Student Advisory Committee February 2017 Report

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Brothers,

Below you will find an outline of what took place during the February Student Advisory Committee meeting on February 12, 2017. Si Si Ni of the WD took notes for the meeting. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask. You can reach me at zac@kkpsi.org or the whole committee at StudentAdvisory@kkpsi.org.

Keep Striving!
Zac

—February SAC – Minutes 2/12/2017—

  • Introduction/Attendance
    • Midwest: none
    • North Central: Danielle Francis – Sec/Treas
    • Northeast: Shanon Rubin – VP for Membership
    • Southeast: Evan Schlameuss – VP for Programs
    • Southwest: George Ishii – President, Arjun Jeetan – MAL
    • Western: Si Si Ni – Sec/Treas
    • National Leadership: Jack Lee, Marco Krcatovich, Zac Humphrey, Jessica Lee (Curriculum Committee)
  • District Updates
    • Midwest
      • no update provided
    • North Central
      • Block presentation
        • More attendance from the norther school
      • Large number of people registered for convention
    • North East
      • 2/3 precinct meetings
      • Central – end of January
      • Northern precinct – next week
      • Both had 150-200 people attend
      • Registration is up on the website!
      • The workshops for convention are being planned beautifully.
    • Southeast
      • DLC was at Vanderbilt

        • Attendance was higher than usual
      • Website for SED convention is up!
      • New chapter in the district! Iota Nu – Alabama A & M

        • 75% of Iota Nu
    • Southwest
      • Convention planning is under way
      • Workshop season began yesterday
      • Accepting submissions to the district publications
    • Western
      • DLC – UCLA helped the district council gain a better understanding of the district to better-prepare WDC.

        • Attendance was higher than previous years.
      • Presidents are working efficiently in their planning for WDC.

        • Website and registration are both up!
      • The guidebook app used for DLC will make its reappearance at WDC to be a more efficient form of communication and cut down the costs by not printing excessively.
  • SAC Topic #1: Curriculum Development Update with Jessica Lee, member of the Curriculum Development Committee
    • Now onto 2nd round of pilot chapters
    • Currently using Ed Moto – interface similar to Facebook

      • Posts for chapters to access
      • A way to communicate to VP of pilot chapters
    • The committee met in January for updates.
    • Now beginning the refinement process

      • Feedback from Dos is really important
    • Committee will meet in April

      • Weekly feedback form on each lesson
      • Review feedback
      • Something different this time
    • After the meeting in April, committee will meet in June
    • Candidate guidebook & Teaching manual format
    • Finalized draft in June, then sent to committees for review at National Convention
    • One member from Curriculum will be present at every district convention
    • Goal: Ask pilot chapters to speak during the Curriculum presentation time block
    • Feedback

      • Chapters actually have a lot of control of the product (MEP)
      • Curriculum Committee development the content guideline (minimum)
      • Activities (in alignment with their policies) are up to chapter discretion.
      • Understand the values of Kappa Kappa Psi as an organization
      • Misconception:
    • At TMEA – Texas Southern might pilot
    • Q&A

      • Portfolio/project option
      • Memorizing information isn’t conducive
      • Rubric for discussion questions
      • Tests are not the best way to measure success.
      • Live the values of the organization
      • More MC responses
      • Activities
      • Should recruiting members that have the qualities of a members
      • Recommended votes after every degree
      • Learning disabilities/Dyslexia
      • Values based education
      • Rubric for vice presidents for evaluations
      • Think about the qualities you want to see in a Brother
      • How do we “measure” the success of a membership candidate without tangible data (i.e. tests/quizzes)?
      • Why do we need a test to be a standard?
    • Listen to Zac’s last two podcasts!

      • Upcoming podcast: Membership Selection

        • Recruit quality members and then think of the MCs as Actives in training rather than probationary members.
    • Email Jessica at curriculum@kkpsi.org or Jessica@kkpsi.org for any questions you may have
  • National Council Updates
    • Homework for March Meeting:

      • Reach out to chapters that piloted the National MEP
      • Find out what their concerns are
      • What they like/dislike
      • This helps prepare the National Curriculum committee prepare for National Convention
    • Chapter Leadership Finalists

      • Chapter leadership finalists will be announced on 2/13/17
      • There will be a press release on campus announcing
      • There are leadership finalists in every district!
      • Let these chapters know they’re outstanding!
      • There will be feedback in town hall to be thinking about in the future.
    • If you don’t know which national officers are attending your district conventions, ask Zac for the complete list.
    • (Shamelessly) Plug the Kappa Kappa Psi Presents podcasts
    • Awards:

      • The national officers will present national awards at district conventions.
      • These are awards that students can apply for.
    • Three Colonies

      • Jarvis Christian College
      • Old Dominion  
      • Cal Poly – Pomona
  • SAC Topic #2: Alumni Involvement: What does it currently look like and what would you like to see when you become an alumni?
    • Western District shared that there is very little encouraged alumni involvement and that there is actually some exclusion happening. Would love for more positive ways for alumni involvement.
    • The NED shared that they have a good relationship with their district alumni association. They are used for presenters at conventions and NEDAA presents some awards at convention, but they would like to see more awareness in general re: alumni events on a local level.
    • The SED shared similar experiences re: district alumni involvement but would like to see more alumni focused events similar to active workshops
    • One issue that SWD noted that chapters frequently face is getting updated alumni info from their universities. A lot of time there isn’t good coordination between the chapter and university due to privacy laws. They were wondering if this is something that the national level could help out with?
      • Zac will reach out to HQ and find out if there is more that the national org can do
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