Start Your Professional Journey Early!
Graduate students are busy with coursework and practicum/internship. However, it’s never too early to start building your leadership skills and growing your professional network!
On this page you will find information on what is happening with WSCA’s graduate students, upcoming event dates, and how you can get involved.
Graduate Student Membership Path
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Graduate Student First Year Membership $FREE
WSCA membership is FREE for “first-year” students pursuing a degree in school counseling.
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Graduate Student Membership (After First Year) $25
A Student Member must be engaged in a planned program of counselor education pursuing a degree as a counselor. A member may only hold status for a total of five years, or until they have graduated from their education program.
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Professional Membership $70
A Professional Member shall be licensed as a school counselor with a License in School Counseling from the DPI.
2022-2023 Graduate Student Representative Details
Grad Student Representatives will represent all School Counseling Graduate Students at your university in the WSCA Graduate Student Committee. Over the next two years with flexibility for one-year representatives, you will express student concerns, ideas, and suggestions at Graduate Student Committee meetings by voting and making decisions at the meetings with the best interest of your peers in mind.
Roles/Responsibilities include:
- Recruiting members from your program to join WSCA – 1st year membership is free for graduate students
- Promoting WSCA events and opportunities throughout the 21-22 school year
- Volunteering at WSCA’s conference
- Responding to emails sent out by Graduate Student Co-Directors
- Contributing to the quarterly newsletter
- Finding a replacement after your term is completed
- Keeping your program director in the loop
- Attending in-person or virtual meetings
- Attend Graduate Student Leadership Development Institute August 8, 2021
This is a great opportunity for students to learn about WSCA and be in a leadership role. Grad student reps are vital to the committee because you are the connection between WSCA, graduate students, and professors within your university program.
Will you consider becoming a graduate student representative? Contact gradstudent@wscaweb.org to express your interest!
Upcoming Events
Here you will find information about any of the graduate student’s upcoming events.
Click the hyperlinked title of each event to head to join the meeting!
Graduate Student Committee meetings open to all graduate students. All meetings will be on zoom.
Grad Student Calendar of Events
- November 27th, 2022: Graduate Student Committee Meeting virtually at 6:30 PM – Access the Meeting
- December – NO MEETING
- January 22nd, 2023: Graduate Student Committee Meeting virtually at 6:30 PM – Access the Meeting
- February 10th, 2023: WSCA’s National School Counseling Week Breakfast
- February 26th, 2023: Graduate Student Committee Meeting virtually at 6:30 PM – Access the Meeting
- March 26th, 2023: Graduate Student Committee Meeting virtually at 6:30 PM – Access the Meeting
- April 23rd, 2023: Graduate Student Committee Meeting virtually at 6:30 PM – Access the Meeting
- May 28th, 2023: Graduate Student Committee Meeting virtually at 6:30 PM – Access the Meeting
- June 25th, 2023: Graduate Student Committee Meeting virtually at 6:30 PM – Access the Meeting
Other Ways to Get Involved
WSCA Graduate Student Committee is looking for members to be on the Executive Committee as either a chairperson or a member. There are three different committees which include social media, newsletter editor, and social events. WSCA Graduate Student Committee would like to thank Chris Engstrom for volunteering to be the Social Media Chair. WSCA Graduate Student Committee is looking for chairpersons for the newsletter editor committee and the social events committee. If you are interested in one of these positions, please contact us at gradstudent@wscaweb.org. Below are the responsibilities within each committee.
Social Media
- Post on social media WSCA Graduate Students (Facebook-group page) – at least one post per week per media outlet
- Post specifically school counselor information/leadership information
- May have the opportunity to expand to other social media outlets
- Creates posts that followers can interact with
- Will only post WSCA approved professional developments
- Adhere to WSCA’s Marketing and Brand Identity Guidelines
Newsletter Editor
- Contacts and works with reps about writing their article based on the pre-arranged publishing schedule
- Review and edit articles before publishing dates
- Create and Edit the Graduate Student Newsletter four times a year in Google Doc.
- Canva is the tool you must use to design any content related to WSCA for social media, e-blasts, or WSCALink’s.
- Adhere to WSCA’s Marketing and Brand Identity Guidelines
Social Events
- Find and/or create events for graduate students across WI to participate in
- Create a grad student hangout at Conference
- Create a grad student social for after hours at Conference, Summer Academy and Fall Summit
- Take pictures at events and connect with exec board to share on social media and in newsletter
- Adhere to WSCA’s Marketing and Brand Identity Guidelines
