Changes

* To improve communications between CC and student groups and ensure that all students groups know that CC is dedicated to supporting them, interested in advocating on their behalf and determined to address issues important to them, CC created the CC liaison program in the Spring of 2008 and continued the program in the Fall of 2008. Through this program, all CC members were assigned to be a liaison to a few large student groups. Each liaison is responsible to making contact with the groups he or she represents and determining the best way to foster good communication and effective collaboration between CC and the group the liaison is responsible for representing. Suggested methods of contact include meeting with the group’s leadership a few times a semester or attending the group’s meetings a few times a semester.

* To improve CC’s transparency and ensure that all CC members are accountable to the students they represent, CC instituted a public voting record in the Spring of 2008 and continued the voting record into the Fall of 2008. Under the old practice, the CC Secretary recorded and reported in the minutes the aggregate results of each CC vote. Now, for each official vote, the CC Secretary records how each CC individual CC representative voted. That information will be made available and distributed to the campus at the end of the full year officers’ terms (i.e. right before Spring elections).