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DSO Newsletter - January 2025

Anonymous - Friday, January 17, 2025
 Newsletter 

Welcome Back!


I hope you all had a great winter break! Hopefully you were able to relax and recharge and are ready to take on the Spring semester! 

As a reminder, I am here to help you and your DSO! Please reach out to me with any questions that you have!
 

 - Liz Roberts-Brown (she/her/hers)
Coordinator of Student Engagement and Leadership

Introducing our new Engagement Consultant! 

Evan Colburn
Undergraduate Student · 2026
Engagement Consultant

As some of you may know, Engagement Consultant, Louis, graduated this past semester. Evan will be taking over in helping me out! Emily is continuing with us this semester as well.
Engagement Consultants help me help you by helping with office work, involvement fairs, emails, etc. You will probably see them in my office if you stop by (Dorothy Day 174) and you may get some emails from them. 
 

Sustainability of items & storage

If your DSO is purchasing or making items and decorations, please be mindful of how they can be used in the future. You should be keeping all decorations and items (that can be kept) to be used in years to come. 

For storage of these items year to year, your first stop should be checking with your advisor if they have space for you to store things for your DSO. If they do not, you can reach out to me and we can see if we can find you space in our storage!

Event Help Opportunity

You should have recieved an email from me about assisting with World Day hosted by SGA.

This CAN count towards the event help DSO requirement. 
 

The SGA Budget Committee met last night to go through the budget requests that were submitted for this semester. 

We have begun to approve the submissions. However, there are some questions that we have and you will be getting an email from me soon for clarification. Others we are also waiting on amounts from Catering.

NOTE: An approval for the budget request does not equal an approval for the event/event date. You will still need to submit the event on Bark for approval prior to advertising.

You can still submit budget requests for this semester. However, please remember requests have to be submitted at least 15 school days prior to the event or activity that you need the funding for. Additionally, we may not be able to approve for everything due to it being after the priority date and funding being allocated elsewhere.

January 23rd - Winter Involvement Fest
3:00-5:30

February 3rd - All DSO Meeting *POSTPONED
4:30-5:30 
*At least one officer required to attend
 
MLK Day of Service
See message below from Community Service & Advocacy

Celebrate the Life and Work of Martin Luther King, Jr. on Monday, March 20th!

From 12-1pm stop by the Gambet Lobby to learn about MLK Jr and be entered for a raffle prize.

3:00-4:30pm - Volunteer in the Dorothy Day Kender to help make sandwiches and fleece blankets for our local shelter. RSVP here.

5:00-5:45pm - MLK Dinner & Discussion in the DUC Faculty Dining Room. RSVP here.
 

Bark Tip! 

Did you know you can check in people to your events and meetings?

You can check in attendees to your events and meetings and then have a list of who attended! you can do this in a few different ways:

  1. On a laptop - type in their name or they scan a QR code
  2. Printed QR code
  3. On the CampusGroups App

For options 1 & 2, you can watch this video here for instructions (start at 29:00).
For option 3, go into your event on the CampusGroups App, click on the "check in attendees" button. You can then eithe type in their name or scan their App QR code by clicking on the QR code in the top right.