Over the past few years the Staff Senate has set about listing our top five goals, and every year we come up with four basic themes. The first and most obvious is always salaries. Everyone on campus understands that this is a problem. There is no easy fix for this, but I think that things are at least headed in the right direction. The next three themes seem to always be communication, participation and community.
Communication is vital to the running of any successful, healthy organization.
High employee morale, a better learning environment and just plain old feeling good can t happen if we do not like where we are and who we are with. Staff Senate is constantly striving to better the communication between itself and the rest of campus. This is not always easy. Many staff members still do not have access to computers. But, this is improving Through the efforts of last year s Staff Senate President, Karen Reasoner, and Steve Deines and George Krell of the Physical Plant, kiosk computers were installed in the Physical Plant to allow greater access to some of the employees who don t have computers on their desk.