Thursday, June 19, 2014

Summer Plunge Day of Service 2014 - July 19th

Join UF students and community members in serving the Gainesville community. Learn about service opportunities in Gainesville, meet new people, and experience YOUR community first-hand!

This year you have the opportunity to join a site of your choice, but hurry and register because spots are limited per site. Please be sure to read the descriptions of the tasks you might be doing, but please be flexible in that they might change closer to the date.

If you are a part of a group or a class and want to do service together, be sure to have each member of your team sign-up ASAP so you can be sure a site has enough spots for all of you. You MUST register individually.

The first 100 participants to show up the day of the event will receive a free t-shirt!

Tell your friends and spread the word! Register Today!

Graduate Student Council Seeking Volunteers for Fall 2014 Orientation

The UF Graduate Student Council (GSC) is seeking volunteers for New Graduate Student Orientation on Monday, August 18, 2014, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., to make it as welcoming an experience as possible for new members of the graduate student body at UF.

You can volunteer by:

(1) Joining the Planning Committee to help plan the GSC Information Session and other sessions at Orientation: This committee will meet several times over the summer, will participate in tour guide training and be present at Orientation.

(2) Serving as a tour guide: Tour guides have to train one training session (date and time to be announced) and be present at Orientation. This is an integral role, as it is a main point of contact with new graduate students and involves orienting them to key sites on campus, as well as sharing one's experiences and impressions about being a graduate student at UF.

(3) Stuffing welcome bags: New graduate students receive welcome bags that contain materials about settling in as a graduate student at UF. We need helping hands to put them together, at work sessions whose date and time are to be announced.

(4) Staffing the GSC Table: We need volunteers to staff the GSC Table at Orientation and distribute welcome bags and other information during the event.

If you wish to volunteer or have any questions, please e-mail Arun Pokhrel, Orientation/Fundraising Chair of the UF Graduate Student Council, at apokhrel@ufl.edu or arun.pokrel@gmail.com.