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RSO Advisor News: Fall Quarter Review & Winter Updates

Jessie Stellini - Thursday, January 2, 2025
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RSO ADVISOR NEWSLETTER FALL 2024 - Quarter in Review

Thank you!

Hello Registered Student Organization (RSO) Advisors!
We (the staff of the Office of Student Engagement) want to share our heartfelt gratitude for the support you provide to our Student Organizations! We know the additional work often takes place in the informal moments, conversations before and after official meetings, quick check-ins, and providing last minute resources and help in planning for the unexpected, but it doesn't go unnoticed.  

As always, our team is here to support you in the work you do with the student organizations, so please let us know how we can be there for you while you're there for the students. 

As a reminder here are a few resources you may want to peruse or bookmark:

Please reach out if you need anything,

- Student Engagement Team
studentengagement@du.edu 
Infographic showing some highlights from the fall quarter

Fall 2024 RSO Highlights:

Fall quarter in review

RSO Re-Registration
Annual Re-Registration saw higher completion this year than prior years, with 64% of our returning RSOs completing all requirements and edits before the Re-Registration Deadline!
Events Hosted:
Over 400 RSO events and meetings were hosted in the Fall Quarter. The Student Affairs & Inclusive Excellence Assessment team identified that 370 of these events aligned with one or more of the 4D Experience Dimensions (Character Exploration, Intellectual Growth, Pursuing Careers & Lives of Purpose, Well-being). 

Based on RSVPs, the 3 most well attended events this quarter were:
  • SASA, SASE & The Cultural Center's Diwali 
  • LAISA, LSA, NSA & The Cultural Center's Dia de los Muertos Celebration
  • Divest DU's Campus Convos: Activism Open Mic Night
Pulse Advertising:
The Pulse Newsletter which goes to all Undergraduate Students every week saw nearly 50% of RSO Events advertised through the newsletter. 
Funding Provided:
So far USG has distributed over $200,000 from the Student Activities Fee to the RSOs through Base Allocations (funds provided to fully approved RSOs ahead of the school year), Conference Funding Requests, and other Supplemental Requests for event needs and club materials. These funds were provided by USG's Finance Committee, Diversity Committee and Sustainability Committee. More funding is available for the Winter and Spring Quarters through the Supplemental Funding request form. 
New RSOs:
8 Brand new RSOs were established this fall: 
  • DU Deep Talk Fans
  • Plant Futures
  • Pre-Vet Club
  • Unity without Borders
  • Multicultural Psychology
  • Club Club for Collective Liberation
  • The Thirty Second City
  • Students Supporting Israel
Students throwing snow on campus

Looking ahead to Winter Quarter

Harm Reduction Summit

To better support busy schedules, the facilitator team for the Harm Reduction Workshops has coordinated to offer a Harm Reduction Summit February 10th - 21st. Throughout these two weeks, the various Harm Reduction Workshops will be offered for students as "open workshops" that any student can attend in an effort to complete the Harm Reduction Requirement. 

More details will be added to the event page as the facilitators finalize the date, time, and location of the workshops they'll be offering. We encourage you to share this information with the RSO Officers you support. 

Our hope in building out the Summit is that RSOs don't can share this information out rather than having to schedule workshops during RSO meetings or as their own RSO event. We will be advertising this Summit to RSO Officers and all students once we're back in January.


Moving to Momentus

Earlier this month, IT's Project Management Team sent information out to many colleagues about the soft launch of Momentus, a software that will be replacing 25-Live for EVENT Bookings on campus and serve as a one-stop event booking portal. 

The soft-launch is scheduled for January 21st, and Space Booking User Demonstrations will be offered virtually on January 6th (3-4pm) and January 7th (11am-12pm). 

As our team in Student Engagement learns more we will do our best to send as much information as possible to you as RSO Advisors and to the RSO Officers, as we know they are a population of frequent event planners who will be migrating over to this new system. We encourage you to attend a training if possible so you can serve as an additional resource to RSO Officers as they move through the transition from one system to the other. 


Winter Quarter Dates to Know

The following are some important event dates and other important dates to note as your RSOs begin planning for the Winter Quarter:
  • JANUARY
    • 14: First-Gen Study Abroad Talk Show
    • 15: Community Commons Birthday Bash
    • 31: ASA Lunar New Year Event
  • FEBRUARY
    • 3-9: DUPB Presents: Winter Carnival (2/7-2/9: On Mountain Weekend)
    • 10-15: Love, Sex, Health Week
    • 10-21: Harm Reduction Summit
    • 12: Sex Ed-Stravaganza
    • 18: First@DU Etiquette Dinner
    • 28-3/31: Ramadan
  • MARCH
    • Ramadan takes place throughout the month of March this year, please be cognizant of students' observance. 
    • 10: Health Promotion's Mocktail Beach Bash
    • 10: HRE Spring Break Send Off
    • 12: Health Promotion's End of Season Stress Relief
    • 14: SASA's Holi Event
    • 18-21: Finals

Opportunity Highlight:

As RSO Advisors, you are likely considered among a student's "Constellation of Mentors". The 4D Experience Team hosts regular workshops and conversations for Faculty and Staff to further explore how your roles on campus (formal and informal) contribute to students' 4D Experience. 

EVENT

Constellation of Support Series

Monday, January 6, 2025 at 9:00am
to Friday, March 14, 2025 at 5:00pm
Private Location (sign in to display)
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As part of the program, content experts from across the university will come together to provide faculty, staff, and graduate students with both frameworks and strategies for caring for themselves, their colleagues, and their students. Through participating in this professional and personal development program, individuals will be part of building a stronger, more resilient community and constellation of support in line with the holistic 4D model.
RSVP

Resource Higlight:
CrimsonConnect Personal Meeting Scheduler:

As the rollout of CrimsonConnect to a university-wide audience continues, we want to point out a great feature of the system, that may allow you to cut down on the back and forth of scheduling meetings with students by syncing your Office365 calendar with CrimsonConnect's personal Meeting Scheduler.

This will allow you to set the specific time blocks you're open to hosting meetings, and you can send a quick link to students so they can sign up for a time that's available on your calendar. 

This step-by-step will walk you through how to set it up! 

We wish you the best as we head toward the Holidays, and we'll see you on the other side of the new year!


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