Greetings,
As the inaugural Executive Board of the Higher Education Student Association at The University of Alabama, we want to say thank you! Thank you to our fellow master's students, doctoral students, and our amazing faculty who have supported this effort from day one. Starting any student organization from scratch is not an easy feat, but we are happy to say that HESA is an official Registered Student Organization thanks to our students’ determination and the full support of our department and program. For a number of years now, there have been conversations and GroupMe messages about ways our program could improve to give students more professional development opportunities or more structured social time to build relationships with one another. Taking ideas and conversations with current and previous cohorts, Stephanie and Allyson started plotting this idea of HESA. When they met with Dr. Holley, she encouraged them and guided them in the beginnings of this process. When they pitched the idea of HESA at a group advising session for Master's students, they were incredibly encouraged by the overwhelming support and excitement they received from their peers. This was exactly the type of organization that we were all missing without really knowing we were missing it. Since then, we have chosen officers and committee chairs, formed committees with goals and agendas, and will have our first official general body meeting on November 30. But, in the words of the great Coach Nick Saban, “This is not the end. This is the beginning!” In Spring 2017, HESA is ready to hit the ground running! We have ideas to turn into events, applicants that will become accepted students, and individual knowledge to share and turn into group knowledge. We have so much to do, and we are so excited to get to work with some of the most passionate, up-and-coming practitioners in the field of Higher Ed. Join us as we lay the foundation of HESA for the future students and cohorts to come. Roll Tide, The 2016-2017 Executive Board
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