In one year, the Student Government Association’s governing body completed over half of its numerous platform points.
Summit, this year’s executive board, fully completed 17 of its 25 proposed platform points, mostly completed five points and somewhat completed three points.
Fully complete:
- The connection of minority students with peer and faculty mentors
- Diversity commission
- The Cardinal Pride
- Small organizations with Office of Student Life and SGA
- BSU and Muncie communities
- Student Appreciation Day
- Counseling services
- Academic support initiatives
- Conversations on oppression
- Pothole of the Month
- Sexual assault education and awareness
- Diversity Day
- News from the Nest
- Cardinal Kitchen
- Leadership Fund
- Tailgate Central
- Lunch Board
Mostly complete:
- Environmental initiatives
- The safety of students on- and off-campus
- SGA and BSU students
- Affordable, healthy food options
- Cultural training initiative
Somewhat complete:
- The relationship with advisors
- Study locations on campus
- Engagement with international students
To SGA President James Wells, the most important platform point was sexual assault education and awareness, which was completed in the form of a summit of Indiana student leaders.
“This has been one of the first years that at least most of the student body presidents from around the state have been in contact with each other,” Wells said. “It’s not easy to get multiple schools together, but to at least come together, address it, talk about and share that information with each other was beyond my wildest dreams.”
And Wells has seen a change in the way Ball State addresses sexual assault — most recently, with the white ribbon initiative.
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If given more time, Wells said he would have strengthened SGA’s social media presence and communication apparatus.
“[SGA social media] is active and I hope students are paying attention to it,” Wells said. “I hope OPTiC really takes it to the next step and really [is] able to do more with it, especially after we created a communications team this year.”
However, it’s up to OPTiC whether to take on the unfinished platform points from this academic year.
“Even though we weren’t able to get some of the legislation through because we had a lot this year, a lot more proposed than last year, I hope [SGA president-elect Greg Carbó] is able to take what we started this year and continue to work on that,” Wells said.
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