Committee Overviews, Part I

As the semester is winding down, we're going to take a couple of weeks to highlight what some of our student-run committees do. Every ECU Teaching Fellow and Maynard Scholar is required to participate in one of six committees, and each committee meets six times a year. Because this blog is run by the Communications Committee, we'll start with them, followed by the Social Committee.

The Social Committee is changing for next year; its activities will be absorbed into another committee to make room for a brand new committee. But more on that later - this post is about this year.

Communications Committee Overview
By Anthony Hingley

This blog entry is to let everyone know exactly what the Communications Committee does. The subcommittees are: Bulletin Boards, Chalkdust, Graduate Networking, and Bloggers and Photographers.

The Bulletin boards subcommittee is responsible for planning, acquiring necessary materials, and putting up the bulletin boards located outside the Teaching Fellows office.

Chalkdust is a newsletter containing articles written by members of that subcommittee. That newsletter is sent out to the East Carolina Teaching Fellows Alumni. This is one of the ways we let our Alumni know that we remember them.

If you are a current Teaching Fellow or Maynard Scholar, and you’ve gotten a birthday card from the Teaching Fellows office, you can thank the Graduate Networking subcommittee. They also write in all the cards for the Alumni.

The bloggers and photographers are the ones responsible for all the articles and pictures in the blog you are reading. New this year, the blog has been a big success and will continue next year.

The other responsibilities of the Communications Committee are designing the Discovery t-shirt and presenting the Discovery fashion show. The Discovery t-shirt is the shirt that freshman Teaching Fellows wear on school t-shirt day during the Discovery trip. Each school makes their own shirt, and ECU usually has a very good one. The Discovery fashion show is one of the freshman seminars, where the Communications Committee lets the freshman know what is acceptable and what is unacceptable to wear on Discovery, as well as other useful pieces of information about the trip.

Social Committee Overview
by Bradley Baggett

The main thing that the Social Committee works on every year is the
Holiday Social at the end of the fall semester. Next school year, the
Social Committee will handle the Pirate Pal socials, holding one in the fall
semester and two in the spring semester. They also provide the snacks
outside the office at the end of both semesters. The Social Committee is
well liked by its members. They get to have fun and be social, something all
the ECU Teaching Fellows and Maynard Scholars seem to be good at.