We feel that OEC needs to revamp itself and begin to streamline our club’s goals. Thanks to the Real Food Road Trip Gals (check out their blog here), we now have a framework in which to build up and streamline our club goals.
S.M.A.R.T. Goal Making
- Specific
- Measurable
- Ambitious
- Realistic
- Timely
These are the things that we need to be thinking about when we come up with projects that we want to tackle. Projects and our goals for these projects should also be broken down in the three following ways, in this order:
- Long Term Goals – The BIG Mission and Vision. The ultimate achievement!
- Intermediate Goals – Campaigns and major steps to come closer to completion of the long term goal
- Short Term Goals – Incremental steps towards the intermediate goals.
Here are our OEC goals:
Take Back the Tap Campaign –
Leader and Contact for project: Hana Skoblow
Long Term Goal: Stop the sale of bottle water on campus and have students understand why bottled water should not be on campus.
Intermediate Goals:
- Remove bottled water from sporting events, faculty and staff meetins, dks, java, etc.
- Pass a resolution through BSC to do this
Short Term Goals:
- Grassroots pressure
- 50 signed petitions by the end of February
- Articles about the importance of the project in the OEC blog and Roundtable
- 300 petitions along with admin support by the end of the semester
- 15 faculty allies
Composting Project –
Leader and contact for this project: Steven Jackson
Long Term Goal: Every residential and campus dining kitchen has a composting bin that is used correctly, which includes sustainable and local treatment of compost.
Intermediate Goals:
- More availabe bins on campus.
- More educational projects highlighting the importance of composting.
- Developing an actual governing system and student group that is responsible for this project.
- Be on the same page with the places that we want to compost at
- Train RA’s at the beginning of the semester to talk about how to compost.
- Compliance with housekeepers
Short Term Goals:
- More composting buckets (use the ice cream buckets and distribute around campus.)
- Create laminated info flyers to put in all kitchens/on ice cream buckets (why, how, etc)
- Decide where to place our 4th large composting bin
Other big goals/projects:
- Garden Project (on campus and off campus gardens)
- Revolving Loan Fund ($40,000) – A pool of money that you can apply for for funding for a project that will make back its cost over time.
- OEC House becomes more accessible – new meeting structures