2008 Woodie Awards
Providence Student Voice Getting Students Heard
Sara Beth Labanara '11
Issue date: 10/2/08 Section: News
Bug problems in dorms, library hours, shuttle services, and campus fire alarms are just a few of the discussion topics posted on the Providence Student Voice Facebook group, one of the newest unofficial groups on campus. Cofounded by Allison Ferlito '10 and Andrew Charles Potter Kelley '10, the group focuses on providing another outlet besides Student Congress for students to address their concerns about various problems at Providence College. Accomplished through Internet posts with the option of anonymity, as well as weekly forums, the group aims to strengthen the voice of PC students in order to make lasting changes on campus.
"We felt there was a need for a different sort of outlet for kids to bring up issues and try to take a different approach in order to get some things done on campus," said Ferlito.
The group feels it is important that all students have a voice and are not intimidated to discuss their concerns. This is accomplished via the Facebook group. Providence Student Voice also plans on creating open forums on a weekly basis starting within the next month.
"Right now we're still putting together the organizational steps into running this as an unofficial group here," said Kelley.
Despite their recent beginnings as a group, co-founders have had little trouble defining their goals as an organization. PSV is concerned with eliminating the intimidation that goes along with approaching large on-campus organizations.
"Our top priority is to make sure every single student has a voice. We think that there's an issue with some of the groups on campus because students are intimidated to approach them. We want an open forum where we can try to tackle different issues even just to get some opinions out there," said Ferlito.
The group has embraced the positive feedback it has received so far from students. Their Facebook group has attained 282 members and continues to grow. The group is also on its way to creating a Web site. Within the next week the organization also plans on creating an executive board.
"We felt there was a need for a different sort of outlet for kids to bring up issues and try to take a different approach in order to get some things done on campus," said Ferlito.
The group feels it is important that all students have a voice and are not intimidated to discuss their concerns. This is accomplished via the Facebook group. Providence Student Voice also plans on creating open forums on a weekly basis starting within the next month.
"Right now we're still putting together the organizational steps into running this as an unofficial group here," said Kelley.
Despite their recent beginnings as a group, co-founders have had little trouble defining their goals as an organization. PSV is concerned with eliminating the intimidation that goes along with approaching large on-campus organizations.
"Our top priority is to make sure every single student has a voice. We think that there's an issue with some of the groups on campus because students are intimidated to approach them. We want an open forum where we can try to tackle different issues even just to get some opinions out there," said Ferlito.
The group has embraced the positive feedback it has received so far from students. Their Facebook group has attained 282 members and continues to grow. The group is also on its way to creating a Web site. Within the next week the organization also plans on creating an executive board.
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