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OK, perfect, well I'll reiterate hello, thank you all for joining us today.
Looks like a lot are from Colorado, but we have some from other states as well. So welcome. That's all over the time zone.
OK well I'm gonna start off by introducing myself. My name is JD. I am the student marketing coordinator for the slice office. I guess I'm not a student anymore 'cause I just graduated as a business major from CSU with my pronouns. Are she her and hers in my hometown?
Is love in Colorado? So I saw a few y'all are from in state which is cool and for those who are out of state welcome.
And my name is Jess steered all my pronouns. Are she heard hers and I serve as assistant director for student government. So if for any of you that are interested in like if you were in student council and continuing that student governance piece, that's who I work with. and I was one of those out of state students. I'm originally from Fargo, ND, so icy kaylan's from Minnesota here on the web, and R and so.
You're welcome to everyone. We hope that to keep you engaged throughout this process, it'll be probably about a 20 to 25 minute presentation, but will ask questions throughout, so will be utilizing the chat box, which JD will bring up in just a second and then at the end will allow some time for questions too. But the whole thing to be roughly about 30 minutes, so thank you for spending time out of your day with us today, so.
Alright, so we have a few warm up questions. Just type your answer in the chat box and will accept them as you enter them. So first one is what are a few activities you all have been involved with in the past. Like extracurricular out of school in school and then what are some things you were hoping to learn or gain from? This presentation will just give a few minutes for that.
Molly Van Breemen
04:03:09 PM
Poms, voice group
Peyton Wyman
04:03:21 PM
The National Art Honor Society, volunteering at my local Humane Society, eSports club
Kaylyn Schmidt
04:03:33 PM
volleyball, yearbook, coaching, internships for political campaigns, volunteer work, and i love being outside!!!!
And these, when you're thinking of activities, it could be that were directly school related, or if there were things that were outside of school. Or maybe what are just some of your interest. Do you really enjoy baking? I know was a really big thing right now. Maybe just reading on your own listening to podcasts so it doesn't have to be a direct like school sanctioned activity. It could just be really What is interesting, what you all are interested in.
Luna Li
04:03:52 PM
Theater, Lit Mag club, Stem club, volunteering at local animal shelter
Gabe Macklem
04:03:53 PM
Swimming, golfing, working out, etc.
You have some volleyball yearbook being outside. Good thing you're going to see us you than Apple, our society volunteering. That's cool. That's a big part of our office which will get into.
Katya Ostopowicz
04:03:54 PM
girls swim and dive, hiking, reading.
Active, definitely a lot of JD will go into this more in depth, but there's a lot of volunteer opportunities both on campus and off campus as well. the United Way is kind of you think of an umbrella organization and we have pamphlets that we give students. So if you're like I want to volunteer with animals, or I want to volunteer with kids, that gives you kind of the whole gamut even outside of what we provide in our office. So it's really cool if you want to kind of expand into the Fort Collins community as well.
Cool, so thank you for typing all that. Um, if you have any questions throughout the presentation, you can just save those for the end and first half the presentation. I'm going to just go over twice in general, just give you an idea of what we're all about. Some programs we offer, and then the second half of the presentation just is going to talk more about the president's leadership program. So just first getting into it. Here's just a few statistics.
There's over 500 a student organizations on campus or club summer academic summer outdoor summer. Just related to your major. I always mention how there was a squirrel watching club for a bit. There's also a quidditch club on campus so bunch of cool stuff and with that there's also 60 new organizations made every single year. So if out of the 500 student organizations there's not one that interests you or say or something in to something like maybe very niche or something like that, you can start your own.
It's also very common, uh, another. Another statistic is in 2018 we collected over 340,000 pounds of food or equivalent through cancer on the Oval White, which I'll talk about a little bit later, and we also do have a leadership minor available through our office, which has to do with the president's leadership program, which Jess will talk about.
