Master’s Student Association

Student representatives in the UW Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology program make up the Master’s Student Association and serve as student leaders and voices for their cohorts. They engage in community building with the department, help plan and organize social and informational events, and work with faculty and staff to advocate for student needs.

Student representatives give a student voice to department-wide initiatives on policy, curriculum, the student experience and other matters that arise. Our student representatives are consistently strong advocates for their peers and active participants in discussions.

What Student Representatives Do

Here are some examples of initiatives that student representatives work on:

• Act as liaisons between peers and department administration
• Attend open sessions of department faculty meetings
• Organize and run the student-led lunch and panel at new student orientation
• Oversee a student mentor program for incoming first-year speech-language pathology students
• Provide faculty and staff with student feedback about academic and clinical components of the program
• Help maintain graduate student lounge
• Represent speech-language pathology students on the Graduate and Professional Student Senate (GPSS)
• Facilitate student-led panel discussions to share clinical experiences