Henri Mingo - Public Relations Coordinator
What progress have you made on your Cabinet duties as outlined in the LeadMN bylaws?
I have been continuing my work to connect with community organizations to get clothing to students at upcoming conferences. I have also begun collecting clothing donations myself and using what I've learned through these community connections to begin a clothing closet at LeadMN. I finalized the logo for the 25th anniversary theme we decided on as a Cabinet this year. In addition I have been editing the outgoing letters and documents used to promote the Scholarship Gala to include this new theme logo. I have been attending the Technology Council Committee meetings including the Accessibility Committee and the Online Education Committee. I attended the monthly Chancellors meeting, and got to hear about the work they are doing. I prepared a lot this month for the October Student Leadership Summit, including my New Student Orientation which I ran two sessions of at the conference.
What have you done or what is your plan to get students more involved with LeadMN?
I helped organize and run our October Conference this past month and I was so glad to connect with student leaders from last year and new student leaders who were joining a LeadMN conference for the first time. It is amazing to hear all of the plans folks have for their campuses and I was glad to be able to connect with students about projects we can collaborate on. Through my New Student Orientation I hope students learned more about the structure of LeadMN and learned about how to get involved with the committees and councils we have available seats in.
Outline your biggest achievement this month?
I was so glad to meet with the community partner to learn more about making our Career Closet event a reality at future conferences.
Caledon Johnston - Treasurer
What progress have you made on your Cabinet duties as outlined in the LeadMN bylaws?
This month as Treasurer, I have been keeping in check with our representatives to ensure they have been getting paid for their work, and I have been attending the weekly cabinet meetings to stay up to date and report what I've been doing. The main work I've done this month was to prepare and facilitate the October GA Conference. It was a very great way to get to meet the students of our community, and I was very glad to attend. I was also able to present a verbal report unofficially after the GA of what I've done as treasurer this year so far. I had also gone to do a class rap at MSCS Winona. I also ran the Fiscal Committee Meeting at the end of the month. I was also able to coordinate a meeting with LeadMN and MSCS Winona's Senate to join their senate meeting. The last thing I did this month was attend the US Bank Stadium game for raising funds for the Emergency Grant Program. I also submitted this month's stipends for our reps and reimbursement requests.
What have you done or what is your plan to get students more involved with LeadMN?
I plan to keep in touch with those that I met at the GA conference, as well as reaching out more to campuses in the next couple months to get inactive campuses involved with LeadMN once again in the Southern region. I will also continue to advertise for the US Bank Stadium Volunteering opportunity.
Outline your biggest achievement this month?
My biggest achievement this month was being able to attend the October GA and successfully facilitate it as a Cabinet member. I was really glad to meet our students from all over the state, and also have a chance to develop my personal speaking skills as well as for public speaking. I want to continue to grow with this and being able to make more connections with all of our students from all the campuses we represent.
Sylvester Jah - Governing Council Representative
What progress have you made on your GC or PC duties as outlined in the LeadMN bylaws?
For the month of October, I attended the LeadMn Leadership summit. At the summit, I was able to network with others school from around Minnesota. I also attended a couple workshop to help improve in my role as a Governing Council representative. I attended a governing council/platform committee meeting and voted to elect an Alternate platform committee and governing council representative for the Metro West region.
What have you done or what is your plan to get students more involved with LeadMN?
For the month of October, I met with the Hennepin Tech (Brooklyn Park) student senate to help bridge a gap between HTC and LeadMn. At the meeting, I had the opportunity of assisting their senate with information regarding the upcoming Minnesota elections.
What is happening on the campuses in your region?
North Hennepin held a GOTV event partnering with Hennepin County elections and LeadMN called "Let's taco 'bout Voting". At the event, 126 students pledged to do their part on election day by going to their polling station and voting.
Deanna Sjolie - Student-at-Large Governing Council Representative
What progress have you made on your GC or PC duties as outlined in the LeadMN bylaws?
I have reached out to the other region representatives and gathered contact information. I am planning on attending the Northern Region meeting on November 12th,2022. I have attended the October conference and was able to learn more about campus events to help encourage growth in their campus senates/within their region, and events related to voter registration.
What have you done or what is your plan to get students more involved with LeadMN?
I have started to work on getting students more involved and working on ways to get students to the Northern Region by offering carpooling to regional meetings. As well as talking to students about the scholarships that are provided through LeadMN.
What is happening on the campuses in your region?
The Northwest campuses are working on events to promote voter turnout through various means such as carpooling to students to polling stations and providing an events such as "Donut forget to vote". I have heard from students across the state that to help with voter turnout they have promoted events for voter registration, carpooling to polling stations, and holding sessions to meet the candidates.
