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The George Mason Review is a cross-disciplinary, undergraduate journal. Through the publication of exemplary, scholarly works, the GMR acts as a medium for discussion among us–the Mason undergraduate body–about scholarship. It seeks to re-vision scholarship by exploring and challenging the boundaries separating disciplines from each other, the humanities from the sciences, and academic from creative.

For example, the GMR aims to highlight the places where neuroscience, ethnography, and linguistics meet and strengthen each other.  Also, it actively solicits works that demonstrate the creativity of the sciences or the academic process of the humanities.  In doing so, the GMR hopes to represent the academic excellence of the Mason undergraduate body.

  • The GMR is a medium where your voice–through your works–is important and recognized as such.
  • The GMR allows you to contribute your voice to a discussion defining what scholarship looks like.
  • The GMR provides a place for you to be published both online and in print.
  • The GMR presents your creativity, academic excellence, and hard work to your peers, your faculty, and the whole Mason community.

Editor-in-Chief (Filled)

About 15 hours per week, with hours varying close to submission deadline and publication finalization time periods

Board Management

  • Set goals and vision for the year
  • Assign and approve clear, individual projects for each director
  • Work closely with each director on individual projects
  • Be present and actively involved in all team aspects
  • Recruit and interview new board members

Board Meetings

  • Schedule board meetings routinely (weekly or bi-weekly)
  • Create agendas for meetings
  • Keep meetings focused, on time, and productive

Submissions and Peer-Review Process

  • Attend peer-review meetings
  • Recruit and interview new peer-reviewers
  • Make final decisions on content and design for the current issue
  • Work with Assistant Editor and peer-reviewers to proofread submissions that will be published

Account Management

  • Act as one of the administrators for the GMR website, PBworks wiki, and Submittable
  • Manage and maintain an annual budget, and work with each director on maintaining his/her budget
  • Maintain the GMR email account, responding and forwarding as necessary

Public Relations

  • Network with key faculty and administrators in the Mason community
  • Maintain relationships with OSCAR, the WAC committee, and other scholarship-related organizations
  • Maintain a contact list of key organizations with whom we have built or want to build relationships

Promotions

  • Oversee social media content/presence
  • Evaluate and amend promotional efforts as they see fit

End-of-the-year Event

  • Speak as part of the panel discussion
  • Greet and network with guests (students and faculty)

Personal Duties/ Administrative Duties

  • Set goals and delegate tasks to the entire team on bi-weekly/weekly basis (setting the agenda for meetings)
  • Attend student leader meetings conducted by Student Media
  • Making sure student involvement and interest forms are completed by staff
  • Work with Marketing Director and Jason Hartsel on budget
  • Supervise social media content
  • Coordinate with Graphic Designer to ensure consistencies in the format of the publication (especially in relation to previous year’s)
  • Manage, review and track submissions
  • Correspond with submitters
  • Help create a professional development plan for PR’s
  • Represent GMR in a professional manner at all times both within the office, the larger University campus and throughout daily interactions

Assistant Editor (Filled)

About 10-12 hours/week. Hours vary throughout the year with most hours worked close to the submission deadline

Board Management

  • Set goals and vision for the year
  • Assign and approve clear, individual projects for each director
  • Work closely with each director on individual projects
  • Be present and actively involved in all team aspects
  • Recruit and interview new board members

Board Meetings

  • Read, know, and advise the board on matters conflicting with or relating to the GMR Constitution
  • Act as a recorder at board meetings

Submissions and Peer-Review Process

  • Recruit and interview new peer-reviewers
  • Facilitate training of peer reviews on content criteria, re-visioning scholarship, and writing comments
  • Screen each submission on Submittable for contact information and supplementary statement
  • Create peer-review teams and maintain a submission log from which you assign submissions to teams
  • Attend peer-review meetings
  • Review peer-reviewers’ comments on submissions
  • Work with editor-in-chief and peer-reviewers to proofread submissions that will be published

Account Management

  • Act as one of the administrators for the GMR website, PBworks wiki, and Submittable
  • Assist the Editor-in-Chief in maintaining the GMR email account

Document Management

  • Review, refine, and edit internal policies and procedures for consistency and style
  • Continually update the end-of-the-year report and other documents for the Office of Student Media
  • Work with Design/Web Director to scan, catalog, and upload past/current issues of GMR

