VOICE/BSVSA Collaboration Trip Fall 2019

LSU and Auburn VOICE/BSVSA clubs met at Dauphin Island August 31 – September 2, 2019

Saturday the clubs met for lunch in Theodore, Alabama. After that we checked into our Airbnb house Saturday afternoon.

A grocery list was made for the weekend and meals were planned. Groceries were bought at a local store by a small group while the rest stayed to unpack, settle in, and study since the LSU students had a test Tuesday morning.

Saturday evening the clubs met for their collaboration meeting. We reintroduced ourselves to each other with our club roles and an interesting fact about ourselves. At the meeting many beneficial things were discussed such as the different meetings/events held at each school and the differences in student/faculty/school reception of these events. Speaker names and ideas were also swapped. Numerous other topics about various diversity and inclusivity issues were also discussed such as how racial, sexual, gender, etc. outreach and education was handled. Planning for the regional Southeastern Diversity Conference was also discussed since Auburn will be hosting it this upcoming Spring and a few students from LSU had attended the last one in Spring 2018 at the University of Tennessee.

Sunday was spent getting to know each other better and swapping personal stories at the beach and at the house. Some more studying was also done and later after dinner we played Just Dance and had a lot of goofy entertainment from that activity.