RodCouncil: April 3rd, 2013
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Bonding
o Need help with planning camping trip
 What activities should be done?
Networking
o Annual report
 Rodman bios
 Overall stats (average number of majors, minors, GPA)
 Extracurriculars, research, map, internships, Rodsems, events
 Post-grad plans
 Stories, experiences
 Elzey blurb
 Donations?
o LinkedIn
 Send out survey for bragging purposes
 Set up office hours to brag or suggest
Elections
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Bonding
o Job
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Anything that facilitate bonding among the Rodman community; easy or hard
depending on how hard you want that to happy
 They would meet once a week to come up with ideas
 May or may not be organizing Rodman dinner
Challenges
 Getting people excited for the event
 Resources: drivers and money
 Finding time
Suggestions
 You have to be excited; it’s contagious
 Utilize your representatives
 Involving Elzey is an instant plus
 Know who to contact to get people to come
 One to two weekends at Rodman events, so expect it
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Networking
o Job
 Alumni homecoming reunion in the fall
 Established connections for alumni
 LinkedIn page
 Companies to send stuff to Rodmans
o Challenges
 Sometimes hard to figure out next step
o Suggestions
 Come up with lots of ideas so if you finish something you can get to the next
thing
Communications
o Job
 Nexus
 Maintaining website
o Challenges
 Roles of positions? What exactly are they?
 Opening lines of communications with other organizations?
 Annual report…got started later than would have liked
 Uses of website?
o Suggestions
 Split between webmaster and everything else
Rodsems
o Job
 Changing it up…getting them up earlier
 Student-taught seminars
o Challenges
 Feedback from students
 Attendance policy
o Suggestions
 Thank-you gift
First-Year Reps
o Job
 Communicating with the class
 Flyer for incoming students
o Challenges
 Apathy on the part of the class; no time
o Suggestions
 Get people to come to RodCouncil meetings
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Advising
o Job
 Make advising assignments earlier
 Create a document for major recommendations
 Days on the Lawn: one Rodman-focused day
o Challenges
 Unknowns with DOTL: getting people to volunteer, students coming
 Recruitment issues
 Thank-you email for volunteers
 Advising usefulness?
o Suggestions
 Relies on first-year reps to spread info
Treasurer
o Job
 Knows general costs of events
 Scholarships first-year research grant
o Suggestions
 Cut spending on Rodsems
Presidential Suggestions
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Involved in spurts
Be close with the person you run with
LOTS OF EMAILING
People you choose are the most important
Having a great group makes jobs easier (yay)
Be excited! (also yay)
Coordination and seeing the big picture
Takes a lot of effort to do day-to-day or week-to-week
Great way to give back