All right, here's just some images bottom left, his project homeless, connect to the right of the eyes TJ of Student Leadership Awards, the top. We have alternative break presents leadership programs, yes unity. I understand that that doesn't really mean a lot to y'all now, 'cause of course you don't know what they are yet, but I just wanted to show you how involved it is.
Cool, so just dive right in, um, so under leadership we have first president's leadership program. I'll leave that to Jess and then we have real, which is Rams engaging in active leadership. This is just a great program for students who have maybe very busy schedules and want to get involved but don't have alot of time to do so. There one hour workshops which are offered twice a week throughout both semesters of the year, and all you have to do is attend 10 of them and then you receive a leadership certificate. So that's the Super great opportunity.
Next, we have campus step up, which is a social justice retreat. I actually attended this two years ago my sophomore year. It's over winter break, right before school starts in January, and it's you basically go to the mountains for a few days. Um, I when I went we went to the YMCA. There was about 50 to 100 students accompanying me. Um, basically just learn about social justice, privilege, identities, things like that. So this is great for individuals who want to learn more about social justice. But for those who may be, think that they know a lot about it or.
Just want to expand their awareness on it. This is also a great opportunity and it's free which is super cool.
Moving on to volunteer programs, we first have cancer on the elbow, which is what I talked about on that statistic slide. It was initially started by a student to make a canned food drive on campus about 30 years ago and then now it is turned into a something a lot bigger. We still collect food, but we, uh, push for monetary donations just a little bit more because Lermer County food bank can do a lot more with that. The first year that cans around the Oval existed, the canned foods actually only went around the Oval.
One time, or maybe not even halfway something like that, and then over the years as more people started to get involved, it became too labor intensive to put the cans around the Oval as it was being wrapped around so many times. But this is such a great opportunity just to give one day to volunteer your resources. Next, we have slice adaptive swim. This is offered twice a week. This is also a student forms program through slice. Also about 30 years old, maybe even closer to 40.
As a volunteer, you're partnered with a participant within the community who has a mental or physical disability and you just swim with them at the Epic Center, which is just a few miles away. It's not too far, and I think we do also offer transportation through this, which is great. It's not a swimming lesson or anything, it's mostly just having fun in the water. It does help improve motor functions, but it's mostly just to have fun. Some people do lab, some people just wait in the water, so that's another volunteer opportunity.
Next we have alternative break. This is a service learning trip over spring break. Although there is one international trip that's in December. Applications for this open in October. That's why I'm bringing it up now. Just because those do come up quick. But when I say service learning what you do as a group, you go to one of 15 different trips. Whichever one you sign up for, and then you go with your group of students and you work on a social justice issue or learn more about social justice problem in that area that you're working with.
Any partner with a government agency or a nonprofit in that area just to work with it. For example, I know one of my friends let it trip to Las Vegas last year who dealt with human trafficking. I had another friend who went to cows to work on Earth ships, which is just sustainable housing. So there's a bunch of different kinds of trips. I definitely recommend those. And then in October, that's when there's also breakout sessions just to learn more about it. Or sorry to be info sessions, and so, yeah, that's alternative break for you next.
Is Rams against hunger. So, um, this initiative is just to help combat food insecurity on campus. So this is an umbrella term for a few different programs we oversee. First, there's the mobile food pantry, the mobile food pantry offers is held once a month and it offers free groceries to students or community members experiencing food insecurity. You can actually receive up to 50 pounds of free food. All you need to do is just bring your bags and then just a CSU ID. Then we also have student giving day. Student giving day is where students with a meal swipe program at the dining Hall.
Can donate their unused guest meal swipes once a semester and so that whole day is just dedicated to collecting those meal swipes and taking them to a ram and need. And then Lastly another one I'll highlight is called it's just pocket banshees on campus, there's five different locations across campus where these exist. So say you're in between classes. You forgot to lunch or you don't have one or something like that. You just need something to get you through the day. You can stop in pocket pantry and just grab a granola bar, a Cup of Pudding.
