Each IUP department offering a graduate program is required to establish a graduate committee and is urged, but not required, to form an association for its graduate students. On a universitywide basis, the Graduate Student Assembly (GSA) is the graduate students' organization.
The GSA comprises two representatives elected by the full-time and part-time graduate students of the department. It serves graduate students through voting representation on the Senate Graduate Committee and the University Senate by making recommendations about graduate student affairs to the Graduate School and Research and by working through other university committees and channels to improve the social, intellectual, and cultural life of graduate students. All graduate students are encouraged and welcome to participate in GSA.
