Student Organization Executive Board meeting designed to help students
Joelle Halon
Issue date: 11/23/09 Section: News
The first meeting of the Student Organization Executive Board was Friday, Nov. 20. The board formed to help student organizations in response to the growing number in the past few years.
Held by Gloria Roldan-Schieb, Debbie Bachman, Carol Wolfe and Leticia Toma, the purpose of the SOEB meeting was to address the needs of student organizations on campus.
Representatives from several student organizations attended the meeting in order to learn about emergency preparedness, community service opportunities and Co-Curricular Transcripts.
At the beginning of the meeting, Roldan-Schieb discussed community service opportunities available to student organizations. She suggested in addition to doing several charities throughout the year from requests by organizations, organizations should combine forces to service the community.
The suggestion came about when Roldan-Schieb mentioned the many different organizations often competing to hold drives at the same dates and times. By combining forces, more people are helped.
"Student organizations are helpful with community organization projects," Roldan-Schieb said. "We help with food and clothing drives for the region, not just specific areas."
On the Student Activities Web site, many community service opportunities are available. Organizations like Haven House and the Humane Society contacted Student Activities to find volunteers.
Wolfe mentioned student organization community projects can be listed on the Web site; they just need to contact the SA office.
In addition to the community service projects listed on the SA website, there is also the Junior Achievement program. The program mentors, tutors, and trains students through a variety of activities and may be of interest to those students who want to teach or improve their speaking skills. Students who participate in this program have the opportunity to visit other schools to help kids. Lafayette Elementary, located in Hammond, is part of the program.
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