Lessons Learned: Practice What You "Teach"

When gathering feedback, it is important we remember to use it! Within RAPP, we frequently ask for feedback from our participants. We, as a facilitation team, then spend hours pouring over this and making appropriate updates. In some recent feedback we received, the group expressed what keeps them engaged as learners. As a program, we need to make sure we practice these things in our sessions.

Too often we are tasked with giving feedback and then....nothing. For me, many of the course evaluations I completed as a student are the first things that comes to mind when thinking of underutilized feedback. It is interesting to me that many colleges wonder why course evaluation participation is so low when the reason seems to be glaringly apparent.

Know that if RAPP asks for your feedback, it will be used!

Lessons Learned is a RAPP Blog initiative intended for folks who hold formal leadership positions in RAPP programs to share what they're learning through their process

Shades of You Seeking Feedback!

From Shades of You:

On Behalf of Shadesof You I would like to officially welcome you all to a brand new year and thank you for your loyal support. We have a lot planned for you all this semester with new programs, community service opportunities, collaborations and social events!

One goal of Shades of You is to constantly improve as an organization so that we can better serve you all and the general public. With that being said we would love any feedback you all have for us regarding the year thus far. We have prepared a short survey monkey and the smallest of feedback whether you have been involved or not would be helpful!!

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ZYT3PFL

Good luck this semester and thank you again for your support, we are excited to see you all at our first event of the year!
If you have any questions please feel free to email us at shadesofyouuc@gmail.com

Be Sure to follow us on Twitter @Shades_of_you ! And Tell a friend!

Happy New Year!
Shades Love,

Alexandria M. Johnson

We'd Love Your Thoughts the RAPP 25 Year Reunion

Survey responses have been coming in steadily about the RAPP 25 Year Reunion.  Already I've learned some great things about what people thought worked and what we could do better next time - as well as some great ideas for the years in between.  Please keep the feedback coming!

If you were able to attend the reunion, please take a few minutes to complete this survey.  If you're a RAPPer who wasn't able to or didn't want to attend, we'd also love to learn from you about that - please take a few minutes to complete this survey.

Maurice H (VI) and Elmann C (X) checking out the photo table decorations.

Seeking Feedback on the RAPP 25 Year Reunion

The RAPP 25 Year Reunion was held just over one week ago - and it's still a hot topic around these parts!

The committee that planned the event would like some feedback from the RAPP community and are collecting it in two surveys:

Over 100 people were able to participate in the reunion!  We'd love to hear from those people what they like about the event as well as what could have been improved.  If you were able to attend, please take a few minutes to complete this survey.

For the 500 or so RAPP alumni who weren't able to attend, we'd love to learn how to make the event more accessible, affordable, or desirable in the future.  If you're a RAPPer who wasn't able to or didn't want to attend, we'd love to learn from you about that - please take a few minutes to complete this survey.

We'll repost this a few times to get as much feedback as possible!  We're also looking forward to posting "official" event photos soon - as soon as they come in from the photographer!

UC Vice President Dr. Mitchel Livingston, Kimberly McGinnis Bonner (VIII), and Kaila Noland (XXVI) smiled for a snapshot!