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About The Organisation
The International Association spun off International Club, which was formed in the mid-1950s as an organization to provide social programming for graduate and undergraduate international students.
Since the name change, which occurred a mere fifteen years ago, the International Association has centered its goals on the integration of the international and American communities at Duke.
The International Council was derived from the International Association in 1999, as international students became increasingly aware that a variety of their administrative needs, from holiday housing to liaisons between Duke's myriad cultural groups, were still sadly lacking.
In a dramatic effort to fill these gaps, then-senior Saverio Grazioli-Venier, past president of the International Association, joined forces with DSG to create an entity that would "act as an advisory board to DSG and as a lobbying organization representing international students in front of the administration."
Beginning in Fall 2001, the International Association and the International Council began to function as a conglomerate with the purpose of developing and promoting internationalism at Duke, inculcating the diverse cultures of international students in the Duke Community and spreading political and non-political awareness of issues affecting their daily lives.
Internationalism is a broad goal, and there are many different ways in which both of our organizations are tackling the issue.
About The Board
President
Represents the organization in meetings with other student leaders. Responsible for chairing meetings and coordinating the committees. Conceptualizes IA’s vision for the year and always had the big picture in mind while making decisions. Official head of IA, duties include – Recruiting new members, delegating duties to members, training each of the committees and communicating the overall vision to them. Meets regularly with IA advisor to discuss the status of the organization.
Executive Vice Presidents
The Executive VPs are the President's right hand persons and are expected to help the President with
everything and take over when the President is absent. Expected to ensure that all IA events run smoothly, and provide assistance to committees when required. The President and Executive VPs work together as a system of checks and balances to ensure that the vision of IA is not compromised and all committees work efficiently.
Chief Financial Officer
Organizes the IA budget, finds sources of funding, comes up with creative funding proposals. Submits receipts to OSAF for reimbursements and write grants and proposals for IA/IC's annual budget and for individual events. Sometimes presents to other organizations from which we are seeking funding from. Works with the secretary on the reports about each event IA organizes for the University and Cultural Fund.
Director of Development
Assists with the development and expansion of the organization and helps with the networking and fundraising aspects of IA. Assists the President with IA’s long term vision by working towards recruiting people to IA, thinking of future and long
term organizational strategy and can aiding the committees with brainstorming event strategies.
Secretary
Takes down the minutes from every IA meeting, and emails out to the board. Maintains a record of all IA events and collects event descriptions and photos from IA members, and organizes them for use on the IA website as well as for Multicultural and DSG funding purposes.
Webmaster
Entrusted with the responsibility of keeping the website updated, functional and looking good. Must coordinate with the Secretary to publish descriptions and photos of IA events online. The website must be updated atleast once a week.
Vice Presidents of Cultural Programming
Organizes FoodFest, Springternational, Global Stops and Cultural Showcases. Committee includes one event manager.
Vice Presidents of Social Programming
Works with Internal Affairs Coordinator to organize small, informal events: mixers, Duke Conversations, Hookah on the Quad, general parties. Also creates additional funding proposals.
Vice President of Academic Programming
Organizes Duke Conversations, Faculty Lunches, Speakers, Movie Screenings, also thinking of Philanthropy components to cultural events, includes one event manager.
Vice President of Policy & Advocacy: Internal
Responsible for directing IA’s broader effort to affect change on an institutional level at Duke. Involves setting priorities for key long-term goals and following through to improve Admissions, Financial Aid, Short-term Housing and programming support for International Cultural Groups. Additionally, facilitates the development of better mechanisms to gather statistics on Duke’s International Community and will help create the first-ever comprehensive assessment of the State of the International Community at Duke in the form of an International Strategic Report.
Vice Presidents of Policy & Advocacy: External
Responsible for coordinating the policy committee’s efforts to engage stakeholders not directly involved with the Duke International Community. Will grow and develop partnerships with DukeEngage, academic departments, area colleges (UNC, NCSU and NCCU) and coordinate with iHouse, iOffice and the IHOP program. This person will have the key responsibility of organizing and executing the International Ambassadors program to bolster global recruitment efforts.
Vice President of Alumni & Career Affairs
Directs efforts to strengthen and develop relationships with worldwide alumni and the Alumni Association. Organizes the International Alumni Reunion Party and creates a strategy to effectively track and engage Duke’s growing international alumni base. Additionally, has oversight of IA’s efforts to bolster international career services and opportunities for upperclassmen. This will involve working with the Career Center and the International Office to coordinate activities pertaining to jobs, internships and visas.
Vice President of Publicity & Marketing
In charge of publicity and design of all events. Responsible for the design and ordering of FoodFest and Springternational t-shirts. Formulates publicity strategies for Facebook, TheChronicle, IA listserv, Banners, Flyers. Aids the outreach team with developing ties to professors.