During their campaigns for executive council, president elect Andrew Hopper and vice president elect Rachel Cunningham announced several items to be introduced during their term on SGA executive council.
Next year, a public relations chair position is anticipated.
The chair will be “charged with the duty of keeping the campus informed of SGA activities,” according to Hopper.
This includes making convocation announcements, putting posters around campus, alerting the student body of SGA service opportunities and issues addressed in the meetings, said Cunningham.
Right now, the only established contact with the entire student body is the SGA board, she said.
The PR position hopes to be a method of raising concern within the student body.
“[We want] more discussion around campus rather than one fraction of campus deciding what is going on,” said Cunningham.
Like other executive council positions, the public relations chair is expected to attend all meetings. This chair would also monitor the promised online forum, said Cunningham.
In hopes to reduce mass e-mails yet initiate discussion, an online forum for discussion was introduced.
The forum is most likely to take the form of an e-mail list serve, according to Hopper, who is working with the IT department to make the forum a reality. Students will subscribe to lists with discussion topics of interest to them and limit the discussion to a portion of the student body.
Cunningham also hopes to get the Student Leadership Ambassador Program off to a better start.
SLAP began the end of last semester as an effort to show area schools’ student governments how a college’s student government works.
According to Cunningham, bad timing prevented the program from being widely successful.
Next year, Cunningham hopes to have better contact with schools so the program can begin when the semester does.