Issues with technology have prevented Prexie Club from scheduling regular meetings. It has resulted in a low attendance rate and communication failures.
Prexie Club is a monthly meeting run by Student Government Association where all student organization leaders meet.
“It’s basically the club of all the presidents,” said Alison Sloan, acting junior and SGA secretary of public relations. “Once a month, everyone meets, and everyone goes over info on their club’s activities. We discuss issues such as club events and bill funding. But this has not been happening recently because of communication problems.”
Last semester, Prexie Club meetings were on the first Wednesday of every month. Jordan Tarter, English senior and SGA president, said people did not show up because of Workshop Wednesday, an event for the devising classes that’s hosted by the theater and performance program.
“Workshop Wednesday is on the first Wednesday of every month, which is when our meetings were,” she said. “I wanted to be considerate of people’s time, so we decided to send out an email asking what time would work best. We decided to do the last week of every month, and let them vote on the date.”
Sloan said the issue is the SGA email not working.
“So basically, our Outlook calendar has had some difficulties,” she said. “I sent out an email through our SGA account at the beginning of January, asking what would be the best time for people to meet. No one responded, so I sent out another email. We scheduled a meeting, and then no one showed up. I finally found out that no one was actually getting them.”
Sloan said she sent out three emails to all Prexie Club members before deciding on a meeting time and date.
“It is not a matter of SGA being unorganized,” she said. “We’ve always had trouble with Outlook. I’ve called Campus Tech many times, but they have not been helpful.”
Tarter said the other reason people are not hearing about Prexie Club is because OrgSync is not always updated with the current leadership of the clubs, even though Levi Harrel, director of student engagement, sends SGA the list of current club staffs. OrgSync is an online portal with information for on-campus organizations and students.
“Because we do not know when club leadership changes, we cannot always contact them. We have accidentally contacted former presidents because it is not updated,” she said. “If there is one thing I would say, it is to tell people to update their OrgSync information, and to tell us if the leadership has changed.”
Sloan said she hopes these issues can be resolved because she does not want to resort to having to use her own email and technology to contact people.
“The SGA email can be dodgy,” she said. “I would use my Facebook or my own email to contact others, but it is unprofessional.”
Prexie Club meetings will be at 5:30 p.m. the last Wednesday of every month at the Student Lounge Center outside of the SGA offices.
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