Top Five Reasons to become a Graduate Student Committee Member

1. Be part of making history education better

2. Represent your provincial/territorial region

3. Link with history educators across Canada

4. Blog about your ideas and share your research

5. Be part of Annual Regional Conferences in your region and other cool initiatives

A committee member must be a graduate student at a Canadian university and serve for a twelve month period. Membership may be renewed after this period upon review of your contributions over the previous year. Committee members maintain their status on a monthly basis by fulfilling the following responsibilities:

Teleconferencing with committee members on a regular basis

Blogging on THEN/HiER’s Teaching the Past blog on a regular basis

Acting as an ambassador for THEN/HiER and promoting THEN/HiER’s mandate and programming at conferences and similar events

Offering connections to a history education constituency, broadly defined: schools (elementary and secondary), museums, archives, heritage sites, etc.

Optional: Contributing to the organization and implementation of THEN/HiER events, such as THEN-HiER’s Annual Regional Conference or Approaching the Past events.