Brothers,

Below you will find an outline of what took place during the September Student Advisory Committee meeting on September 11, 2016. Notes for the meeting were taken by Sarah Person from the MWD. 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

—September SAC – Minutes 9/11/2016—

• Introduction/Attendance

  • Midwest: Sarah Person – Secretary/Treasurer
  • Western: no representative
  • North Central: Abigail Johnson – VPM
  • North East: Helen Landers – HAAL & Shanon Rubin – VP
  • Southeast: Evan Schlameuss – VPP
  • Southwest: Arjun Jeetan – MAL

• District Updates

  • Midwest: District Day at CU Boulder – Mountain themed with focus being on goal setting and planning
  • Western: n/a
  • North Central: Work on planning and logistics for member education retreat!
  • North East: District planning, trying to set up KKPsi and TBS meeting times. District promoting pictures!
  • Southeast: Psi 85, bring the chapters along route 85. Planning for the year and prepping for an upcoming council meeting. Working on side projects and with district VP’s.
  • Southwest: Selected team for the Alto (Newsletter). Have more articles that aren’t convention themed. Working on new ‘Badges for brotherhood”. Little badges for the different chapters for making different tasks. Had to CLC’s – east and west. Looking to have it in the north and the south next year to have it more balanced. Working on speakers for conventions, schools for workshops, service event (Penny drive), etc. New colony at University of Texas El Paso

• SAC Topic #1: What do DOs/students want to get out of the SAC?

  • SAC Overview
    • Year-long SAC aims toward providing a way to get input and have a greater student voice
      • Email the SAC email with things that come up!
    • Shannon – Committee is most beneficial when we are all in contact with each other – also bring student voices up to the national level
    • Providing opportunities for them to question programs
      • Look into talking to Marco to try and get more of the programs broken down in ways that are easy to understand and apply for
      • Use social media more to get the news out there
        • Put out more announcements for “ask me questions” reminders
      • Sometimes saying “Come to me with your questions comments and concerns” is very vague and can be hard to get interaction that way

• National Council Updates

  • Jack has been working on getting committees set up for National Convention
    • Nominations committee will be set by the middle of October
    • Ritual Performance and Education Committee
      • This committee will…
        • Work on recommendations for ritual logistics
        • Provide clarifications and suggestions
        • Provide CMEP kinds of things that will tie into the national curriculum
      • Next National Council meeting on the 20th of Sept.
        • If you have any questions you would like to be brought up send them to Zac (zac@kkpsi.org)
      • National MEP Curriculum is being cleaned up
        • National Headquarters is being cleaned out to be rented
          • An exciting opportunity for revenue to the nationals
          • Doing a lot of upgrades to the building from the citiy!
      • Podcasts are live!
        • Weekly on Tuesday mornings
        • Listen to them! Spread the word!
        • Send Zac your genuine comments! Good or bad.
        • Zac wants to interview national award winners in the future. He is scheduling interviews with these winners.
          • One episode a semester to provide recognitions to winners
        • Wants to provide more workshop based episodes once the get to know the national leadership episodes are finished.
        • Arjun’s podcast suggestion: Podcast on each of the district conventions as they are having
          • See the differences between the districts
          • Zac wants to do ‘Story Corps’ like bits during convention
          • Also wants to do convention recaps
      • Life membership drive on September 23rd
        • Discounted life memberships – spread the word
        • Zac will send a flyer out to everyone on SAC to spread the word
      • National Student Awards
        • Spread awareness how these awards are picked
        • Looking to have student becoming a part of the selection process
        • Keep your eyes out for potentials of these awards
        • Have questions? Marco (VPP) would be happy to talk as well as any National Officers

• District Feedback/Concerns

  • Arjun – Lack of participation in student awards, specifically AEA scholarship and J. Lee Burke Student Achievement Award. As District officers try to spread the word about these awards so there is a bigger pool of applicants.
    • Bring more awareness – Zac will work with Robert at HQ to come up with flyers or things to spread on social media
    • Marco’s work putting it on the website is helpful – now it is on District Officers to spread the word
    • Moving forward look into ways to help the District Officers put the word out there

• SAC Topic #2: What would you like to see the Ritual Performance and Education Committee do?

  • Due to the sensitive nature of this topic, a complete account of this part of the conversation will not be shared here. If you would like to get a record of what was discussed, you can contact Zac Humphrey, VPSA (zac@kkpsi.org) for that information.
  • The first meeting of this new committee will take place on September 25th, 2016 at 8pm ET. If you have questions, comments, suggestions, or concerns, please send them to Zac.

• Announcements and Wrap up

  • Give the national council your perspective!
    • Nationals want your honest input both good and bad!
    • Don’t hesitate to bring your frustrations to Zac or others on the council
    • Everyone wants you to be having fun as a member of the district council, but if you have them bring your concerns to someone