Executive Board

Collins Executive Board

The Collins Executive Board meets in Ed Lounge every other week at 7 p.m. before the Board of Governors Meeting. Check the calendar for specific meeting dates. All Collins residents are welcome to attend.

Executives

Job Descriptions

Executive Board Minutes available here!

If you have any questions or interest in any of the below groups or organizations, please contact them via their IU username under their name. If you are not sure who to contact, just email IU username: CollinsG and we will make sure that it gets to the right people. Check the calendar for meetings and events!

President

Monica Debbeler

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The President coordinates and facilitates student government in Collins, She represents Collins across campus on committees and at the Residence Halls Association. She also communicates with Collins staff about student activities and wishes. Anyone can and should get involved by coming to meetings, doing a program or just letting her know what would make Collins go from great to out-of-this-world.

BOG Vice-President

Jamie Becker

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The Vice President for the Board of Governors (BOG) is primarily responsible for presiding over Collins BOG Meetings. In this capacity, the VP BOG is responsible for keeping contact with Floor Governors and informing them when meetings will be held, setting the agenda, taking attendance, and conducting votes at BOG meetings. Along with presiding at BOG meetings, he represents the Board of Governors to outside groups and assists the Collins President in the execution of her duties. In the event that the Collins President is unable to perform his duties, the VP BOG acts as Collins President.

BOP Vice-President

Alex Lahmeyer

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The Vice President for the Collins Board of Programmers officially oversees all programming in Collins, but is primarily responsible for four large events during the year: the Halloween Dance, Dickens Dinner, the Viennese Ball and Collinsfest. For each event he plans meetings, coordinates volunteers, purchases and creates decorations, and publicizes events. He also oversees the event itself. The VP BOP also serves on the Welcome Week committee and is in charge of decorations.

Judicial Board Chair

Chelsea Merta

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When an IU student is charged with violating either the Code of Rights, Responsibilities and Conduct or Residence Hall Rules and Regulations, they enter the campus judicial system. Each residence hall has its own student board that hears judicial "conferences" for these infractions and recommends sanctions to the Dean of Students. Judicial Board is foremost an educational body; it helps students evaluate their habits without offering moral judgment. Chelsea leads the Collins conferences and serves as a liaison between the campus judicial system and individual students.

Community Council Chair

Marianna Eble

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The Community Council Chair conducts weekly meetings with students and staff, who review space reservation and funding requests and discuss policy issues; examples of discussion topics from the past include the newly initiated smoking ban and locking floor doors. Marianna creates and maintains a calendar of all approved Collins events and communicates CC’s decisions to the individuals who submit space and funding requests, as well as to the community at large. Finally, she helps formulate policies regarding use of Collins public spaces and what kinds of programs are acceptable.

Communication

Emily Mulholland

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The Director of Communications at Collins manages a weekly e-newsletter to the entire population of the center. She organizes Collins announcements and maintains the Collins' Student Government e-mail account, forwarding all inquiries, questions and comments get to the right director or executive board member. For more information contact either GnomeNws@indiana.edu or CollinsG@indiana.edu

Community Involvement

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The Community Involvement Director works to provide opportunities for fellow Collinsites to give back to IU and the Bloomington community. The Director is available for personal consultation in finding individual volunteer opportunities for those who are interested, and lead bi-weekly meetings to update members on future programs within the community. Programs have included volunteering at the Monroe County Humane Society, Rise Trick or Treating, collecting funds and purchasing gifts for Be a Santa to a Senior, and helping the American Red Cross with Collins Blood Drives.

Environmentalism

Elizabeth Danielson

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The Environmental Force (E-Force) Director is the advocate for student environmentalism within Collins. They recruit new members and schedule and run meetings twice a month, where they update E-Forcers on environmental happenings within Collins and the community. Once a month, E-Force puts on environmental programs such as film-viewings, speakers, and field trips. They work with other environmental groups around campus and the Bloomington community such as INPIRG, Volunteers in Sustainability, and the RHA Directors of Environmentalism.

