It's Blitz Week

This week is Student Government's annual Blitz Week where we put on events all week to reach out to the student body to better meet their needs.  Monday's event was Carnival with Cabinet.  The weather forced us to change our plans a little bit, but we still met with students outside of Library West and gave away a bunch of free food.  Yesterday was Snacks with Senate in Turlington Plaza.  Today is the SG Exec Meet and Greet in the Reitz Union Grand Ballroom Salon A.  I hope you will make a point to stop by as I love talking to students and learning how Student Government can best meet the needs of the student body.  Thursday is Agency day on the Plaza of the Americas, and Friday is SG's first outdoor movie night.

I want to give a special shout out and a BIG thank you to Action SG Chairwoman Sally Cohen and her Action SG Staff.  Sally has been working tirelessly to promote SG events and initiatives all year and is doing a fantastic job with Blitz Week.

Guest Post from SBVP Joselyn Rivas

For today's post I invited my running mate, Student Body Vice President Joselyn Rivas, to share everything that she has been working on.  I am honored to work with her and am impressed by everything that she has done!  Here's what she had to say:

During my term, I am honored to announce that all the platform ideas I ran on have been accomplished. I’d love to talk about a few new initiatives this year.

In order to establish accountability, the paperwork process behind Student Government Cabinet has been revolutionized in that we have successfully transferred all of our forms from a paper process to an online, eco-friendly format. Not only has this created a faster turnover in terms of event programming, but also may potentially become a flagship modernization of Gatorconnect that may be useful system to all student organizations.

A “Presidential Roundtable” is currently being developed to build and foster the lines of communication between Student Government and the student organizations we serve. Goals that will be achieved through a monthly meeting between student organization representatives and myself are transparency, collaborations and the prevention of over-programming.

Cabinet Monthly Leadership Trainings are commencing on October 3, 2013 where Cabinet members will come together once a month and perform an event that exemplifies a leadership pillar, such as community service. Our responsibility as student leaders is to actively impact our campus and community by giving back. 

Applications for Assistant Directors for various Cabinet Departments will be released in early October 2013. These may be found on https://www.sg.ufl.edu/Applications  

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me, Vice President Joselyn Rivas, at vicepresident@sg.ufl.edu or stop by my office hours!