Peanut butter there's all kinds of really good stuff, so that's another good resource, and you can either use this for yourself, or you can volunteer or both doesn't matter.
And then Lastly, is project homeless connect similar to cans around the Oval? This is a one day event. This however, is held in the spring and it's at the as as Lance's at homes is. That's how I say it just.
OK, there we go. I didn't want. I mispronounced it. It's at the Community Center in downtown Fort Collins and we actually provide transportation there. Which is cool. So as a volunteer, you're partnered with an individual or family experiencing homelessness in at the Community Center, Larimer County and local nonprofits and government agencies are donating their resources or products for that day for individuals to use, so that could be rapid housing. Getting your eyes checked, bus passes, counseling, all kinds of awesome stuff.
And we also do so that's a great one. I participated in that for a few years now, and that's probably one of my favorite slice programs.
Luna Li
04:12:06 PM
love to learn more about leadership, volunteering and internship opportunities!
A man with a volunteer programs or something to add is, as JD mentioned, there's a lot of different ways even within the programs themselves, to get involved, and so a question. If you want to just throw in the chat box, is that.
So a question that I have. She mentioned monetary contributions is something that one of my coworkers is just trying to distract it right now, but they take monetary contribution, so I'm curious for every $1 that the food bank raises, what do you all think that that can turn into to the amount of money that a food they can buy? So is it like $1 that they raise is $1 for food or $1 is Watt? So if you can just put in the chat box of what are your guess is about $1 can turn into.
But that question made sense, I hope.
OK, I'll do I get a one dollar $1 of money equals $10 of food. That's my guess.
But I'll just tell you, $1 turns into $5 of foods. If you have $5 that you're donating the Food Bank and then turn it into $25 for food. So a lot of times people think, oh, I'm just going to go out and directly by canned food to bring to the food bank. It's actually better too, if you're able to monetarily donate, because they can turn it into a larger donation.
Anyway, it's just a fun thing that I did not learn until like two years ago, so I wanted to share that with you all.
OK, so now we're on to involvement advising this program is about five to six years old. I wanna say, and the purpose of this is just for us as an office to do the research for you. So what I mean by that is you'll go online as a student on our website, which will show a little bit later. Um Macon involvement. Advising appointment. Fill out a Super Quick survey. Just about things we've done in the past. Things are interested in similar to the questions that we asked you at the beginning. Takes about 5 minutes to complete.
And then from the time you fill out that questionnaire to the time that you have your uhm appointment with an involvement advisor, they have done all the research for you possible. Uhm, so say I as an example. Let's say I wanna come ride a horse an I want to get into ice climbing, so maybe my involvement advisor Brooke was like, OK goes to the rec center website, sees that they have ice climbing lessons and then it says that there's a polo team on campus that I can look into. Just as an example.
So this is a great resource. We and then the involvement advisors give you an action.
Not forced to participate in anything, it's just for your resource and so you don't have to do all the work yourself.
Here's a screenshot of our website itslicedcolostate.edu. This is the home page. Then if you Scroll down just a little bit you'll see this. These are the three pillars I like to call him student evolvement and then community engagement. So if you just click discover under each of those, you can learn a little bit more about each program or like how to sign up for them. So if I said so say I was, you were interested in alternative break, you would just go under engagement. See alternative break, written there, click discover and then go to alternative break to learn a little bit more.
Jessica Dyrdahl
04:15:59 PM
Our website: slice.colostate.edu
Another great resource is Ramlink. It's ramlink colostate.edu. This is a great way to search what organizations on campus. As I mentioned prior, there's over 500 of them, which is kind of a lot to sift through, but there is a search bar you can type in keywords such as like snow, outdoor things like that. So all the organizations related to that will come up on the right hand side. There you can also categorise them on that left side under the search bar you can see there so you can like categorize them by academic.
