Kevin Evans, special education junior and Student Government Association vice president, is currently working on getting information from the math, science and language labs centralized on one website in order to save students time from having to visit multiple sites.
“I feel that it is beneficial to students to have all of these resources located in one place instead of having to click around a bunch of different links,” Evans said. “Right now, if you go to the Student Development Center website on the left hand side, you have to go all the way down to the bottom of the page.”
Math, language and science are not the only labs offered at IU Southeast.
“There is also an accounting group and communications group that do labs, which many students do not know about,” Evans said.
Evans said he also believes it would be beneficial for students to know how to become a tutor or supplemental instructor in the areas in which these are needed.
“It’s important for students to know the resources available to them on campus, and, also, the ways they can get involved — that includes tutoring, [Supplementary Instruction] and involvement in the centers,” Evans said.
Evans said most students are not aware of some of the rewards that come with becoming an SI or tutor.
“Some students don’t know that if you become an SI you get $900 a semester for each class you teach,” Evans said. “Tutors get paid $10 an hour.”
Evans said there are not any problems with the current labs; however, there is no central site that directs students to these locations on the web.
“Having a central website for resources will give students a one -stop-shop to find out about all of the resources available through the Development Center,” Evans said.
Rather than consolidating all of the labs onto one of the old sites, Evans said they are working on restructuring a whole new website for all of these services. The centers for these labs will not be affected.
“We are not combining the labs to one area,” Evans said. “We are only working on a new website, restructuring it and making it a lot more attractive for our students.”
In order to see this project through, Evans said he will have to work with the Student Development Center to get it finished.
Ryan Norwood, academic resource coordinator for the Student Development Center, said he thinks Evans has a good idea, and he is determining what is needed in order to complete the project.
Doug Denton, coordinator for the Student Development Center, said he is the one who will actually do the restructuring of the site.
“He’ll come up with the concept and whole new look, basically following the ideas of what I’ve outlined,” Evans said.
Norwood said he also emphasized this is not about putting all the labs on one website but rather all the information for these labs on one central site.
“I do want to stress that this is only dealing with the way information is found about current services already offered,” Norwood said.
While this is a work in progress, Evans said nothing has been directly decided on yet.
Evans also said the SGA plans on running a large campaign to advocate for this project.
“It’s the awareness factor and getting that put out there,” Evans said. “It’s our responsibility as a student government because students need those services in order to be successful in the classroom.”
By TAYLOR FERGUSON
Staff
tayfergu@ius.edu
