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Student Priorities Worksheet


What Are We Hearing From Students?

Your SG will hear a lot of different opinions. Keep track of them.

After you've talked with several students, look back at your notes. Are certain issues coming up again and again?

10 Minutes. One Student. One Conversation.

What Are Students Telling Us?

What we're hearing How often have we heard it? Who are we hearing it from?
     
     
     

What Keeps Coming Up?

Which issues or ideas have come up more than once?

What Surprised Us?

Did students bring up something we weren't expecting?

What Do We Need to Know More About?

Is there something we should ask more students about before deciding what to do?

Possible SG Priorities

Issue or idea What have we heard? What could SG do?
     
     
     

Before We Make It an SG Priority

How many students have we heard this from?

Have we talked with students outside our usual group?

Do we understand the problem well enough?

Is this something Student Government can influence?

What else do we need to find out?

Keep Listening

Don't let one conversation determine your agenda.

Talk with more students. See what you hear.


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