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Finance

Myra Ansley

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The Director of Finance manages the Board of Governors financial transactions, collecting and dispersing funds according to the wishes of BOG, as dictated by their regulations and bills passed. Once BOG has approved a funding request for a program, make sure to contact the Director of Finance and communicate in advance in what form the money is desired. He or she works with the Student Office of Accounts office and disperses funds according to their rules and regulations. If you have any questions about getting funding from BOG, feel free to contact the Director of Finance.

Historian

Sarah Epplin

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Historian Sarah Epplin works for the student government by creating and

preserving the history of Collins LLC. She collects records including

but not limited to Collins Columns issues, minutes from Executive

Board, Board of Governors, Board of Programmers and Community Council

meetings. She also organizes miscellaneous Collins archives including

photographs, Indiana Daily Student articles about Collins, and documents from Collins history. The archives are housed in the Collins annex.

Sports & Recreation

Danielle Thoe

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The Director of Sports and Recreation plans and facilitates activities that are recreation-related including camping trips, hikes, pick up games around Collins, etc. She is also responsible for the camping and sports equipment that is available for student use. She can be contacted about possibly funding any desired recreational activity and can be used as a resource for planning and running these activities.

Arts Council Chair

Madeline Wolfe

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BOEP co-chair

Ronak Shah

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Spencer and Ronak work with the Board of Educational Programming and Collins residents to plan educational programs and events for the Collins community. They are also involved in the course selection process, where BOEP chooses the Collins courses that will be taught in future semesters. Through a variety of course consultations, cuts, and interviews, BOEP seeks to pick the very best courses for Collins students. BOEP also plans a variety of educational programs, including professor dinners and fireside chats, where students have the opportunity to learn from professors. Students can also learn from each other either through a program or by teaching a short course. Anyone from Collins can become involved in BOEP, so check the calendar and come to our next meeting!

BOEP co-chair

Spencer Petry

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IUSA Senator

Tarlie Townsend

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Tarlie represents the residents of Collins to IUSA, which is the

university's campus-wide student governing body. She must attend the IUSA meetings and keep residents of Collins informed on the workings of IUSA, bills, and the IUSA constitution. IUSA representatives also have the opportunity to serve on various faculty committees.

RHA GA Delegates

Daniel Oates

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Josh Nosie

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Feedback Forms!

We are implementing a new system to share information about the awesome programs that go on here at Collins. Whenever you request money from a council (BOG, Community Council, Arts Council, or BOEP):

STEP 1. Get a brief form (from the council or from the above link) to fill out AFTER the program about how it went.

STEP 2. Turn in the form at the Student Government Office mailbox in Ed Foyer.

The forms will be kept in a binder in the Duty Office so you can look up how others organized similar programs when you are planning yours! We can't wait to hear how your programs went, and what advice you have for the rest of us planning similar programs! The main benefit is that we can all learn from each other's programs more easily.

Daniel and Josh represent Collins to the General Assembly of the Residence Halls Association (RHA). The General Assembly (GA) is the legislative body of RHA, and works with the RHA executives to address student issues within the residence halls and on the greater campus. Josh is a representative on the Academic Initiatives and Services (AIS) Committee, which supervises all living-learning, thematic, and academic communities at IU. AIS has also initiated a wide array of academic services in the residence halls, such as the Academic Support Centers. Daniel is a representative on the Mealplan Committee, which works with RPS Dining Services to evaluate and improve the dining options available to students.

Madeline chairs the entire Arts Council, a thriving group at Collins. She oversees the various arts coordinators and holds a meeting every other Sunday afternoon. Arts Council supports and finances art, music, dance, and theatre activities in Collins. Arts Council Coordinators are in charge of the ceramics studio, darkroom, video editing suite, and other arts-related facilities.