Executive

= 2014-2015 Executive | Executive Bios | 2013-2014 Executive | Roles and Responsibilities =



2014-2015 GES Executive

 * President:** Sherrie-Lynn J. Doğurga
 * Vice-President:** Joanie Herron
 * Secretary:** Kendra Haines
 * Treasurer:** Cynthia Wallace-Casey
 * Distance Ed Representative:** Marguerite McNeill
 * Webmaster:** Katharine Bartlett


 * Graduate Student Association (GSA) Councillors:** Sherrie-Lynn J. Doğurga, Sarah King, Joanne LeBlanc-Haley, Joanie Herron, Darren Hanscomb, Kendra Haines, TBA


 * Graduate Academic Unit (GAU) Representative:** Darren Hanscomb


 * Faculty Council Representative:** Sherrie-Lynn J. Doğurga


 * Graduate Studies Committee (GSC) Representative:** Brian Beaton


 * Social Representatives:** TBA



Executive Bios
From Newfoundland, Sherrie-Lynn Doğurga M.Ed. is a Canadian-Turkish educator working with third wave feminism and new materiality in schools. Sherrie worked in a Turkish national school as a teacher/administrator for fifteen years. Her M.Ed. in Critical Studies at the University of New Brunswick examined maternal thought and practice in Canada and Turkey. Sherrie has recently returned to Canada to pursue a PhD in critical feminist leadership studies at UNB.
 * Sherrie-Lynn Doğurga**

Joanie Herron is a first-year PhD student focusing on non-formalized teacher leaders and how they affect student learning. Joanie is an English Language Arts educator who adds critical theory to the content of her courses, as well as teaching Women, Media, and Culture, a Grade 12 elective. She is a New Brunswicker who has "been away" and returned, and who took many years off to raise her 2 now-adult sons.
 * Joanie Herron**

From Fredericton, NB, Kendra Haines is a specialist teacher in educational technology, business studies and ESL. Kendra taught media and career studies, ESL in the Inuit community of Ikpiarjuk, Nunavut and grade 5/6 in the Kaska-Dene community of Ross River, Yukon. She returned to UNB in 2013 to continue her graduate studies in instructional design and adult education.
 * Kendra Haines**

Living in Nunavut, Marguerite McNeill is a graduate student in Adult Education. She is currently working as an educator for Nunavut Arctic College in curriculum development. Maggie has also lived in Tucson, Arizona and was a Career & Technology Educator for Desertview High School. As several of her courses at both undergrad and graduate level have been made possible through distance education, Maggie is pleased and honored to serve the Graduate Education Society Executive (2014-2015) as Distance Ed Representative.
 * Marguerite McNeill**

From Ontario, Katharine Bartlett has worked in Nunavut for the past fourteen years at both the school and system levels. Her M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction at the University of New Brunswick examined how the Nunavut educational philosophy of continuous progress could be applied to the teaching of reading in grades four-to-six. She began her Ph.D. in 2013/2014, but has returned to the Department this year to work on the implementation of a new literacy and assessment initiative. Her doctoral work is focused on gaining a better understanding of how Nunavut teachers understand and utilize a paired approach to reading instruction.
 * Katharine Bartlett**

From Fredericton, New Brunswick, Darren Hanscomb is starting his MED in Curriculum Studies while simultaneously completing his DAUS. He holds two Journeymen’s certificates as a Licensed Automotive Technician, and Journeyman Cook. He also has a BED from UNB (Skilled Trades and Technology Education 06). Darren has been a teacher at Fredericton High School for 8 years, now on educational leave for one year. Married with two sons 11 and 6, he is a proud tradesman whose goals include advancing and enriching skilled trades or “life skills” education programming.
 * Darren Hanscomb**

A proud Newfoundlander, Sarah King is a third-year PhD student in the Faculty of Education whose research looks at how universities in Atlantic Canada educate for civic engagement. She is also a part-time instructor at (and graduate of!) UNB's Renaissance College, an interdisciplinary leadership studies program. Her M.Ed. research, at York University looked at how narratives of female Holocaust resisters could be used in the pursuit of anti-bullying curricula. The theme of community is central to Sarah's work, and as such she is dedicated to contributing to the communities of which she is a part. She also serves on the Graduate Student Association at UNB as the Vice-President, Societies & Events, and volunteers with the Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society.
 * Sarah King**

In the spring of 2013, Brian moved from northwestern Ontario to begin his graduate work at the Faculty of Education in Critical Studies at UNB in the 2013 summer term. Brian’s research concerns the use of information and communication technologies in remote First Nations. He continues to collaborate with the First Nation tribal council (Keewaytinook Okimakanak) where he worked for 20 years before moving to Fredericton. He plans to complete and defend his master’s thesis in the winter term of 2015 and begin his doctoral work in the spring.
 * Brian Beaton**



2013-2014 GES Executive

 * President:** Sarah King
 * Vice-President:** Sherrie-Lynn Dogurga
 * Treasurer:** Cynthia Wallace-Casey
 * Secretary:** Katharine Bartlett
 * Webmaster:** Brian Beaton



Roles and Responsibilities

 * President:** Facilitating society meetings, facilitating communication between the society and other bodies, coordinating social events and workshops, scheduling meetings and events, delegating society member responsibilities, recruiting to fill society positions, receiving and documenting reports from student committee representatives, managing the GES email account, overseeing the approval of GES Professional Development Awards, developing and supporting GES initiatives.


 * Vice-President:** Supporting the President in fulfilling his/her duties, taking an active role in facilitating society events, regularly checking society email and responding to student inquiries, filling in for society member roles where needed.


 * Secretary:** Taking society meeting minutes, drafting society emails, note-taking at GES workshops and seminars.


 * Treasurer:** Collecting and depositing society allocation cheques from the GSA (Graduate Student Association) to the campus Bank of Montreal, receiving GES bank statements and keeping an up-to-date record of the society bank balance, balancing the society chequebook, writing cheques for society expenditures, filing receipts for society records.


 * Graduate Student Association (GSA) Councillors:** The GSA represents graduate students UNB-wide, and discusses issues relating to graduate students across campus. Education is required to have three representatives (councillors) at meetings, and our funding is tied to our attendance at these meetings so they are obviously very important! Councillors are required to attend one meeting a month (usually on Wednesday evenings) and meetings last between one and two hours. They are also responsible for collecting our funding cheques and bringing them to the GES Treasurer or President, as well as updating the GES Executive on discussions arising at GSA meetings.


 * Graduate Academic Unit (GAU) Representative:** The GES provides one representative to sit on this committee. Their responsibility is to represent graduate student interests in discussions of issues related to graduate programs in Education. The committee meets approximately once a month, and meetings run approximately an hour and a half. The GES Representative is responsible for reporting relevant discussion points from the meeting to the GES Executive.

One Position Available
 * Faculty Council Representative**


 * Graduate Studies Committee (GSC) Representative:** A sub-committee of the GAU, the GSC provides a smaller venue for more in-depth discussion of issues raised at GAU meetings. The GSC seeks student and faculty feedback on changes to policies, procedures, etc. as needed, and the GES Representative will represent graduate student interests in those discussions. The committee meets approximately every six weeks, for approximately two hours. The GES Representative is responsible for reporting relevant discussion points from meetings and seeking student feedback through the GES Executive.

One Position Available
 * Social Representatives:**

//The expected time commitment for most positions is no more than 3-4 hours per month.//

//If you are interested in serving on any of these committees, please contact us at gese@unb.ca//