Jessica Dyrdahl
04:16:07 PM
Ramlink website: ramlink.colostate.edu
Outdoor things like that fraternity and sorority. And then Lastly, I'll point out how there's an events tab on the top. Student organizations can post their meeting times or events on it, or on or off campus. So I would scroll through there. If you're bored. 19 seeing what things are coming up when school starts.
My last slide before I pass it on to Jellal. Tips to get involved. I had check out the slice website. Great way to just do some digging on your own. Bring a friend and be open to making new ones. Great way to meet friends especially in the dorms. As a first year or a transfer student is to get the people that you already know to come with you and then once you get there you'll definitely a lot more people that like club meetings or volunteering that are interested in the same things that you are.
Ask the slice friend desktop. I like to think that our slice reception desk knows literally everything and if they don't, they at least know someone who would know the answer to one of your questions.
Next is involving advising. Appointment doesn't hurt to at least go in there and try um just a great resource to like I said Before, I take the pressure off of you, put it on to us so it's less things for you to worry about.
Go on to Ramlink. A search through western organizations. You might want to join when campus starts.
Follow slice social media or handle is sly CSU on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat all lower. Case all one word uhm I am the marketing coordinator so it's kind of like me plugging it a little bit but it's really well run and we post a lot of different things about things coming up like deadlines. We also post things not related to slice and like as far as like other offices go or other campus events. So that's just a good way to keep updated about what's going on. And then my last piece of advice.
As a graduate is to just go, it's kind of scary, but some of my best memories at CSU were just doing things that I would never think that I would be interested in doing and just going and doing it anyways, even if you don't like it, at least it makes a good story. So yeah, thank you so much for listening to me. Welcome to CSU an I'm going to pass it off to just now.
Jadey Blasi
04:18:34 PM
plp.colostate.edu
Perfect thanks JD uhm So what I'm going to be talking about a little bit more in depth is the president's leadership program, which some of you may be have already been accepted into. The program are applied to the program, so how I want to start of- are, you know, maybe 7 minute conversation on PMP is if you could put in the chat. What does being a leader mean to you? Maybe? What are some of the traits that you associate with leadership or what are some of the actions that comes to mind when you think of leaders?
So when you hear that weird leader kind of just what comes to mind and put that in the chat.
Piper Vasquez
04:18:53 PM
Someone who is reliable.
Kaylyn Schmidt
04:19:02 PM
doing the right thing even if it's not easy
I will talk about that in a second. I do want to share please mission right here so we say to develop active informed civic leaders and we do this because our mission is not to develop one type of leader. It's really to help you see who you are as a person as an individual individual. What you bring, how that can work with other people and then how that can be further addressed into the community. So when you're thinking of the world leader, you might be thinking of.
Luna Li
04:19:23 PM
Someone who can inspire people to work with others and do the right thing
Peyton Wyman
04:19:24 PM
Someone who takes the initiative to help provide assistance and guide others
Jocelyn Chanonto
04:19:47 PM
good communicator
The words that we have, the optimism, the service to others. Passion, mindfulness, ferness, some of those things might be coming to mind and that's what we think are some of the traits that a leader in body is. So things that you all are sharing of someone who's reliable, who's dependable who does what they say they're going to do, doing the right thing. If it isn't easy, it's so true kaylin of oftentimes, especially if it's going against what the what everyone else is doing, even though it's the right thing can be very difficult. Luna, Yeah. Someone who is inspiring.
Hum can definitely help motivate people. We often talk about transformation. All leadership, which is about empowering others and not just telling people what to do. And yes, I'm going to take that initiative and help guide other so it's really. Leadership is not just about that one person, it's about that community and Johnson that definitely good communicators involved with that. So definitely continue to add-on if you would like.
So here's some different components that will go into a little bit more depth in the following slides that the presence leadership program a lot of people think of it as just a class where you take for credit, wouldn't really. There's so much more that is involved, so starting off with the courses, there is three years involved with the present leadership programs. You can see your one is called a call to lead one and two just means for the first semester and then the second semester. So fall in spring. So it is a full academic year. Leadership styles is a second year and then affective leadership is the third year.
