Save the Dates
McGeorge Women’s Caucus Live and Silent Auction – September 26th
McGeorge Lambda Sixth Annual Fall Spectacular and Silent Auction – October 18th
Building a McGeorge Community
One of the things I pledged to work on as SBA President was building a McGeorge community where second years, third years, and fourth years had more opportunities to meet with the incoming class to bring them into the McGeorge family.
To do this, the SBA Board took on a handful of initiatives and events over the summer. Those initiatives include things such as the Student Leaders program, direct involvement by myself and our Second Year Evening Representative Megan Donaghey with the Orientation Committee, the first SBA Incoming Students Welcome Mixer, and a lot of collaborative work between the SBA Board team and the McGeorge Administration.
I’d like to highlight one initiative that I think symbolizes what we as a student body working together can accomplish. To date the Student Leaders program has initiated 120 connections (64 incoming students with 56 upper division students). I would take up too much of this blog post to identify every single person that needs to be thanked to have made that happen, but it has been a huge team effort. I do want to personally thank Jess Melgar, Drew Weir, and Monika Troike for their assistance as part of the Student Leader Coordination team as they were instrumental in helping pair up the initial 40 incoming students with upper division students during the first week of school.
Changes to the SBA Blog, SBA Bylaws, and Policies
I am genuinely blessed with a dedicated SBA Board who are taking charge of different parts of the SBA Blog to make it a repository for everything SBA related. Below are examples of new changes that have come for this year:
As for our internal policies and bylaws, currently the SBA Board have proposed the following proposed changes to our bylaws. Under the rules, students are to submit comments to SBA Board members regarding their thoughts on the bylaw changes triggering a process where we respond to those comments. While the rules only require these proposals to be available for public comment for one week, the SBA Board and I agreed to hold them open until the first year class elect their day and evening representatives so that they may have their input before concluding the amendment process.
Once we have a full SBA Board, we will begin to discuss our SBA Election Code, which I believe is in need of reform to make the elections more accessible to as many students interested in competing for a leadership position within the SBA Board.
Next Steps for the Fall
Thanks to the hard work of our SBA Vice Presidents Lexi Howard and Shoeb Mohammed, on August 27th the SBA ratified our SBA Committee Chairs to expand our capacity to improve student life. The following individuals have been named Chairs of SBA Committees and I want to thank them for volunteering their time and energy:
Elections Committee
Co-Chairs
Sean Baird
Jennifer Trotter
Activities and Sports Committee
Chair
Connor Worden
Barristers Ball Committee
Chair
Jaclyn Zdanowski
Diversity Committee
Co-Chairs
Courtney Dowell
Riha Pathak
Sustainability/Garden Committee
Co-Chairs
Amelia Hicks
Bruce Pence
Wellness Committee
Chair
Caroline Soto
Career Development Committee
Co-Chairs
Amanda Kelly
Alexander Khan
Each of these SBA Committees will be busy at work and soon will have their own space on the SBA Blog. A major change that the SBA Board has agreed to in our June meeting is to have SBA Board members more involved in working with SBA Committees. That way, the SBA Board and its Committees are more in synch and collaborative in their work.
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