My Election Platform for UBC CHBE GSC Presidential Election

Dear friends,

My name is Jun. I am a 1st year PhD student in the Chemical & Biological Engineering department. I was a Master's student in the CHBE department from 2013 to 2014. I currently serve as the secretary of the CHBE Graduate Students Club and served as VP Communications in 2013/2014 committee.

I wish to announce my intention to be a candidate for president of the CHBE Graduate Students Club in the upcoming election on Monday, April 27, 2015 (Link of Event). I strongly hope to improve the structure of CHBE Graduate Students Club operations and to engage you (fellow grad students) in the organization of events.

My wish is to build a strong graduate student community in the CHBE department and to foster leadership among graduate students who will keep the graduate club activities running in the future.

My goals as the president of the CHBE Graduate Students Club:

• To create a guidebook, which will provide details on the roles of executive members, the annual budget and an agenda of events that will help steer the activities of the club; the guidebook shall be updated annually.
• To organize more social events, such as hiking trips and barbecues during the summer time, and special occasion events, such as Thanksgiving, Halloween and Christmas parties;
• To organize career and academic workshops throughout the winter/spring terms for personal development;
• To establish the weekly coffee break tradition as a forum for grad students to voice their concerns and feedback regarding their experience in the department;
• To help improve the working environment of the grad students by conveying their concerns to the department.

Qualifications:

• Have more than 2 years of experience working in the CHBE Graduate Students Club;
• Possess excellent administrative and organization skills;
• Served as the administrative coordinator for CHBE/APSC Research Day in 2013 and 2014;
• Am enthusiatic and reliable, as evident in the organization previous grad club events.

I hope that you will vote for me to build a better, more engaging community in the CHBE department.

Yours sincerely,
Jun Sian Lee