Oftentimes we get a question. Well if I have to take three years of classes and then do a leadership minor, but I want to study abroad, how does that work? It's definitely doable. We've had a lot of students that have done that. You might just have to overlap, let's say the third year of affective leadership with your leadership minor, so there's definitely ways among we strongly encourage you to work with your academic advisor to figure out your schedule. So course work is very much a part of it, and it builds throughout each year. So the first year is very foundational. We talk a lot about values.
Identity services really is the focus of the first year. The second year you actually do a leadership internship experience, so you might be paired up, let's say at the boys and Girls Club or with a realtor in town, or maybe with a non CSC organization and you really dissected there. What is there leadership, philosophy, culture and often times actually get hired from those leadership internships and then the third year is really you all taking on additional role. So sometimes you actually get to facilitate in the classroom.
Which is pretty cool. I'm in a great experience.
Um, if you're wanting to do the leadership minor, and this would be JD mentioned at the very beginning. But leadership minor would just be like if you're minoring. Let's say in Spanish or chemistry, and so it doesn't matter what your major is. The Interdisciplinary Studies minor is what is referred to as an. There's two different ways to get it. So after you finish all of your coursework, you can either do public achievement, which is a national program going into high schools and working with students on service learning projects. So some of you may be.
Participated as a student. Or you could do research paper. Oftentimes, students actually have their papers published as well, which is really cool, but those are the two options to complete the minor.
Here's some other opportunities that not all students have to do, but it's really cool opportunity, so we have a global leadership experience. Two different things. One, we take students that are part of PMP scholars. So if you have certain scholarships, you can be a part of this group and we've taken students to China to Uganda and Rwanda. Looking to go to Honduras, and so that's one opportunity. Other international or global experiences. In total Santos, Mexico.
So it's with our CSU as a campus in Mexico, and so we've taken students down there to focus on water, which is very important Colorado. I know some of the Colorado residents will know and also it concern in that area of Mexico as well. Coker Coker. Circular leadership as well. So a lot of different ways to enhance your leaderships abilities with a lot of the programs that JD is already mentioned and then we have these things called PMP passion events so.
Last year we started a book club or will have this. I believe statements that we share out if any of you listen to NPR. So there's different ways to get involved outside the classroom that you don't have to be involved in, but just additional opportunities.
So this screen lays out the pathway to the leadership minor of completing the course work and then that additional part of the public achievement or the minor and then getting that minor at the end. Which is great if you're wanting to learn more about us. Pmp.colostate.edu is our website there. If you are interested in being empty for this fall I believe are still taking applications, but even if we have.
Reached our maximum capacity, you could still apply next year and still get the minor so it doesn't mean that you have to start your first year at CSU. There's other opportunities to get involved if you only want to be empty for a year, that's another option to you. Don't have to finish the minor just because you're in the program.
If you're wanting to follow since social media, we have an Instagram account so you can definitely follow us. We're not active in the summer time, but during the school year, PMP meets Tuesday evenings and so that we always do PMP Tuesdays on Instagram so you can follow us and go back to some of our previous post.
And that is all I have for PMP. So we just wanted to open it up. If you all have any questions directed directly for us that's JD mentioned. She just graduated. So she definitely has that student perspective in mind. Or anything else that we can answer. Just put it in the chat box right now.
And while you're maybe thinking of some questions, JD is there. Are there other things that we didn't share that was like officially part of the presentation that you would tips and tricks if you will that you would like to impart on the participants today?
Like slicer slice related.
Just as a being a college student, I would say.
Kaylyn Schmidt
04:26:10 PM
how time consuming are most of the organizations? I want to be able to commit to at least one but I want to make sure I can fit it into my schedule
I think that CSU seemed really intimidating to me, even though I only grew up 20 minutes away. Uhm, so just know that even though campus seems really big by the end or even by your second year, it's so comfortable. It feels like Super Small.
