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.”
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.
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.”
