Macalester/Program Board

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a PB event poster emphasizing professional quality
a PB event poster emphasizing professional quality

The Program Board (PB for short) is a programming organization at Macalester, established in 2002 by Miguel Nieto to secure annual funds for large all-campus events (chiefly Springfest). It has since then expanded to a team of 9 officers who coordinate volunteers to organize events in all aspects of campus life.


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PB office interior
PB office interior
PB office entrance
PB office entrance
PB board
PB board


Office located between Eichhorn Student Activities Center and SORC, in the second floor of the Campus Center

[edit] Political Power

PB collaborates closely with MCSG and Campus Programs and receives advicing by Tara Stormoen and Kelsey Richardson. The PB Chair became a voting member at the MCSG after the April 2004 referendum, and is today considered part of the MCSG Executive Board.

The Chair, the position with most voice (although not formally so) within PB, is elected during the MCSG Executive Board elections in April, and is usually uncontested. Generally the Chair has worked in PB as a Committee Coordinator in the previous year - for example, Erin K. Miller (2004) was Publicity Coordinator during 2003; Will Clarke (2005) was Diversity Coordinator during 2004.

[edit] Budget

The PB has a fixed annual budget of $100,000 which uses to subsidize its own activities and other activities that PB may work in collaboration with. Funding decisions are made by a vote of the Chair and the six Committee Coordinators.

Every spring, approximately $40,000 of these funds are allocated to the Springfest annual concert.

[edit] Events

See http://macalester.edu/pb/archives.html for more info

[edit] Organizational Structure

Once the new Chair is elected, she opens an application process for Committee Coordinators, which involves a written application and a formal interview with a staff advisor and one of the PB officers. Emphasis is put on the ability to carry tasks in a professional manner

Committees are run quite autonomously by their respective coordinators. Each Coordinator is trained by Campus Programs staff during the summer previous to their serving term, and holds its own weekly or biweekly meetings with Committee Volunteers and maintains communication through an informal mailing list. Occassionally, Coordinators may fail to get volunteers, in which case they proceed by themselves.

[edit] MacCinema

MacCinema selects films that are shown during four screening over academic semester weekends: Fridays and Saturdays at 7:00pm and 10:00pm. It receives $6,000 every semester (independent of PB budget) to cover public screening copyright fees for 10+ films. Given that copyright permission may sometimes take a long time to arrive, MacCinema finalizes film choosing decisions two months before the end of the academic semester previous to the screening semester - this is, March and October of every year.

[edit] People 2005-06

The PB currently has one chair and nine area coordinators: Lectures, Concerts, Special Events, Diversity, MacCinema, and PR/ Marketing. MacCinema became a PB task in 2003, after the last MacCinema chair left without students willing to take the position up. Starting in 2004, an accountant and secretary are hired as work-study students; a work-study office assistant splits her time between PB and MCSG.

[edit] Officers

For more information check http://macalester.edu/pb/about.html

[edit] Committee Coordinators

[edit] People 2004-2005

[edit] Officers

[edit] Committee Coordinators

[edit] Campus Programs Staff

[edit] People 2003-04

[edit] People 2002-03

[edit] Committe Coordinators

[edit] Chairs

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