Now I'm gonna keep it short. Just 'cause we did just get a question how time consuming or most of the organizations I want to be able to commit to at least one. But I want to make sure I can fit it into my schedule. That's from Kaylin uhm, I can click on this one. So I have been involved in about 5 student organizations or so during my time at CSU, some of them never had a meeting and some of them met once a week. So it really does depend on which organization. I know it's like snow riders is one of the bigger ones that does like that.
Close up the mountain for skiing and snowboarding lot and they need a little bit more often, but also most most meetings don't really require you to go every single time, either. Um, so I think generally it's pretty easy to balance as long as you're not in like 1015 student words.
Yeah, one way to really figure out how often the groups meet at the beginning before fully committing is we have something called the involvement Expo in the fall and so so time were student groups are able to put out tables on the Plaza and so you can really like meet with them and connect with them and they often have their meeting times and so you can see what the commitment is then because some of our safe return in store.
Pretty lifelike, our Greek life groups might have multiple commitments that week, where, as Jay mentioned, snow writers or the squirrel watching cloud maybe is a little bit more casual and working together when it's able for you.
And you could always start your own club too, and then you definitely determined that the schedule. I think what I would recommend too is you can always when you come here, join one and like kind of figure out how it works with your schedule. And then we also do a spring involvement Expo 2. But really a lot of groups you can join them at anytime, so that's something also that would be available.
Any other questions we can answer?
And two, I guess a question. Sometimes we get with joining organizations.
Is a myth. There's like an application process or like a monetary requirement, and that awful depends. So of fraternity and sorority life. If you're joining one of the national organizations, sometimes they have national dues. And then if you're living in the house is the that will be a cost. But if you're joining like Engineers Without Borders or something like that, that might be no cost to join. But if they do a trip, sometimes they'll do trips broad and working with different communities.
Hum that maybe then has the additional monetary component of the travel so it can depend, but a lot of registered student groups are like, Hey, we did you have an interest in our organization? We launched really wants you to come and join and be a part of us, which that's why I want to reiterate that involvement in Vizing 'cause there is a lot of organizations, and so it's really great to meet with that involvement advisor 'cause they could help you. Kind of narrow down.
Different groups to join and connect with.
Other questions people might have.
I just gonna say one more thing 'cause I'm some of the things that were mentioned in activities were lots of like active or outside kind of activities. I guess I wanted to think of another word, but CSU, if you haven't been actually 2 Fort Collins itself, I know I had it been until I think when I came for orientation it's really has a great location that we're really close to the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. And so like if you're in Thai King and set that.
Far away there's a reservoir that you can go swimming. We have a lot of bike trails within the city and then very bike friendly campus. Alot of different like intermural sports to get involved with as well. And then also if you're like no, I don't want to do the outdoors. I want to be inside like there's all of that is available as well. So if you wanted to.
You know, join a book club or something like that on campus. There's lots of opportunities for that, but just the location of being in Colorado and having really great weather.
Most days out of the year uh or really lucky to be in this space.
So I think that does conclude our presentation will stay for a few minutes longer. Uhm, just if anyone has any last minute thought, but thank you so much for joining us and taking the time out of your day to listen. I almost said speak with but listen with so so much. Um, yeah.
Piper Vasquez
04:31:49 PM
Thank you guys!!! Have a lovely day!!
Luna Li
04:31:49 PM
Thank you!
Jocelyn, where do you live in Alaska? I used to live there. I used to live in Anchorage.
Oh, we might have just lost her.
Thank you Piper. Thank you Luna, I forgot it was on mute.
Cool, I think that, um, we just encourage you. If you do have questions that come up before you come to CSU, definitely reach out via our social media. Or once you get here, you can also connect with our office. But yeah, we hope that you all have a great day and go round.