Although the fall semester will not start for nearly another five months, Cabrini’s Campus Activities and Programming (CAP) Board is already preparing for the upcoming school year.
With current members of the board either graduating or leaving for other priorities, CAP Board recently introduced four new faces to be a part of Cabrini’s primary event planning organization.
After an online application and an interview with the assistant director of the Student Engagement and Leadership (SEaL) office, CAP Board’s president and next year’s vice president, Bridget Wagner, Terri Allen, Bryanna Manning and Jade Hoffman were brought onto the 14-person team as directors for the Special, Weekend and EPIC committees.
Directors are the students behind the magic of the events. They are the ones that will create an event from head to toe, planning out all the details such as concept, location, price (if applicable) and more. Directors work in teams of two and each team is designated to a committee: Special, On-Stage, Weekend or EPIC.
Special events are events that occur Monday through Thursday and are typically in-house with a variety of different approaches. For example, they are the committee that brought the campus Taco Tuesday and Zombie Run this past year. On-stage entertainment executes anything involving performance aspects or events involving stage. If you were at the nationally televised event featuring comedienne, Tracey Ashley, you were at on on-stage event. Weekend programming keeps students busy by planning an event every weekend, whether it is created in-house or they are taking a trip to New York City to see a Broadway show. Lastly, EPIC hosts the Mr. and Miss Cabrini Pageant in the fall and plans the campus-wide EPIC week in the April.
CAP Board is structured into three tiers of hierarchy: executive board, directors and assistant programmers (APs). Exec oversees operations of the board as a whole and each member concentrates on a different function. For example, the vice president will manage the APs while the marketing chair is the go-to person for anything advertising or public relations related.
The APs are students of the Cabrini community who are not the primary planners of events but still want to help out with execution on the day of. Being an AP is a great stepping block however if students are interested in eventually becoming directors. Everyone is invited to become an AP and there is no application process.
Wagner, sophomore business administration major, started out this semester as an AP but will be next year’s co-director of Special Events. She is excited to not only learn how to plan events and expand her leadership capabilities, but to make new memories as well.
“What I am most excited about for next year is to work with a group of people that I can learn from. I want to help bring students out for a fun night so they can meet new people and create fun memories of their own,” Wagner said.
She and her fellow CAP Board rookies have already prepared their event ideas for the fall semester and have begun learning the ways of how to successfully run an event. Be sure to keep an eye out for Welcome Week in August where Wagner will be one of the first student leaders to show Cabrini what they can expect from CAP Board for the 2014-2015 school year.
