We also created a subcommittee entitled Organization Outreach. The purpose of this subcommittee was to act as a liaison between Student Government and campus organizations in an effort to increase publicity and student involvement across campus. This subcommittee was in charge of updating the “Organization of the Week” feature on the Student Life tab of the Student Government website. Since this subcommittee was working on a completely new project, we gave its members freedom to come up with other ideas for increasing organization awareness. The members of the subcommittee were particularly interested in creating an organization search engine on the Student Government website on which students could input their interests and then receive a list of student organizations that matched those interests. CollegiateLink provides a feature that is very similar to this, so subcommittee members provided feedback and ideas for improving this option during the CollegiateLink training session. In addition, we co-‐sponsored a grant writing workshop with Michelle Rugel, director of development for the Campus Y. This event gave students information on the different parts of grant proposals, how to make an event successful and sustainable, and how to write a successful grant proposal.
Student Life looks forward to taking Carolina Marketplace to a larger, more publicized level. Hogan will host Carolina Marketplace once a semester instead of once a year to allow a larger number of student organizations and businesses to participate. Because our committee meetings started later this year, we decided to host one Carolina Marketplace spanning over either two or three weeks second semester to allow for a more inclusive and successful event. There was a subcommittee dedicated to this project, and members of this subcommittee drafted e-‐mails to send out to campus organizations to gauge their interest in participating. However, after evaluating the project’s potential for success and its overall impact on the Carolina community, we decided not to host it. Carolina Marketplace is a good idea, but its overall purpose and mission need to be more clearly deBined in order for it to be successful. Hosting mini-‐Fall Fests has not been successful in recent years, and student organizations already publicize their own events in the Pit on a daily basis. We brainstormed ways to revamp the event for the future and thought that holding a showcase for organizations where they could display their projects and accomplishments would not only increase student awareness of different groups, but also recognize and celebrate the great work so many students groups do every year.
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