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Students to Join HFSC Committee

While construction on the Healey Family Student Center continues, the Center for Student Engagement is establishing a planning and advisory committee to facilitate student input.

The committee will consist of appointed administrators as well as students who will represent both individual organizations and the student body as a whole.

“It’s going to be a combination of students appointed through their group area and through an open application process,” Director of Student Engagement Erika Cohen Derr said. “My vision was that it would be a combined group of students reflecting both specific perspectives and general interests.”

Cohen Derr expects the committee to begin meeting in November, with committee members helping to screen potential staff members for the center.

“They’ll be involved in all aspects of planning the program launch of the space. Part of this will be the search for the full-time program director and full-time director of the HFSC and will include resume screening [and] interviews,” Cohen Derr said. “They’ll help set policies and priorities that’ll maximize student space.”

Additionally, members will provide input to Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson on how to use space in the center, including helping to choose furniture and decorations and suggesting areas to be designated free-speech zones.

Students of Georgetown Inc., Interhall Council, the Georgetown Programming Board, the Performing Arts Advisory Council and the Georgetown University Student Association will all have representatives on the committee. Students not affiliated with campus groups were also invited to apply.

“I think the idea behind that is to make sure that stakeholders have representation,” GUSA Director of Student Space Jack Appelbaum (COL ’14) said. “They’re really keeping it a student-focused space and helping to plan some of the policies and organizing the launch to really help get that space fully operational.”

Many dance and performing arts groups were displaced by HFSC construction. PAAC Chair T. Chase Meachum (COL ’14) expressed appreciation that his group is represented on the planning committee.

“It’s a terrific gesture that the performing arts have been asked to put forward an appointee onto this body,” Meachum wrote in an email. “Though the Department of the Performing Arts has done a tremendous amount of planning and coordination to try and mitigate as much as possible the strain on these groups, it has certainly been tough.”

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