GSC Town Hall MeetingGraduate Student Clubs Organization & Funding

February 26th, 2013

What is the Point of This?

1. Club Structure

2. Student Initiative Funding

3. GSC Election timeline

4. Major Upcoming Events

“Journey Mapping” © 2011 Continuum.

Elements of a Journey Map

1. Steps. The points that make up a journey. 2. Touchpoints. The tangible or intangible

elements within a step. 3. Transitions. The spaces between steps and

touchpoints.

© 2011 Continuum.

Ideal Journey

The Current Model is Broken

Time

“E”

Lots of ideas & enthusiasm

Get Busy With Classes Etc.

“Can’t Get Funding”

Logistics Confusion

PrioritiesShift

Can’t Find Time

“Backcasting”

© 2011 Continuum.

Backcasting Model

© 2011 Continuum.

Elements of a Journey Map

1. Steps. The points that make up a journey. 2. Touchpoints. The tangible or intangible

elements within a step. 3. Transitions. The spaces between steps and

touchpoints.

3. “Big” Student Clubs1. “Start-Ups” 2. Student Clubs

• Long-running, well-established Clubs. “Guaranteed” Interest Year-to-Year

• Large Annual Events: Forums, Case Competitions, etc.

• “Reinvent the Wheel” every year.

• Student Interest Groups, Cultural Organizations, and Industry Verticals.

• Leadership Opportunities, Bring Value to MBA life.

• Have trouble finding an audience for events.

• “Ups-and-Downs” year-to-year

• Ideas and Initiatives that come up each year

• At the core of the Babson MBA!

• But the GSC fund hasn’t done anything to support these in the past

• Only “Start a Club” and that isn’t the answer.

• How to facilitate this?!

• Goal: make money available to all students, not just student clubs.

• Trial Run this year with the “Auxiliary Fund.”

• Kept a % of the Student Activities budget out of established clubs, and made available for any MBA Students to use for new initiatives.

• Formalizing this, and working with GSA and the next GSC to better support it moving forwards.

Seed Fund

Seed Fund

• Events on and off the Babson Campus for Graduate Students

• Supplemental funding to what is allocated to Student Clubs, but also for any individual(s) in any cohorts

• Oriented towards external events that help raise the Babson Brand

• Funded by various Offices & Centers around campus as a way to centralize and simplify funding requests

Submit Request viaLife@Babson Form

Fund

GSC Reviews & Responds

GSC Reviews & Responds

Rules & Regulations

Clarify, Simplify, Centralize

Support

Graduate Student Affairs

Faculty Advisor, Relevant Offices

Preventing Redundancy & Establishing Alliances

Alan GarciaDirector of International

Affairs

Category

Relevant Babson Office/Center

GSC Liaison to Category

“Umbrella” Club

Associated Student Clubs

Logical Organization of Similar Clubs

MBA Club Org Chart

Feedback?GSA & GSC are working to rebuild the system to support this for next year’s GSC & Clubs.

2013-2014 GSC Election

2013–2014 GSC Elections• All GSC Positions are up for re-election this

Spring.

• Student Clubs each have their own election timeline.

• Working to improve the transition of information from year-to-year, one of the biggest challenges with student leadership that changes every year

• Have the updated structure in place, and work with Kate Buckman & [TBD Asst. Director] to support next year’s Graduate Student Council

GSC Election Timeline

• March 4th: GSC Position Descriptions posted

• March 15th: Nominations due

• March 24th: Candidates Announced

• March 26th: Candidate Speeches

• March 26th–29th: Elections Open

• April 1st: GSC Elect Announced

• April-May: Transition/Training for GSC Elect

Major Upcoming Events

• MBA Club Events & Forums

• April 25th: Len’s Last Lecture

• April 26th: Spring Formal

• Week of May 13th: Grad Week

• Saturday, May 18th: Graduation!

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