Student Conference: Getting Things Done
by Lina Blas
Issue date: 3/1/10 Section: News
Student Conference, in their struggling efforts to increase the number of senators and proceed to answer students' never-ending concerns, enter the semester with initiatives to get things done. Surely, this was the same attitude last semester but how is this spring going to be any different? With expectations higher than ever before, they have little room for error.
Entering the New Year, there is much focus on changes that will enable students on campus to be aware of what their student government is doing. Introducing the Student Government Association (SGA), which is the merger of Student Conference and Campus Association for Student Activities (CASA), will be their first enterprise. "SGA will create unity to strengthen both groups and Lehman College as a whole," states Hyacinth Bouzalakos, Chair of Student Conference. "There will be less confusion as to who is who and who does what among the student body. They will actually know what the student government is and what we stand for."
Also being instituted is a Technology Lab in Gillet Hall for Mathematics and Natural Sciences students, which has been approved thanks to Charles L. Bearn's proposal. The goal of the Technology Lab is to provide a convenient lab, better accessible to students taking courses in buildings - such as the Apex, the T-3 building, and Gillet Hall - which are farther away from the IT Center in Carmen Hall.
Another initiative, which the Conference senators are trying to pursue, is to fix the DegreeWorks Audit, a program available to all students through the CUNY Portal. With the Degree Audit, students are able to locate their progress and how far they may be from accomplishing graduation requirements. However, many students are unable to access this program on their own and are forced to find aide through Academic Advisement.
Aside from working enduringly on the SGA, the Technology Lab, and the Degree Audit, Conference senators are organizing a formal "Meet the Senators" event. Here, students will be able to interact with the senators, ask questions, offer suggestions, and express their concerns about the state of our campus. A date for this event is currently being decided on.
Bouzalakos insists the ongoing situation with Conference's lack of results will be different this semester due to the surplus of senators. Their focus has officially shifted from trying to get more senators to actually getting things done. Student Conference has initiatives set; however, there is much progress to be made before change can truly be instituted.
Entering the New Year, there is much focus on changes that will enable students on campus to be aware of what their student government is doing. Introducing the Student Government Association (SGA), which is the merger of Student Conference and Campus Association for Student Activities (CASA), will be their first enterprise. "SGA will create unity to strengthen both groups and Lehman College as a whole," states Hyacinth Bouzalakos, Chair of Student Conference. "There will be less confusion as to who is who and who does what among the student body. They will actually know what the student government is and what we stand for."
Also being instituted is a Technology Lab in Gillet Hall for Mathematics and Natural Sciences students, which has been approved thanks to Charles L. Bearn's proposal. The goal of the Technology Lab is to provide a convenient lab, better accessible to students taking courses in buildings - such as the Apex, the T-3 building, and Gillet Hall - which are farther away from the IT Center in Carmen Hall.
Another initiative, which the Conference senators are trying to pursue, is to fix the DegreeWorks Audit, a program available to all students through the CUNY Portal. With the Degree Audit, students are able to locate their progress and how far they may be from accomplishing graduation requirements. However, many students are unable to access this program on their own and are forced to find aide through Academic Advisement.
Aside from working enduringly on the SGA, the Technology Lab, and the Degree Audit, Conference senators are organizing a formal "Meet the Senators" event. Here, students will be able to interact with the senators, ask questions, offer suggestions, and express their concerns about the state of our campus. A date for this event is currently being decided on.
Bouzalakos insists the ongoing situation with Conference's lack of results will be different this semester due to the surplus of senators. Their focus has officially shifted from trying to get more senators to actually getting things done. Student Conference has initiatives set; however, there is much progress to be made before change can truly be instituted.
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