Group coordinator tasks

The group coordinator is responsible for running the groups. The group coordinator may not be a first year student. If you are a group coordinator you have the following responsibilities during each semester:

Before the first session of the semester

  1. Contact the group members (e.g., via the email address assigned to your group through the group selection web site) and the faculty mentor and find a day of the week and time that all group members are available.
  2. Enter the day of week and the time on the group web site (login -> choose correct semester -> group membership -> modify group).
  3. Reserve a room either through the program administrator or through a faculty member or her/his administrative assistant.
  4. Enter the room on the group web site (login -> choose correct semester -> group membership -> modify group).
  5. Have the person (administrative assistant or faculty member) who reserved the room send me an email to confirm the room and time.
  6. It is recommended to update the group description on the web site according to what the group members decide what they want to do.
  7. Make a timetable of who presents when if you choose to assign dates in your group.

Before each meeting of the group

  1. Inform all group members of any papers that are underlying the discussion at the meeting by email well before the meeting.
  2. Print an attendance record sheet for your group (login -> choose correct semester -> group membership -> sign-up sheet). Enter the session number on the sheet (the how manieth time in the semester the meeting is).
  3. It is recommended that the group description be updated to reflect a short description of what the next session will be about in case somebody from a different group is interested in coming (login -> choose correct semester -> group membership -> modify group). Note, that you can use any HTML command in the text, especially <A HREF="your_url_here">Text<A> in order to include links to other web pages of interest.

After each meeting of the group

  1. Sign the completed attendance record sheet.
  2. Send the completed attendance record sheet to Lakisha Mays.

08/31/2016, Ralf Bundschuh