A Welcome from the 2012 BACCHUS Student Trustees

Welcome to a new semester and an exciting new year within BACCHUS. We hope that everything is going well in your schools as well as in your peer education groups. We want everyone to get super excited for your area conferences this Spring!

We would like to introduce ourselves. Courtney is a student at Bowling Green State University. She is studying Social Work and Education and served on the Student Advisory Committee last year, representing Area 7. Sheldon is a student at Frostburg State University. He is studying Law and Society and Political Science and served on the Student Advisory Committee representing Area 12. We are proud and honored to be serving as your Student Trustees this year.

Here is some information about what the Student Advisory Committee does for affiliates in their areas. In January, we met with the SAC’s that were elected at General Assembly in November. The SAC’s are really excited about working with you and we would like to help you understand how they can help assist your peer education groups. The SAC representatives for each area are the liaisons between the national office and all the affiliates in your area. If you need ideas for programming to implement in your group or if you any questions regarding any upcoming campaigns, please contact your SAC.

In addition to the SAC providing you information, it’s important to let your SAC representative know your thoughts about how the Network is doing. Your SAC is responsible for providing the national office with the student’s perspectives and they can’t do this without your input. If you feel that anything is important to the network, please let them know so that they can make the students voice be heard. We would also love to hear about the great programming that you are doing on your campus! Also please feel free to post on the Facebook National Page or email your SAC (area#sac@bacchusnetwork.org) to share some of the work that you are doing.

We encourage you to contact your representative with any questions and/or comments. Please feel free to contact either Courtney at courtneyd@bacchusnetwork.org or Sheldon at sheldonj@bacchusnetwork.org.

We hope that everyone has an amazing time at your area conference and we hope to hear about the work that you are doing on your campus throughout the year!