VP for Communications

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VP for Communications
8th University Student Senate

• By Stephanie Correale

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FIRST OF ALL

• YAAA!!
• Welcome
• Congrats
• We are all ready to get started and we hope you
  are too!

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VP for Communications

• Continue to create the buzz on campus about
  what Senate is/does.
• Cafe Days
• Senate Scoop
• Bigger events
• Community Day

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Cafe Days

• Once a month
• Surveys
• Student input
• Visible presence on campus
• Answer questions
• Hand out freebees
• Show students who their Senators are

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Improve Cafe Days

• Big Themes
• January 24th
• February 14th
• March 27th
• April 22nd
• These dates are in your calendars and are
  mandatory events YA!!!
• There are only four there is no reason you should
  not be there. Make other arrangements now ?
• Order more Tshirts for the newbies
• Tablecloths
• More professional
• Freebees

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Senate Scoop

• Students who are interested in what changes are
  happening on campus are emailed periodically
• Target audience more efficiently

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Goals

• Students
• Senate
• Students and Senate

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Student to Student

• Hall Government
• Fall 2008
• Really easy way of creating hype about Senate and
  SJU as a whole.
• Elections in each hall or suite under supervision
  of RA
• Hall representatives are encouraged to come to
  Senate and voice the opinions of their hallmates
• Not RAs, it will be a peer
• Not 30 people coming to us with
  complaints/suggestions it will be their
  representative
• Poster in each section
• Update with updates
• Such as
• Aramarks Valentines Day dinner will be .
• Security will be extending escort hours
• We are now taking the information to the students
  instead of them coming to us
• Students more pumped to have their voices heard
• ? MORE PEOPLE RUNNING FOR SENATE!!!

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SENATE

• Keep the Senate knowledgeable
• VP Castanza
• Committee Chairs present biweekly
• Dining Services and Security weekly
• Our peers look to us to be informed
• During meeting type it up updates so when the
  reps leave for their Residence Buildings they can
  update their sections poster ?

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Student to Senate

• Sweatshirts
• Walking advertisement
• AIM Account
• Answer students question immediately and get
  direct input
• Senatevoice_at_aim.com
• Website
• Ask a question button
• So other students can see the conversations/
  questions being answered
• Advertise website to freshmen through RAs
  (poster)
• WSJR
• Weekly show with updates
• Interested in being the host?

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Student to Senate

• Montly Newsletter
• 7th Senate Communications Clan were all in
  agreement that this needed to be done
• A way to keep the students informed
• The Voice
• (See Microsoft Publisher)

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Upcoming Events

• Cafe Days .. MANDATORY
• Februrary 21st
• Stealth Dinner with.
• FATHER LANNON
• Wanted it before the BOT meeting
• Opportunity to let students see TRL and that he
  cares about what they have to say
• Not regular dinner, not everyone

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Conclusion

• Show students who we are and what we do
• Keep them informed
• Let their voice be heard
• And most importantly.

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• THE HAWK WILL NEVER DIE!

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