{"id":2323,"date":"2014-04-14T17:03:55","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T21:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/collegecouncil.williams.edu\/?p=2323"},"modified":"2014-04-14T17:05:37","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T21:05:37","slug":"a-belated-farewell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/college-council\/?p=2323","title":{"rendered":"A Belated Farewell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Williams<\/b>:<\/span><\/p>\n

Thank you. \u00a0Thank you for believing in us. \u00a0And thank you for allowing us to serve you this past year; it has been one of the greatest honors bestowed on us.<\/p>\n

This has been a challenging year for us all.\u00a0 When we began out tenure, we immediately had a financial crisis on our hands.\u00a0 We were very fortunate, though, for the students you elected in the spring, all of whom played a tremendous role in finding tangible ways to allow CC to continue to run and fund all of your amazing acapella performances, lecturers, dances, and everyday group meetings.\u00a0 Today, CC\u2019s finances are strong.\u00a0 We focused a tremendous amount of time looking through every single budget for the last few fiscal years, forecasted where our finances would be throughout the year–and in future years–established a new method of seeking co-sponsorship funding, and ensured that the Council continued to keep its finances as a priority.\u00a0 Additionally, we decided to pay for every student organization\u2019s legacy debt, thus allowing everyone, for the first time in many years, to begin with a clean budget.\u00a0 We hope that this will allow student organizations to put on even more productions on campus throughout the year.<\/p>\n

In addition, we ensured we continued to listen to you and worked on the items you wanted us to focus on.\u00a0 The Council spent many meetings debating resolutions proposed by the student body, appointed students from many different backgrounds and experiences onto a plethora of new task forces and committees established this year, and ensured that we didn\u2019t forget who we were representing throughout the year.<\/p>\n

In the document linked here<\/a>, you will find the College Council 2013-2014 End-of-Year Report. \u00a0The following information is included in this document:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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College Council Committees:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Summary of what the internal College Council committees worked on this year.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Larger Campus Wide Issues:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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A summary of campus wide issues that the Council tackled, including recommendations for the 2014-2015 Council.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Mid-Year Updates:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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An overview of what some student-faculty committees have worked on so far this academic year.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Resolutions:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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All of the resolutions that were voted on by the 2013-2014 Council.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

It has been an amazing experience, one neither of us could have ever imagined when we decided to run last spring.\u00a0 We\u2019ve seen Williams through many different lenses and we have all of you to thank for that.\u00a0 Thank you again for electing us one year ago, for keeping us on our feet, and for working hard on your end to ensure the Council did what it was supposed to do.\u00a0 We\u2019ve learned a lot, were constantly reminded how great Williams was through the work we were able to do, and had a great time serving you during our time on College Council. We’re excited to see what Emily and Erica do during their time and hope that they, too, will find as much joy as we did.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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To all the graduating seniors, congratulations, we\u2019ve (almost) made it.\u00a0 To the underclassmen, good luck in your future years at Williams!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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To never forgetting the\u00a0excitement\u00a0of perusing through the College Council bylaws,<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Max and Adrian<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Williams: Thank you. \u00a0Thank you for believing in us. \u00a0And thank you for allowing us to serve you this past year; it has been one of the greatest honors bestowed on us. This has been a challenging year for us all.\u00a0 When we began out tenure, we immediately had a financial crisis on our hands.\u00a0 Read more about A Belated Farewell<\/span>[…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1361],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/college-council\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/college-council\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/college-council\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/college-council\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/college-council\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2323"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/college-council\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2327,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/college-council\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions\/2327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/college-council\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/college-council\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/college-council\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}