Q&A
Suggestions for improving CUNY's civic engagement efforts
1:31:16
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The council member and students discuss potential improvements to CUNY's civic engagement initiatives. Students emphasize the need for more resources, better collaboration with student organizations, and addressing the challenges of balancing civic engagement activities with academic and work responsibilities.
- Alexis Ramirez highlights the need for additional resources to alleviate overburdened volunteers
- Salimatou Doumbouya suggests better collaboration between CUNY administration and student governments
- Students emphasize the importance of peer-to-peer communication in civic engagement efforts
Eric Dinowitz
1:31:16
Are there things let's say for the example, CUNY could be doing more effectively For example, you mentioned under staffing, which sounds like funding.
1:31:25
So funding greater.
1:31:27
Training perhaps or any of these things would be helpful.
1:31:31
Would any of these things be helpful in your work that you work with Acuity?
Alexis Ramirez
1:31:37
I don't necessarily think that training is the issue.
1:31:40
I I do believe that the scarce resources are because I know that there is a commitment within my school's administration and within the people I worked with to encourage students to vote and register.
1:31:52
I just think that, you know, the lack of resources and maybe the, you know, a lot of these a lot of these volunteers are juggling work schedules, you know, class schedules, extracurriculars.
1:32:02
So it does it does become overbearing.
1:32:05
So believe if maybe there are additional resources sort of alleviate that overburden, I think that would go and create great great progress.
Salimatou Doumbouya
1:32:15
If I may also, I think that Quni can do better in collaborating with the student governments and the campus wide student organizations like USS, I think that students need to be met where they are and students need to be spoken to in the language that they understand.
1:32:33
And sometimes we just understand each other better.
1:32:36
So I think more formalized partnerships, more formalized collaborations, and recognition of everybody's strength may be a direction towards more progress.