keynotes and a rich reservoir of online resources).
Please don’t hesitate to be in touch if you have any questions. We look forward to receiving your nominations!
Author: Eric Grunwald
Eric Grunwald is director of and lecturer in MIT’s English Language Studies (ELS) program. An instructor in ELS since 2012, he draws on a wide breadth of scholastic and vocational experiences to help students across the disciplines improve their academic and professional communication skills. As an undergraduate at Stanford University, studied math, physics, computer science, and astronomy before switching to the humanities and graduating with a degree in history. He began teaching English in Berlin, Germany, during the German Reunification, and then worked for several years in technology transfer at Stanford before obtaining his master’s in creative writing at Boston University. (See ericgrunwald.com.) After serving as managing editor at the literary journal Agni, he returned to teaching in 2007 and now teaches a variety of communication courses for bilingual MIT undergraduates and graduate students. He presents regularly at conferences in the U.S. and abroad and has received Institute grants to design an undergraduate creative writing course just for bilingual students and to design a website—writingprocess.mit.edu—to instruct students in a formal writing process. Grunwald became ELS director in July 2022 and serves on the CMS/W Writing Council. He is a member-at-large on the CGC Board and chairs the CGC Communications Committee.
