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Missouri schools unite to lobby government
Megan Henderson
Issue date: 2/18/08 Section: News
Two other important issues discussed at the February meeting were campus sustainability and getting students involved politically, Kloeppel said.
"As students, we should desire change and these two action items would enable us to accomplish that," she said. "After meeting with leaders from other campuses, we were inspired to create programs on our campus that would remain after we had left UMKC." She and McClain are currently brainstorming ways to do this, she said.
In the SGA meeting last Wednesday, McGee discussed the trip with the Student Senate.
"They were all very supportive of the issues of healthcare and tuition for veterans," he said. "Tara and I got to speak with the Speaker of the House. … It was a really good venture."
In a later interview, McGee said he and Kloeppel met with the Senate caucus chairwoman, the speaker pro tem and other state legislators.
"[Tara and I] were introduced on the floor of the Senate for what we were doing," he said.
The MHEC is unique, McClain said, and he hopes the unified group of students from across the state will be able to affect change.
"There's been no organization that we know of that has unified all the public universities in the state of Missouri," McClain said. "…It's more effective when you have a larger constituency."
mhenderson@unews.com
"As students, we should desire change and these two action items would enable us to accomplish that," she said. "After meeting with leaders from other campuses, we were inspired to create programs on our campus that would remain after we had left UMKC." She and McClain are currently brainstorming ways to do this, she said.
In the SGA meeting last Wednesday, McGee discussed the trip with the Student Senate.
"They were all very supportive of the issues of healthcare and tuition for veterans," he said. "Tara and I got to speak with the Speaker of the House. … It was a really good venture."
In a later interview, McGee said he and Kloeppel met with the Senate caucus chairwoman, the speaker pro tem and other state legislators.
"[Tara and I] were introduced on the floor of the Senate for what we were doing," he said.
The MHEC is unique, McClain said, and he hopes the unified group of students from across the state will be able to affect change.
"There's been no organization that we know of that has unified all the public universities in the state of Missouri," McClain said. "…It's more effective when you have a larger constituency."
mhenderson@unews.com
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