NACA makes event choice easier

Aimee Lawton
Special to the Critic

CAB representatives attend conference to improve campus activities.

The successful activity planning of the Campus Activities Board stretches beyond the creative minds of the students on the LSC campus.

While members and other students are a great source of ideas for CAB, they are not the only source. NACA, or the National Association for Campus Activities is another useful (and professional) source that provides CAB with many of its ideas for activities.

Every year, NACA holds conferences in each of its seven designated regions across the United States. These conference sessions, lasting three days each, feature many things that can be useful tools when planning activities for college students across the country.

Each year, advisors and student members of CAB represent LSC at the NACA regional conference for the Northeast; designated for schools from Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and the Canadian Provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec.

Stephanie Tyler, Campus activities coordinator and CAB advisor said that these conferences are great because they have workshops for many things such as successful programming, organizing, and creative advertising for activities that can be done on college campuses. Tyler also said that there are a variety of different entertainers that perform at the conferences including comedians, magicians, singers, and bands.

“The entertainers that get booked at colleges are the ones that perform,” Tyler said. “You get to see how good they are before you book them.”

Tyler also said that these conferences provide great networking opportunities with other schools in the region.

“It’s a good opportunity to share ideas, and to hear about what worked for other schools and what didn’t,” Tyler said, “It’s also just a good way to get to know other people.”

Tyler, along with Laura McNaughton and five student members from CAB are traveling to Hartford, CT this week to attend the Northeastern NACA regional conference for 2008.

For additional information on NACA, you can visit their website at http://www.naca.org.