In this week’s Student Government Association (SGA) meeting, the Senate visited the R.R. Moton Museum and had a discussion on the ‘art of inclusion’.
In lieu of an actual Senate meeting, the Senate was able to go to the museum, which is located at 900 Griffin Boulevard in town. Executive Senator for Committee Relations Sky Sweeney organized the event.
The Senate started off with a guided tour of the museum from Leah Brown, assistant director of education. They were taken through each room and were given a brief background on the history of the museum and education in Prince Edward County. They were welcome to ask questions and fully engage in the topic.
Afterwards, the Senate went back into the main area where they were greeted by Jonathan Page, director of multicultural affairs at Longwood, and Quincy Goodine, assistant director of leadership development. They began a discussion surrounding the values of everyone on senate and SGA as a whole.
To do this, the senate completed a “values sheet” where they were given a list of values and they had to circle all that were important to them, then they had to narrow it down to ten, then five that they value the most. After this, they discussed their similarities and differences and how they can use them as a senate moving forwards.
Page said to senate, “You all are the campus’ voice. You are the voice of often times the marginalized voices, as well as the voices of the boisterous and loud voices.”
Page and Goodine went on to hold a discussion on how to be more inclusive not only as a senate body, but also as a campus as a whole. The senate was invited to share opinions in an open, safe space.
The next SGA meeting will take place on Tuesday, Feb. 11 at 3:45 p.m. inside of the Wilson Chamber at the Upchurch University Center.
Quincy Goodine leading the conversation about virtues present in our identities.
