The Role of an Administrator
Step 1: Reach
out to SDCN.
Once you have familiarized yourself with SD and SDCN and are interested in helping students start an SD program, contact SDCN so we can begin to help you strategically plan the process.
Step 2: Identify students to form an initiating team.
This team will have to complete the SDCN Application to initiate an SD Fellowship Program. Your team should be young, passionate about the issues affecting campus climate, committed, charismatic, personable, representative, well connected to the campus, creative and responsible. SDCN can help you develop a strategic profile.
Step 3: Facilitate conversation between the student initiating team and SDCN.
Introduce the initiating team to the current Program Directors of SDCN so that they can learn what SD is, the rewards and challenges of building an SD program, and the process for doing so.
Step 4: Support the initiating team.
Introduce students to campus resources available to aid their efforts. Present SD program to relevant students, faculty, administration, and staff to give early momentum to the program. Help the students find any information needed for their proposal to SDCN.
Step 5: Discover your role as a supporter, not a leader.
SD must be a student-led initiative. Students will be best at adapting the SD model to their campus culture. Step in to support the students with encouragement and advice; be a mentor.
Step 6: Watch the organization's launch and stay in contact!
If you begin working with SDCN on initiating a program, students will soon develop the initiative into an organization. Be in close supportive contact as these students grow into leaders, develop skills, and learn to engage, challenge, and change their community.
Once you have familiarized yourself with SD and SDCN and are interested in helping students start an SD program, contact SDCN so we can begin to help you strategically plan the process.
Step 2: Identify students to form an initiating team.
This team will have to complete the SDCN Application to initiate an SD Fellowship Program. Your team should be young, passionate about the issues affecting campus climate, committed, charismatic, personable, representative, well connected to the campus, creative and responsible. SDCN can help you develop a strategic profile.
Step 3: Facilitate conversation between the student initiating team and SDCN.
Introduce the initiating team to the current Program Directors of SDCN so that they can learn what SD is, the rewards and challenges of building an SD program, and the process for doing so.
Step 4: Support the initiating team.
Introduce students to campus resources available to aid their efforts. Present SD program to relevant students, faculty, administration, and staff to give early momentum to the program. Help the students find any information needed for their proposal to SDCN.
Step 5: Discover your role as a supporter, not a leader.
SD must be a student-led initiative. Students will be best at adapting the SD model to their campus culture. Step in to support the students with encouragement and advice; be a mentor.
Step 6: Watch the organization's launch and stay in contact!
If you begin working with SDCN on initiating a program, students will soon develop the initiative into an organization. Be in close supportive contact as these students grow into leaders, develop skills, and learn to engage, challenge, and change their community.