On Monday, October 22, the Paterno Fellows Student Advisory Board met with Jack Selzer to discuss ideas for enhancing the program. Attending were Briana Adams, Sean Dooling, Laura Dzwonczyk, Coral Flanagan, Doug Smith, and Danielle Mackintosh.
First the Board gave suggestions for the meeting between first-year aspirants that was then coming up, and they decided that the Big Event for spring (based on voting by Paterno Fellows) would be an evening at the Broadway show “The Addams Family.”
Then the Board discussion focused on ways to build the Paterno Fellows community:
- Can we find a way for Fellows to contact each other? A listserve?
- Is there a way that Fellows can be listed on the website, so people can see who’s involved?
- Could the Paterno Fellows build on the SHC idea of allowing students to go to dinner with a faculty member, to discuss a certain topic informally?
Board members agreed to work together to suggest activities that would be purely for fun (e.g., a ski outing), perhaps among students in the same graduating class, as a way to encourage relationships.
Groups might also be created in order to provide group service opportunities. For example, there might be ideas for service over Spring Break that could even be supported with PF funding.
The Board members emphasized the need to get additional information to Fellows in junior and senior year to let them know what’s expected.