The "Star Campus" award is given out to MSCSA’s most active student senates. Ten student senates from the 47 two-year Minnesota State College and University campuses that are members of MSCSA were granted “Star Campus” status.
First time recipients include Central Lakes College-Staples, Hennepin Technical College-Brooklyn Park, Normandale Community College, Saint Paul College and South Central College-North Mankato.
Anoka Ramsey Community College-Coon Rapids, Central Lakes College-Brainerd, Dakota County Technical College, Inver Hills Community College and Lake Superior College were awarded "Star Campus" for the second year in a row.
Criteria for the award include active attendance at MSCSA events, participation in MSCSA campaigns such as our Pell Grant petition work and recruiting students to lobby at the Minnesota Capitol. The full “Star Campus” criteria can be found at http://mscsa.org/become-a-mscsa-star-campus.
The student senates accepted the award at the MSCSA Spring General Assembly at Breezy Point Resort.
Does your campus have the commitment to become a MSCSA Star Campus? We think you do. But it won't be easy and only the most active campuses will meet the criteria to become Stars. Below are the details of how your campus can become a MSCSA Star Campus.
Why are we doing the Star Campus Program?
We really want to increase active campus engagement with MSCSA events and our campaign work.
This will be a great way for us to track campus participation.
It will be a way to recognize and reward active participants.
The Criteria or how will your campus attain "Star Campus" status
We will use a point-based award system.
Points are earned by campus involvement in MSCSA events and campaigns from September through March (see chart below).
10 points to reach Star status. If you add up all of the possible points below, you can get more than 10 points, but 10 is the minimum to be a star campus.
Star Campus Point Criteria
Points
Criteria
0.5
Campus Present at DC Summit
0.5
Per conference with a new attendee (September-March, excluding Advocacy Days)
0.5
Send Student Senate bylaws into MSCSA office
0.5
Second place winner of Mock Legislative Visits
0.5
Submit student story for legislative database (once)
0.5
Picture of MSCSA campaign work on campus (once)
1.0
Schedule and attend one student senate visit to the Capitol outside of Advocacy Days (once)
1.0
Votes met at Fall GA w/o a proxy
1.0
Winner of Mock Legislative Visits
1.0
Submit Monthly Senate Photo alongside of MSCSA Monthly “MSCSA Minute” (One point total for doing this every month from September-March)
1.0
Bring two students to Advocacy Days
3.0
Campus present at every conference (September-March, excluding Advocacy Days)
10 Points
Star Campus
The Award
Star Campuses will be recognized at Spring General Assembly.
Nameplate for student senate office.
Group photo and letter of recognition from MSCSA President.
Recognition on MSCSA website and in other publications.
Six student senates were recently awarded “Star Campus” status by the Minnesota State College Student Association (MSCSA). This award is given out to MSCSA’s most active student senates. Only six student senates from the 47 two-year Minnesota State College and University campuses that are members of MSCSA were granted “Star Campus” status.
The six campuses that received the Star Campus award include: Anoka Technical College; Anoka Ramsey Community College, Coon Rapids Campus; Central Lakes College, Brainerd Campus; Dakota County Technical College; Inver Hills Community College; and Lake Superior College.
This is the first year that MSCSA is giving out the “Star Campus” awards. Criteria for the award include active attendance at MSCSA events, participation in MSCSA campaigns such as our “Get out the Vote” efforts and bringing students to lobby at the Minnesota Capitol. The full “Star Campus” criteria can be found at http://mscsa.org/become-a-mscsa-star-campus.
The student senates accepted the award at the MSCSA Spring General Assembly at Breezy Point Resort.
