A group of Skyline students along with a faculty member met together last week in the hopes of receiving recognized club status for a student organization.
On Thursday, September 22nd, 2011, Professor Jennifer Mair and students James Mudrick, Mike Jones, andZadoka Perez of Skyline College attended the first planning of a club meeting last week called VOICES, which stands for Voices of Inspired, Caring, Engaged, Students. The purpose of this organization would be to promote student success and unity, by engaging students to have their voices heard by becoming involved in their community.
To be considered a club at Skyline, it’s required that you have at least 10 members signed up to join. Despite having 12 members signed up for the initiated club, last semester, VOICES was set aside club status by theSOCC (Skyline Organization Club Council), a collaborated organization of the ASSC council (Associated Students of Skyline College) after proposing their mission statement to them last spring. The SOCC is a school wide club council which meets with all student club leaders and representatives every other week.
According to the SOCC, VOICES mission statement was looked upon as being too similar to what the ASSC council does, soSOCC had set the VOICES organization aside from gaining club status. This year, VOICES expects to change their mission statement along with recruiting many students in the hopes of applying for club status again next month.
James Mudrick, the expected club president of VOICES is a second year student at Skyline who hopes to drive momentum and encourage many students to join.
“I want to see change on Skyline campus,” Mudrick said. “I’d love to see students become involved and tackle some of the issues for junior college