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The Associated
Student Government (ASG) discussed resources for student dropouts, among other
issues at Colorado Mesa University (CMU) during their meeting on Nov. 20.
ASG discussed resources necessary for students who plan to drop out. It was decided that advisors should guide students to change their majors rather than drop out of college. If students are intent on dropping out, Cronk added the possibility for mentors to offer ways to stay proactive.
“Any individual can come to career services and
take a test to see where you are at. To find something that is super beneficial
to you. If school is not your thing, then it’s not your thing. Career services
are very supportive of that and [they] will find something that you can achieve
in,” Student Trustee Amara Hobbs said.
Ultimately, ASG agreed there should be an
increase in awareness for resources provided by academic advisors, Integrated Resources
for Information and Solutions, Career Services and the counselors in Albers
Hall. These resources can also assist students who change their majors or take
longer than four years to graduate.
“It’s our job as student leaders to tell the people what we know, so they can tell the people they know,” Senator Hayley Wiedeman said. “If we are informed about the resources we have, then it’s more likely we are allowing other students to utilize those sources.”
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In other news,
three students were sworn in into the ASG senate. Last year, Hector Salas was
the teacher education senator and he resigned from that position at the
beginning of this semester. Salas came back during this meeting and asked to be
sworn in as the at large senator.
“I switched my major to Mass Communications, and
I was in my fourth year of English Education, which means I was going to do my
internship at Monument high school. Switching that was kind of a lot in terms
of handling it,” Salas said. “Going into the new department, I feel pretty
invigorated [to join the senate]. It is my senior year, of course I have those
types of priorities as well, but I would not run if I didn’t think I would have
the time,” Salas said.
After Salas explained his need to step back from ASG last semester, he was sworn in to be the at large senator. Nathan Harris, a Criminal Justice major and resident assistant, was inducted as the campus resident senator and Anela Cronk was sworn in as the biological sciences senator.
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Bill 19-21 was presented to ASG in support of
the Radiology Club attending the ACERT conference in 2020. The bill passed for
$1,569.
Senator BriAnne Marr and others agreed to create
and join a group that would work toward gaining early class registration for
“adult learners.” These “adult learners” were classified as “anyone
that is a non-traditional learner” by Marr.
President Beau Flores made an executive order to
add the budget commission to the constitution. The budget commission is chaired
by the chief financial officer and discusses bills proposed to the House of
Appropriations Committee a week prior to the House meeting.
“I think it is something that is detrimental to
us because a lot of the house members, or senate or even sometimes [the
executive branch] are not on the same page when it comes to a bill,” Flores
said. “I do think it will be a good change. The only reason why I am executive
ordering it is because it has to go into our constitution, and it has to be on
the ballot for elections.”