As you may have seen, I am the student currently serving in the consultant role. This is mostly a matter of semantics since I am not able to commit the same amount of time as other students, but they have chosen to acknowledge my involvement.

I appreciate your comment that the titles are potentially detrimental in the sense that an outside observer may not make sense to people external to the group. However, I don't understand how the mere existence of a title implies we don't know what it means. In any case, the group is having a meeting this evening and will certainly raise these concerns.

My suggestion is screw the made up titles. Specially once like Consultant. Is this person a consultant from the group to other groups, i.e., do they provide services for compensation whether they are inkind or cash? Or are they a 3rd party providing services to the group? Having seen this same nonsense from a variety of groups, all it does is make me think you don't actually know what is required by any of these roles.

Finally, as one of the students holding one of said titles, they are mostly irrelevant. But administration likes titles, so we do have to acquiesce to get formalities out of the way. And it does help add a little structure to a group still really in its infancy.