Mission Statement

The mission of The Pennsylvania State University Graduate Student Association (GSA) is to represent and support the interests of the University’s current and future graduate student community by supporting scholarly activities and providing leadership, service, and social opportunities. GSA exists to enrich the experience of the University’s graduate students, all of whom are members of GSA. GSA accomplishes these objectives by flexibly responding to the changing collective needs of our primary constituents graduate students. GSA, recognized by the University as the graduate students’ central organization, is appropriately organized to accomplish the following unique functions:

• advocate the position of the graduate student body to other University and external constituencies;
• represent the broad interests of graduate students to the University’s academic units through a network of departmental delegates;
• furnish accessible, reliable, and valuable information, services, and programs to current and prospective graduate students;
• provide a forum for interaction among an extraordinarily diverse graduate student population;
• encourage and facilitate communication with and interaction among other graduate student organizations;
• seek funding to support organizational activities;
• promote a sense of community among graduate students and their families.