Day 3: Student Affairs Team

I know that this is a little late, but it was a busy day both yesterday and today. The blog is about to be flooded with so many awesome pictures and stories from our adventure today on safari. I wanted to quickly get in before to recap what the student affairs team went through in day 3. We started off our meeting with Jennifer Winstead. Going to the 16th floor of the administration building never gets old because there is a beautiful view of the Indian Ocean and the nature reserve that the campus sits on. We spent the morning prepping for our presentation later on that day that involved meeting with seven different student societies to move them along in the pilot stages of the co-curricular record. The team worked to put the content together for the presentation to figure out how to best convey the information to the societies. Dr. Matt Wawrzynski led this session with Trace, Garrett, Mikey, and Bernell (that's me) helping to facilitate group activities and answer an questions that student may have had. Dr. Wawrzynski did an amazing job as always and the students seemed much more receptive to the process than we were expecting. Jennifer left the session felling very positive about the progress that we had made and optimistic as she moves forward with the pilot for the co-curricular record. After a lunch break, we met with Kim and Dee to have a conversation about best practices in women's leadership programs and community outreach programs. This sessions was more of an informal conversation where we shared our thoughts on the two topics based on research that we had done. Kim and Dee both seemed really pleased with the information that we had for them. At the end of this day of work, we spent some time together in reflection about the experiences that we have had so far. Since Matt and Ann had a dinner to attend, the student affairs team met up with the teaching and learning team to celebrate Heather's birthday. We went to a sushi restaurant and explored the Boardwalk area. We ended the night with an awesome water light show at the Boardwalk. It was a very eventful and very tiring day. Keep on the look out for our continued adventures!