March 13, 2025
Dear UNL Community,
Venn Jemkur, GSA president
I have extended an invitation to the Graduate Student Assembly (GSA) to include a representative on our university’s Cabinet. Venn Jemkur, President of the Graduate Student Assembly, is representing graduate students in this role and attended her first meeting in February. Future GSA presidents or their designees will serve as the voice of this community at the leadership table moving forward.
This is a time in which higher education, including the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, faces significant challenges. We need all UNL’s brightest minds and voices to contribute to solutions. This includes making sure that the voices of graduate students are elevated and thoughtfully considered as decisions are made.
Venn joins Faculty Senate, Staff Senate, and ASUN representatives that were added to the Cabinet last fall. Those additions further strengthened shared governance and collaboration at UNL, and I anticipate the addition of Graduate Student Assembly will do so as well.
Thank you for all that you do for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Please help me welcome Venn and GSA to the Cabinet.
Rodney D. Bennett
Chancellor