ASG Seeks Historian

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The Associated Student Government invites applications for a historian for the spring 2014 academic semester.  Interested students may pick up applications for the ASG historian in the office of student activities or download from asg.uark.edu/get-involved-join-us/applications. Any currently enrolled University of Arkansas student who meets co-curricular eligibility requirements may apply.

The historian will serve five office hours a week and earn a semester stipend of $250. The ideal candidate for this position will enjoy history, research, and discovering the rich legacy of ASG’s 93 years of history.

Per ASG Code, Section 11, Title IV, which can be found at asg.uark.edu/aboutasg/asg-constitution, the duties of the ASG historian include:

“The ASG Historian, in conjunction with the ASG Advisor, shall create and complete goals and deadlines that include:

1. Documenting ASG successes, failures, and other all other ASG business before 2009, including times when ASG was sanctioned or not present on our campus. Projects are to be documented shall further include, but are not limited to:

a. ASG Senate Legislation

b. Office of Financial Affairs Board Meeting Minutes

c. ASG Executive meeting minutes

d. ASG Judicial case facts, decisions, and meeting minutes

e. Program Allocations Board minutes, and

f. Reports concerning the successes and failures of things that were sponsored in part, or wholly by ASG including its current and former programs.

g. All other ASG meeting minutes (of branches, committees, and all other meetings resulting in student-led decision making; or sanctions).

The ASG Historian shall place significant focus on interviews with former ASG Executive officers, and professionals that are also alumni of ASG. Focus shall also be placed on themes including segregation, discrimination, and litigation concerning the organization.

Projects shall be completed at least two (2) weeks before Dead Day and the ASG Historian will give a report to the ASG President at the end of each academic year, at least one (1) day before Dead Day.

Projects will be transcribed, during the summer, into formal documents to include: one hardbound book that shall include: dialogue, pictures, and an attached audio component to be at least thirty (30) minutes long.

Projects shall be fully transcribed and published at by the 11^th Day of Classes of each Fall Semester.

The ASG Historian shall be given a budget of $50 to be shared equally from legislative operating budget for the acquiring and burning of the audio CD and the publishing of the hardbound book that shall be published at PMCS at the University of Arkansas- Fayetteville, unless a less expensive option is found.”

The application will remain open until filled. Contact the ASG advisor, Rudy Trejo, at rgtrejo@uark.edu if you have further questions.