I am going to Texas this weekend and I am so excited about it. Every year, there is a conference called COSGA (Conference of Student Government Associations) that is held at Texas A&M University. The delegates of the conference are drawn from SGA members from 85% of all colleges/universities across the country. There are a variety of workshops to attend and they are all very informative and give great ideas about a variety of different topics that might be useful to bring back to your own school. There are also these really cool roundtable discussions that delegates are able to go to. Each roundtable has between 15-25 people. The roundtable groups are created by putting together delegates who represent schools of similar sizes but from different states. Honestly, it’s so neat to be able to meet people from all fifty states who are equally as passionate about SGA and are interested in comparing notes and sharing ideas. Many of the ideas that I have had for SGA for this year were taken from ideas that were sparked by things that I discussed with other COSGA delegates last year.
Our SGA here at Rowan got selected to do a workshop at COSGA this year, and it will be the first time that Rowan has ever presented there. The workshop that we are doing is called “How to Respond When Tragedy Strikes.” Our SGA decided that we wanted this to be the topic of our workshop because of the events that occurred at our school this year and how we, as SGA, chose to respond to them. This workshop relates directly back to COSGA, too. Last year when I attended COSGA, I went to a workshop that LaSalle University presented about how their school united its students and bettered its image after tragedy struck at their university a few years back. The ideas that were presented during that workshop are what I suggested that our SGA do when we were responding to our most recent tragedies this year and they were really helpful. Our SGA wants to give back to COSGA in a way, so that maybe our workshop will be just as beneficial to someone in the future as LaSalle’s workshop was for us.
