Education Council Committees for 2004-2005

Fundraising
Michelle Odanovich and Jennifer Overbeck - Committee Co-Chairs
(Charles Huang, Financial director oversees committee)
The Fundraising Committee will be responsible for creating new fundraising ideas for Education Council. As a committee, they will decide on a new t-shirt design each semester. They will also create new ideas for raising money for Education Council. The Committee Chair(s) will purchase these items with Education Council monies and will be responsible for making sign-up sheets for selling the items. This Committee is very important because without money, Education Council cannot sponsor projects or support other groups and ourselves.

Publicity and Recruiting
Angela Hsu - Committee Chair
The Publicity and Recruiting Committee will be responsible for promoting Education Council events throughout the year. As a committee, they will be responsible for designing, making, and posting flyers, signs, banners, and announcements as needed for Education Council meetings, events, and special projects. The use of poster paints and computer applications will be used to design eye-catching announcements and draw students to become members of council. recruiting activities can include setting up tables in the West Mall, participating in a variety of Student Organization fairs and distributing informational flyers about Education Council. The committee will be responsible for publicizing Education Council in the Anna Hiss Gym, Belmont Hall, and the Sanchez Building. Email communication may also be used as a means to communicate special projects.

Service Projects
Cristofer Mattern and Elvia Villareal - Committee Co-Chairs
The Service Projects Committee will be responsible for researching and find out out all the special events going on throughout the UT Campus. They will also be responsible for reaching out to the Austin community and discovering areas that can benefit from our help. As a committee, they will decide which events Education Council will participate in. Some of the events that this committee will consider are Part on the Plaza, Longhorn Halloween, Explore UT, 40 Acres Fest, Texas Revue, Commencement, Capitol Area Food Bank, Habitat for Humanity and Project 2005. This committee will also be responsible for addressing projects that are held internally in the COE and will work on Senate sponsored events such as Longhorn School Bus. Committee Chairs will set dates and provide the Council with sign-up sheets for all events. Through this committee, Education Council will get the COE name visible throughout the UT Campus and Austin community.

Adopted School
Mari Nakanishi and Alesia Dominguez - Committee Co-Chairs
The Adopted School Committee is an addition this year due to desire to be able to work more closely and involve ourselves better with both of our adopted schools, Wooten Elementary and the UT Charter School. Through this committee, Education Council can focus more of our efforts on giving both of these schools the type of support they need  from us. As a committee, they will work with these schools to come up with and implement projects and activities for Council members to participate in. Some ideas that have been done in the past are a garden at Wooten, pumpkin carving at UT Elementary, and volunteering at book fairs and RIF.

Social
Brittney Butcher and Arianna Ayala - Committee Co-Chairs
The Service Projects Committee will be responsible for providing opportunities for members in Education Council and in the College of Education to network and have fun. As a committee, they will be responsible for creating social events that will take place during our regularly scheduled meeting and also events that will take place outside of meetings. Some of the events that this committee will be responsible for are Intramural Sports, scheduling of "Eat before we meet", planning mixers with out Buddy Council from Senate and other COE student organization, planning our 3rd annual COE Week, Faculty/Staff Appreciation Week and Fall/Spring Banquets. The Committee will also be responsible for publishing the Education Council member yearbook each semester. Through the help of this committee, Education Council will build friendships that will last a lifetime.