End-of-the-year Event

  • Work with Marketing Director to choose and invite authors to speak
  • Greet and network with guests (students and faculty)
  • Update student contact list in coordination with Marketing Director

Personal/Administrative Duties

  • Assign submissions to Peer Reviewers
  • Help compile list to email professors
  • Meet with and help guide Peer Reviewers (help set-up schedule for Office Hour meetings if necessary)
  • Attend one office hour a week and contribute to weekly meetings through attendance and valuable input
  • Show new hires and Peer Reviewers on how to use PBworks and Wikilinks
  • Write Peer Reviewer guide
  • Help train incoming staff for next academic year
  • Manage, review and track submissions
  • Correspond with submitters
  • Help create a professional development plan for PR’s
  • Represent GMR in a professional manner at all times

 

Copy Editor (Recruiting)

About 8-10 hours/week. Hours vary throughout the year with most hours worked close to the submission deadline

Board Management

  • Work closely with each director on individual projects
  • Be present and actively involved in all team aspects
  • Oversee all email exchanges officially from GMR email accounts to ensure minimal editing and grammatical or branding errors

Board Meetings

  • Read, know, and advise the board on matters conflicting with or relating to the GMR Constitution

Submissions and Peer-Review Process

  • Attend peer-review meetings
  • Review peer-reviewers’ comments on submissions
  • Copy edit all final submissions before printing
  • Work with editor-in-chief and peer-reviewers to proofread submissions that will be published

Account Management

  • Act as one of the administrators for the GMR website, PBworks wiki, and Submittable
  • Assist the Editor-in-Chief in maintaining the GMR email account
  • Assist the Editor-in-Chief by managing and overseeing all social media content (Facebook and Twitter)

Document Management

  • Review, refine, and edit internal policies and procedures for consistency and style
  • Continually update the end-of-the-year report and other documents for the Office of Student Media
  • Work with Design/Web Director to scan, catalog, and upload past/current issues of GMR

End-of-the-year Event

  • Work with Marketing Director to choose and invite authors to speak
  • Greet and network with guests (students and faculty)

Personal/Administrative Duties

  • Review all input on submissions from Peer Reviewers
  • Attend one office hour a week and contribute to weekly meetings through attendance and valuable input
  • Write Peer Reviewer guide and maintain consistent branding on all GMR documents, constitution, and manuals
  • Help train incoming staff for next academic year
  • Review, edit and finalize edits on all chosen submissions for publication
  • Represent GMR in a professional manner at all times

 

Graphic Designer and Webmaster (Filled)

About 5-10 hours/week. Hours vary throughout the year with most hours worked close to publication deadline

Board Management

  • Work closely with each director on individual projects
  • Be present and actively involved in all team aspects
  • Oversee all website updates and graphic design content to be used for promotions/marketing and social media sites

Board Meetings

  • Read, know, and advise the board on matters conflicting with or relating to the GMR Constitution
  • Provide good input and advice on graphic design or web related elements of change throughout the year
  • Keep all websites updated after each meeting, when new content arises, when submission deadlines change or when submissions close

Marketing and Design

  • Ensure that all marketing materials, issue covers, and website pages, align with logo and color scheme
  • Design or choose artwork for the issue cover and/or inside pages
  • Create permanent GMR marketing materials (posters, promotion packets, banners, etc.)
  • Revisit previous marketing materials and revamp/redesign as necessary

Website Maintenance

  • Keep the website up to date and in line with the GMR brand
  • Work with the Editor-in-Chief to integrate websites of related organizations on GMR site
  • Work with the Marketing Director to facilitate online marketing
  • Work with Assistant Editor to scan, catalog, and upload past/current issues of GMR

End-of-the-year Event

  • Design print and e-vite invitations to faculty, administrators, and students
  • Design programs, name tags, and certificates of appreciation

Personal/Administrative Duties

  • Compile journal in its entirety and making sure all pages and content are consistent
  • Submissions flyers to be designed by them
  • Marketing material is to be designed by them
  • Communicate with all staff members while creating materials for GMR
  • Attend one office hour a week and contribute to weekly meetings through attendance and valuable input (may skip the meetings and office hours when not creating material, but must email updates to replace meeting attendance).
  • Represent GMR in a professional manner at all times