“BUILDING YOURSELF AND YOUR ORGANIZATION” Submitted by Corinne Cronheim, 2014-2015 President RVCC’s Student Life Activities Planning (SLAP)
Officers from left to right: Tracey Green SGA Representative, Justin Fanders VP of Out-Reach, Chris Piel VP of Media, Ryan Villanueva Executive Vice President, Corinne Cronheim President, Tyler Collins SGA Representative, Andy Owusu VP of Information, Aishwarya Gondhi VP of Finance, and David Hauck Photographer/Videographer
Alaysha M. Walker Student Life Activities & Planning (SLAP) Board Advisor & Assistant Director of Student Life & Leadership at Raritan Valley Community College
College is a time where people explore and set out to find themselves. Along this journey, we make lifelong friends and memories while changing into the fine adults we are meant to become. Our organization needed to do just the same. It needed to grow, adapt, and find itself in a new light. The goal being to attract members, update its media-friendly face, and become the best it could be. In order to up our game, we had to up our name. Our logo needed to attract, our name needed to be catchy, and our group needed to transform into a closeknit family. Tell me something. What do YOU bring to YOUR organization? Each and every one of us has a voice. We have always 40 #APCACLT
Russell D Barefoot Director of Student Life & Leadership at Raritan Valley Community College
considered ourselves a group of people who came together to “program” fun stuff. Because of this, the few members of the organization were part of the problem. Our very own members did not know exactly what the organization could be and we diminished the group’s numbers by having a negative outlook which ruined our overall appearance. The Program Board was our name, but it did not have meaning to us. Now, it is our honor to share how we rebranded ourselves and became, not a group, but a team with a common interest of being the ones to “plan” the fun educational events around campus and successfully changed our name to Student Life Activities and Planning (SLAP) Board. We