Response from SAC Chair to the
Report by the Special Review Committee about Region 3 SAC

20 August 2012

Overall I am very happy with the report you gave. It shows most of the
deficiencies our regions has with concerns to students. We have started to
address a lot of these tasks over the past year already and we are making some
(slow) progress. We are working diligently on all of these topics making the
direct student contact our foremost goal. One result of this has been an
increase in reimbursements of student travel for SoutheastCon (and
unfortunately therefore an overspending of our budget). We have set up a
reimbursement process via a google spreadsheet. Which seemed to work out ok.
We will further fine tune this approach. We have started the work on the
student conference manual, only this work has always been delayed by more
burning issues in direct contact with the students. We will rethink our
strategy here and maybe try to get in more help on this topic. Which leads to
our approach of building a bigger SAC committee to ensure better "local" work.
We have due some outreach and found people willing to help, unfortunately due
to current work loads of the core team (RSAC, RSR, and Vice Chair of SAC
committee, who is the current regional SPAC chair), led to not enough follow
up. With the current plan of re-initiating fall leadership training we hope to
get enough energy worked up within the group and with the students to get the
committee work going.Finally, we have started a Facebook page for R3 students
and a ramping up the use of it, therefore hopefully we are able to ensure
better communications with the branches in the region. We will add the goal of
reaching out to the students for more articles in the student news (actually
right now as an associate editor for Potentials I got a similar request for
articles from the region in Potentials, so I can hopefully create a new trend
on reporting from the branches).

I hope this answers all your questions, if not please send me an email and i
hope to be able to answer in a more timely manner. Thanks to the committee for
providing all the input.

Regina Hannemann
SAC Chair
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