On Monday we held the MIRSA Strategic Planning meeting at Central Michigan University. Representatives attended from Grand Valley, CMU, Wayne State, University of Michigan, Michigan State, and Oakland University from undergraduate students to professionals with 10+ years of experience.
Stan Shingles, NIRSA's President-Elect, started the event by explaining NIRSA's values to us to use as a framework. From there, small discussion groups took place to figure out what MIRSA's mission, vision, and values should be by thinking about the following questions:
- Who are we? What does MIRSA mean to you?
- Where are we going? How do you see MIRSA in the future?
- What is important to you as a MIRSA member?
As you can see in the photo below, there were plenty of notes jotted down about what MIRSA is and what it should be.
Next we discussed our committees and what each could be doing throughout the year to make each committee effective and valuable. We did decide to change up the committee terms, so if you are interested in getting involved, look out for more information at Workshop and look for the call for committees to come out later in October!
- By-laws and Operating Codes
- Workshop
- Championship and Special Events
- Finance
- Awards and Scholarships
- Nominations and Elections
- Technology
- Student
To wrap up the meeting, we discussed the next questions about how a MIRSA membership can be more valuable:
- What do you want to get out of your MIRSA membership?
- What leadership opportunities would be beneficial to you?
- What resources can MIRSA provide?
We received lots of great feedback and are looking forward to making changes. We'll have the results to share with everyone in about a month's time.
Huge thanks to everyone that participated and big shout out to CMU's UREC team for being such gracious and generous hosts! We're excited to be back in October for the Workshop!