Danika Jones - Presidents' Group Chair
What progress have you made on your GC or PC duties as outlined in the LeadMN bylaws?
This month at the October Conference meeting we had a President's Group meeting. We were able to hear from all the different campuses that were present about their highlights and struggles.
What have you done or what is your plan to get students more involved with LeadMN?
I am planning to have a meeting either end of November or early December to go over some more things. I am working on getting all the campus presidents connected through team.
What is happening on the campuses in your region?
No a whole lot is happening, in the meeting that we had it was very evident that student involvement is a big problem for campuses across the state. We are going to take a look at that a bit more in the next meeting.
Chad Jacob - Governing Council Representative
What progress have you made on your GC or PC duties as outlined in the LeadMN bylaws?
Austin and Winona Minnesota State Colleges Southeast met in our regional meeting and discussed obstacles and opportunities related to LeadMN interaction in our region. Progress is now being made on key concerns related to food shelf support for their campuses. I am still trying to connect with Riverland Community College's student senate president but am waiting to hear back so that all regional campus Presidents may be in attendance.
What have you done or what is your plan to get students more involved with LeadMN?
In October, nine members of the RCTC Student Senate traveled up to Bloomington for the LeadMN Fall General Assembly. Several members of our senate expressed very positive learning experiences in both the sessions and understanding of the state structure of 2 year college representation in general through conversations with peers in other campuses. It was a wonderful time. Additionally, I have spoken to regional campuses encouraging toward future opportunities with LeadMN in general, notable the Spring General Assembly.
What is happening on the campuses in your region?
There is a model Legislature coming up mid-November at Winona State University that Chris from MSCS invited us at RCTC to attend with them. This will be an awesome opportunity to network with students from area colleges as well as state legislators who will be in attendance.
Kaleb Krupa - Platform Committee Representative
What progress have you made on your GC or PC duties as outlined in the LeadMN bylaws?
We have not Had PC meeting. Also I was just elected on 10/22/2022
What have you done or what is your plan to get students more involved with LeadMN?
We have promoted and encouraged students to apply for leadMN scholarships.
What is happening on the campuses in your region?
Some of the things that we that we have done are hosted a voters registration event called float your vote. Where we served roboteer floats and encouraged students to register to vote. The second thing we have done this year is a constitution day scavenger hunt. We are currently planning to have a food drive and the student senate is going to match the same number amount of items that was donated. I as the representative on the Platform committee for the west central region am planning on Visiting Alexandra Technical & community collage and St Cloud Technical & community collage to discuses any questions or concerns they have.
Kylie Borwege - Platform Committee Representative
What progress have you made on your GC or PC duties as outlined in the LeadMN bylaws?
I have not made much of a dent yet.
What have you done or what is your plan to get students more involved with LeadMN?
I think most campuses in the Northwest Region are relying mostly on word of mouth.
What is happening on the campuses in your region?
M State Fergus Falls is working on or has already upgraded their food pantry to include refrigeration. Northland East Grand Forks is also looking to either implement a food pantry or expand on a food pantry. Norhtwest Technical College is also looking at expanding their food pantry and making efforts to receive grants to help that effort of expansion. If I remember correctly, M State Wadena is hosting a GOTV event titled "Donut Forget to Vote" on their campus. Similarly, Northwest Technical College is hosting a GOTV event on voting day titled "Pizza Democracy (Piece of Democracy)." Unsure about M State Moorhead, M State Detroit Lakes and Northland Thief River Falls. I do believe an issue that is common among campuses in engagement.
Noelle Bauer - Platform Committee Representative
What progress have you made on your GC or PC duties as outlined in the LeadMN bylaws?
I have begun to assemble a list of contacts in Student Senate for Minneapolis College. I will be working with the PC of another region to assemble a list of their senate as well.
What have you done or what is your plan to get students more involved with LeadMN?
I have introduced LeadMN to leadership members of student clubs on campus. Not many people have heard of it, from what I have gathered.
What is happening on the campuses in your region?
Currently Minneapolis College is working on getting more Organics Recycling bins on campus.
John Runningen - Platform Committee Representative
What progress have you made on your GC or PC duties as outlined in the LeadMN bylaws?
I have begun recruiting positions that were not filled during the october conferance and got all PC members contact info to begin coordinating on goals and what they are accomplishing or hearing in their regions.
What have you done or what is your plan to get students more involved with LeadMN?
I will continue to work on uplifting students voices and helping them understand that LeadMN is a platform for them to get involved with amazing leadership opportunities.
What is happening on the campuses in your region?
The main focus right now is retention for our events and recruitment. Many of our campuses are being successful and peaking students' interest but not being successful at maintaining those same students.