Session Title: How to Make Students Care About Your Student Government
Session Presenter:
Butch Oxendine, Executive Director
American Student Government Association
Session Description: Your SG must do something real that matters to fellow students if you ever want to be respected and appreciated. This workshop will give real examples of innovative and exciting “signature programs” that are being used by SGs nationwide to get the attention of students and administrators. These programs will make your SG much-admired and “relevant,” and will help you with everything from member recruiting to voter turnout to relations with administrators.
Session Objectives:
1. Be aware of the 800 programs you could bring to your campus
2. Understand what makes a “signature program”
3. How do you find one that will work for you
4. Understand which signature programs are best
About Your Presenter: Butch is founder of the American Student Government Association. Butch was SGA vice president and editor-in-chief of the college newspaper (serving at the same time) at Lake City Community College, then served as SG press secretary and editor of The Campus Leader at the University of Florida. Named in 1992 as one of the nation’s top 100 entrepreneurs under age 30 by the Association for Collegiate Entrepreneurs, Butch has been publishing student-oriented magazines, books, and web sites for nearly 40 years. He studied journalism at the University of Florida, but left school to work full-time on his first magazine, Florida Leader. He later launched four other publications, including the national magazine Student Leader. He has written three books on student-leadership issues. Butch is married to Kathy, and they have a daughter, Leah, and four sons (Will, Adam, Andrew, Luke) and grandson Shiloh. Butch enjoys being a Trekker, loves Firefly, working outdoors, serving his God and church, scoring his boys' high school baseball games, and cheering for the Tampa Bay Rays, Lightning, and Bucs.