Presidential Platform
Jay Caughren and Tara Buchheit
"Working Together to Better the Coe Community"
Communication - Campus Life - Structuring Senate
I. Communication is Key: Strengthen Campus Connections
- Provide information as to how money is allocated on campus, including a breakdown of how a student's tuition is spent.
- Utilize campus media as a connection between Senate and the students
- Provide new means of communication to replace campus email, utilizing Facebook as a way to provide Senate meeting minutes as well as upcoming information
- Increase communication between Administration and Students
- Initiate communication with other student government programs with associated colleges through an exchange program
- Increase communication with organizations on campus, allow Senate to become more than a funding source
II. Home is Where the Heart is: Campus Environment
- Explore the possibility of using Coe Cash in other locations on and off campus
- Emphasize diversity as an asset of college life through creating a recognized, celebrated, Diversity Day
- Improve and expand Uptown District Discount Cards making them plastic
- Work to provide security cameras and better lighting in the Eby parking lot to strengthen security
- Establish a timeline and initiate installation of 24 hour key card access to academic buildings
- Ensure further progress of Environmental Club's campus recycling program
- Sponsor one campus event each month with an organization such as the NRHH and Student Senate's Organizational Fiesta
- Be an advocate for all residential concerns
III. Hit The Ground Running: Senate Representatives
- Create an anonymous outlet for student and senator feedback
- Establish a goal timeline set by the senate as a whole and reflect upon progress
- Provide an information session on parliamentary procedure to ensure the efficiency of Senate's meetings
- Number senator positions from each respective hall and re-arrange Senate seating at meetings so that representatives from each hall sit together and work as a team
- Be open and approachable, a positive presence on campus