{"id":1768,"date":"2024-11-19T13:58:47","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T18:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/?p=1768"},"modified":"2024-11-20T15:39:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T20:39:05","slug":"travels-with-tiberius-special-edition-sga-receives-suny-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/2024\/11\/19\/travels-with-tiberius-special-edition-sga-receives-suny-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Travels with Tiberius Special Edition: SGA Receives SUNY Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tiberius headed to Syracuse with nine members of the Student Government Association for the SUNY Student Assembly Fall Leadership Conference, knowing a secret\u2014they were going to come home with an award!<\/p>\n<p>The MCC SGA received the SUNY Student Assembly President\u2019s Award for Civic Engagement. Jodi Oriel, Student Life Advisor, nominated MCC\u2019s SGA for their extraordinary work with voter registration and engagement for the 2024 election. Members of the SGA led by Jodi and Mark Sample, the faculty advisor, include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Angelo Romero<\/li>\n<li>Joseph Leichtner<\/li>\n<li>Alicia Crimmins<\/li>\n<li>Loritea Ellis<\/li>\n<li>Liam Krieger<\/li>\n<li>Tehya Deisenroth<\/li>\n<li>Esma Demir<\/li>\n<li>Nicholas Tran<\/li>\n<li>Neenee Curry<\/li>\n<li>Elizabeth Cole<\/li>\n<li>Billy Simba<\/li>\n<li>Alyssa Ryan<\/li>\n<li>Shawn San Sanchez<\/li>\n<li>Ashley Wrobeh<\/li>\n<li>Elisabeth Small<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some of the activities SGA participated in which led to their award include but are not limited to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>From the theme \u201cBe Counted: Voting Is Your Right,\u201d they created a QR code that led the MCC Community to the SUNY Turbo Vote tile featured on the myMCC Website. The code was sent to all students and displayed on posters throughout campus.<\/li>\n<li>They organized informational tables every day, from the first day of classes until Election Day, which included laptops to register students to vote.<\/li>\n<li>They held watch parties for the debates and election night when the results came in.<\/li>\n<li>SGA partnered with the Political Science department to engage the student body in deliberative dialogue events leading to Election Day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Along with the award presentation, the SGA and other conference attendees celebrated the 50th Anniversary of the SUNY Student Assembly. Dr. Christina Lee and Senator Elizabeth Cole also presented \u201cHow Culturally Responsive Campuses Can Increase a Sense of Belonging: Examples from Monroe Community College\u201d at the conference.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1767\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/11\/TIberius-with-Student-Assembly-Presidents-Award-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"Tiberius with Student Assembly President\u2019s Award: Legal-sized paper cutout of Tiberius, the MCC mascot, stands next to the paper certificate of the SUNY Student Assembly President\u2019s\u00a0Award.\" width=\"312\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/11\/TIberius-with-Student-Assembly-Presidents-Award-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/11\/TIberius-with-Student-Assembly-Presidents-Award-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/11\/TIberius-with-Student-Assembly-Presidents-Award-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/11\/TIberius-with-Student-Assembly-Presidents-Award-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/11\/TIberius-with-Student-Assembly-Presidents-Award-133x100.jpeg 133w, https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/11\/TIberius-with-Student-Assembly-Presidents-Award-rotated.jpeg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 312px) 100vw, 312px\" \/> \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1770\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/11\/SGA-and-Presenters-with-Tiberius-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"SGA and Presenters with Tiberius\u00a0\u2013 \u00a0A group shot\u00a0of seven people (six students and Dr. Christina Lee) smile at the camera.\u00a0One student is\u00a0holding the paper Tiberius.\" width=\"307\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/11\/SGA-and-Presenters-with-Tiberius-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/11\/SGA-and-Presenters-with-Tiberius-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/11\/SGA-and-Presenters-with-Tiberius-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/11\/SGA-and-Presenters-with-Tiberius-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/11\/SGA-and-Presenters-with-Tiberius-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/11\/SGA-and-Presenters-with-Tiberius-133x100.jpeg 133w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 307px) 100vw, 307px\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1765\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/11\/SGA-Trip-11-16_Tiberius-Group-1-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"SGA Trip November 16 Tiberius Group 1: A group of students stand in the sunshine\u00a0outside in front of the MCC bus. One\u00a0is holding up the paper cutout of Tiberius.\" width=\"311\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/11\/SGA-Trip-11-16_Tiberius-Group-1-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/11\/SGA-Trip-11-16_Tiberius-Group-1-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/11\/SGA-Trip-11-16_Tiberius-Group-1-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/11\/SGA-Trip-11-16_Tiberius-Group-1-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/11\/SGA-Trip-11-16_Tiberius-Group-1-133x100.jpeg 133w, https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/11\/SGA-Trip-11-16_Tiberius-Group-1.jpeg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 311px) 100vw, 311px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1766\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/11\/Tiberius-and-Bus-Driver-SGA-Trip-11-16-24-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Tiberius and Bus Driver SGA Trip\u00a0\u2013 Joseph Scanlon, Ph.D., an associate professor of political science, is shown seated in the driver's seat inside of the MCC\u00a0bus, smiling at the camera and holding up the\u00a0paper cutout Tiberius.\" width=\"209\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/11\/Tiberius-and-Bus-Driver-SGA-Trip-11-16-24-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/11\/Tiberius-and-Bus-Driver-SGA-Trip-11-16-24-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/11\/Tiberius-and-Bus-Driver-SGA-Trip-11-16-24-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/11\/Tiberius-and-Bus-Driver-SGA-Trip-11-16-24-75x100.jpeg 75w, https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/11\/Tiberius-and-Bus-Driver-SGA-Trip-11-16-24-rotated.jpeg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiberius headed to Syracuse with nine members of the Student Government Association for the SUNY Student Assembly Fall Leadership Conference, knowing a secret\u2014they were going to come home with an award! The MCC SGA received the SUNY Student Assembly President\u2019s Award for Civic Engagement. Jodi Oriel, Student Life Advisor, nominated MCC\u2019s SGA for their extraordinary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,104],"tags":[5,109,105],"class_list":["post-1768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news","category-travels-with-tiberius","tag-suny","tag-sga","tag-travels-with-tiberius"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1768"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1780,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions\/1780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}