Be a liaison for Crossroads at your school!
What is a liaison?
A liaison is a go-between. Crossroads needs students that can help spread the word about opportunities with Crossroads at your school.
What does a liaison do?
- Receive email from Crossroads every so often
- Forward email information to faculty and students at their school
- Print out and post around campus information from Crossroads:
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What kind of information?
- Crossroads' Calls for Articles
- Crossroads' Announcements about Open Staff Positions
- Crossroads' Searches for Student Guest Editors
- Crossroads' Announcements about a new issue release
What exactly is Crossroads?
Crossroads is a magazine created to give ACM student members a forum to discuss computing from the point of view of a student, and to provide an outlet for student publications. We operate as a not-for-profit organization, and seek only enough advertising and sponsorship to meet our costs. Crossroads is totally a volunteer organization, and none of the staff are paid. We are all student volunteers. To make Crossroads work, we need to reach all students to get the broadest possible selection of articles. Therefore, we need student liaisons at as many schools as possible to contact faculty and students about the possibility of submitting an article for publication on the desired topic. While the staff does try to reach as many faculty and students as possible with Calls for Articles, we could really use help that is located on each school campus. That is why we need liaisons. The liaisons help us to extend our network, and in the process will probably make contacts with faculty and students that will be valuable in the future. Liaisons are volunteers, but the benefits of volunteering include extending your own professional contacts as well as helping Crossroads.
I want to be a liaison!
Sign up to be a liaison here. You can also manage your subscription to the liaisons mailing list via the same page.
If you have any questions, please direct them to Crossroads at crossroads@acm.org.