Graduate Student Council

GSC Statement of Purpose

The purpose of the AAAL Graduate Student Council is:

To support the professional development and personal well-being of AAAL graduate student members individually;
To build a strong community of AAAL graduate student members collectively; and
To conduct outreach and advocacy on behalf of AAAL graduate student members within and beyond the discipline of applied linguistics.

To accomplish these priorities, we provide:

Resources and opportunities for professional development, such as:
- Conference sessions
- Information about funding sources
- Venues for presenting and publishing research
Community-building initiatives, such as:
- Service opportunities within AAAL
- Access to AAAL member benefits
- Increasing inter-institution student-student connections, collaborations, and communications
- Peer mentoring
Outreach activities, such as:
- Advocating for AAAL Executive Committee action to benefit graduate student members
- Creating and maintaining connections to other graduate student organizations (e.g. LSA Committee on Student Issues and Concerns, AERA Graduate Student Council, National Association of Student Anthropologists)
- Promoting advanced graduate students as experts in the media