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It’s Never Too Late to Find Your Community: The Importance of Campus Involvement Jermaine Ball 60
For many, feelings of isolation and homesickness are one of the most daunting things students face in college. No matter if they’re in-state or out-of-state students, college is a new chapter in their lives that comes with new feelings of uncertainty, doubt and sometimes outright fear. One of the best ways to combat these feelings though is to get yourself involved on campus. While this can be intimidating to put yourself out there, it’s one of the best ways to alleviate those feelings of isolation while you’re at the University of Alabama. Whether you are looking to become an active member in a student organization, volunteer or otherwise, the University has plenty of opportunities for students who share similar interests, or who may be going through the same things that you are. “There’s no one way to be a UA student,” said Rosalind Moore-Miller, the assistant vice president for student engagement. “That way is multifaceted and unique to every student, and we have to recognize that, not try to chart the path that we see someone else charting.” Miller also encourages students of color specifically to actively seek out spaces in which they will feel comfortable, and to create those spaces if they don’t already exist. At a school where, according to UA’s Office of Institutional Research and Assessment, only about 11% of the student population is Black, it’s important that Black students find those spaces that feel familiar and safe to them. “I would just encourage students to think about that early, and often find ways to see themselves represented in the opportunities, activities and spaces that they’re in and if they don’t see that, create it,” Miller said. There is one primary entity on campus that is dedicated to helping students chart their own paths and that’s The Source. The Source is the provider of resources, support and recognition for student organizations at the University. According to the Source’s website, they oversee over 600 student organizations. They host Get on Board Day at the beginning of each new school year where they feature all student organizations in an effort to expose students to all the opportunities that are available for them to get involved. Even with all the involvement opportunities at students’ disposal, there could be many reasons why they still don’t feel motivated to get involved on campus. “Every semester I went through something drastic,” said Ursula Lindsey, a senior majoring in human environmental sciences. Lindsey was dealing with a litany of personal issues in her first couple years of college. However, she did not let life deter her from achieving her goals. As she prepares for graduation later in December, she recalled an encouraging conversation she had with one of her favorite professors during the second semester of her junior year. “Last semester I had a great professor, Sarah Berger, and she was talking about professional development and how you should get involved in school,” Lindsey said. “I was like, I’m a senior now and I was thinking it’s too late, it’s over for me, but she really helped push me through.” Camryn Smith, a first-year graduate student in public health, agreed that students shouldn’t allow themselves to think their time to get involved has passed. “Get rid of the lock that a timeline has on you,” Smith said. “That’s what I would say to a freshman every time and talk to people.” This is a sentiment shared among many students and it helps that every year there are new organizations being formed, which means there are always new ways for students, more specifically students of color, to get involved. “I think that it’s very important for people to get involved on campus, especially people of color,” said Samiya Jones, a sophomore majoring in marketing. “I think UA does a really good job of having things every day for people to get involved, like the Alabama Pearls. That’s a new organization.” The Alabama Pearls launched this year and is a professional development organization within the College of Communication and Information Sciences aimed towards young Black women to provide resources to be successful in professional environments. Students owe it to themselves to make the most out of the time they have here. These years will go by faster than you think, and the last thing anyone wants is to be a day removed from walking across the graduation stage and then suddenly realizing that they haven’t taken full advantage of their time in college. 61
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