DELICIA HOLDER
Special to The Leader
On Feb. 10, the Student Association held their semesterly Summit for the presidents and treasurers of every student-run organization and club on the Fredonia campus.
This year’s meeting, however, was not like previous years. This meeting went through the sexual assault issues on this campus and discussed how student leaders can make a difference within their organizations.
This semester, SA joined forces with Campus Life to create workshops for the presidents and the treasurers of these organizations.
After the sexual assault presentation, presidents and treasurers were split up to attend workshops designed for their specific roles.
According to SA Vice President Katie Battaglia, “The treasurers and presidents were broken up into two groups; treasurers received a financial presentation and presidents received a presentation and workshop on event planning, running an effective meeting, member retention and Blue News.”
SA and Campus Life organizers wanted to key into these two particular student leader groups to help ensure success of all of the student run organizations across campus from a leadership and financial standpoint.
Mark Suida, the director of campus life, offered a little more insight to the way these workshops went.
“Omicron Delta Kappa members presented experiential workshops, which focused on leading and engaging members. Omicron Delta Kappa, a leadership honor society, was brought to campus in the Fall of 2018 and was the vision of Dr. Cedric Howard. The ODK group is highly engaged and truly making an impact on teaching leadership.”
These workshops taught new skills and steps that leaders should take to ensure success with their clubs.
The summit had a turn out of around 350 student leaders and the feedback so far has been great.
“Due to the positive evaluations, this partnership will continue with new high-impact themes each year. I look forward to hearing how students have applied or incorporated this new information into club activities,” said Suida. “I’d like to thank workshop presenters and Dr. Susan McNamara, Rachel Martin and Kaitlin Battaglia for their commitment to this new initiative. Without the support of these three individuals, the collaboration would have not been possible.”