The Campus Activity Board is Texas Wesleyan’s newest student organization where individual students or student organizations can participate in funding and/or planning on-campus events.
What makes CAB different is that members are not obligated to be a part of a student organization to participate. They simply need to be interested in being a part of the on-campus social. CAB was responsible for last year’s Homecoming Tailgate and the Halloween party as well as a couple of on-campus dances. “I joined CAB last semester because I was new on campus and I wanted to be involved [with] an organization,” said Amaya Howard, a sophomore political science major. “I heard about some of their previous events and was interested.”
CAB will serve two functions, planning and carrying out at least one social event per month and managing a budget for student organizations to request funding for their own events. The budget used for CAB is funded by Student Life, according to Michael Chaney, CAB facilitator.
According to Chaney, who is also director of volunteerism and student organizations, student organizations or students who seek funding for an on-campus event that is open to the student body must fill a proposal form and attend a CAB meeting. The Board will then vote on whether or not the event will receive funding for their event and if so, how much.
A cap is set at $250. However, Chaney said, not every event will receive the maximum amount. By next fall, Chaney plans to make it mandatory for every student organization to attend the first meeting of every month in order to remain active and eligible to receive funding for future events. The only exception would be members of the United Greek Council (fraternities and sororities).
Chaney said he hopes that with CAB, organizations and students can help spread the word of events and stay connected with one another about future events while promoting student life. The group meets every Thursday at 3 p.m. in the Carter Conference Room.
CAB is still a work in progress and is looking to fill a seven-member board by next meeting. Currently, two co-chair positions are the only ones filled by Howard and Esther Kantai, former members of the now defunct Student Activity Council.
Howard said her main focus for the upcoming semester is to increase the amount of student interaction of activities on campus.“I am not a member of any other organizations so I am fully dedicated to making CAB events successful,” she said.
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