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  • Administrators, Relations With
    Find out how to get along with the administration and improve relationships. When you work together, everybody wins. Students get served and the school better fulfills its mission.
  • Advisors
    Students, earn how to make your advisor a true resource and help to your SG. Advisors, get tips on fulfilling your role successfully and working with SGs.
  • Budgets & Finance
    Trying to get financially fit? This is the place to start.
  • Constitutions
    Find out how to write a good constitution, what goes into one, and how to handle rewrite--but only if it's absolutely necessary. Check out the SG Database to see ones from other SGs.
  • Elections, Campaigns
    Learn how to run an effective and victorious SG campaign.
  • Elections, Voting
    Discover creative and practical ways to improve voter turnout.
  • Fundraising
    Discover creative and practical ways to fund SG projects, programs, and events.
  • Group Management, Member Relations
    How to get along with your team and learn to work well together.
  • Group Management, Recruiting & Retention
    Get creative ideas on attracting new members, then keeping them involved.
  • Group Management, Team-Building
    Learn to make your team a cohesive, well-oiled group that's effective and influential.
  • Improving Your SG
    What are the ingredients of Super SGs? Learn from our recipe for success.
  • Issues and Advocacy
    Get lobbying tips and advice on how to be a strong advocate for your students and causes.
  • Leadership, Ethics
    Ethical leadership has never been more important. Find out how you can become a leader of honor.
  • Leadership, Techniques
    Learn to become a more effective leader for your group.
  • Leadership, Training & Development
    Get ideas on how to make sure your team is ready and eager to accomplish great things this year.
  • Lobbying
    ASGA doesn't lobby, but we point you to every possible national, regional, and statewide group that does.
  • Media, Legal Issues
    Your campus press is vital--and constitutionally protected. Learn how to live peaceably with your paper.
  • Media, Press Coverage
    The campus press can be your ally--if you view them more as a partner than a nuisance.
  • Media, Relations
    Learn strategies about how to get better and more positive press and build relationships with reporters and editors.
  • Parliamentary Procedures
    How to conduct an orderly SG and meetings such as the approval of minutes, whether a chairman should vote, etc.
  • Publicity & Promotions
    Learn how to get more attention for your event or group, boost attendance, get more press, and devise creative and clever promotions that make a difference.
  • Service, Campus and Community
    Servant SGs are the most effective and influential in America. Make community service a key part of your SG's mission.
  • Structure of SGs
    What's the best SG structure? How do you choose? Find out what works nationwide.
  • Student Services/SG Programs & Events
    SGs need tangible services to prove their value and worth to fellow students. Get ideas on innovative programs that you can tailor for your campus.
  • Student/Constituents, Relations With
    Remember, students are your constituents, not a nuisance. Learn how to reach out to them efficiently and effectively.
  • Time Management
    Learn how to balance being your role as a leader with the responsibilities of being a student.
  • Transition Planning & Execution
    If you plan now for the transition between your administration and the new officers, your SG can remain effective.
  • Web Sites & Electronic Communications
    There's just no excuse for having a lame web site. Start here to learn from the best about web site design, and see the benefits of using e-mail to communicate to your officers and constituents.

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