Board Blog: Mission Accomplished!

The CBI Board of Directors last week held its annual retreat at the Hyatt Regency Minneapolis, site of the upcoming National Student Electronic Media Convention. The venue and the surrounding neighborhood are tremendous and we are primed to have our best convention ever.

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Greg Weston, CBI President

But, aside from convention planning, the Board dealt with a number of other organizational issues. To me, the most important was the creation and adoption of a new mission statement. It now reads:

CBI is a member-driven organization serving students and advisers of college and high school electronic media outlets. Through events, programs and a network of expertise, we provide our members with educational and professional development opportunities and facilitate advocacy.

While containing many elements present in our previous mission statement, I believe this is a big improvement and a great statement of what CBI offers to its members and the larger student electronic media community. The Board spent hours on this, and every word is intentional. So when we call ourselves “member-driven,” use terms like “serving,” and enumerate areas of focus such as “professional development” and “advocacy,” rest assured that the Board is not just giving lip service but is truly committed to leading CBI with these principles.

I am confident that, as leadership changes over the years, this mission statement will remain a touchstone that will help guide future Boards.

Briefly, here are a few other outcomes from the retreat:

• A fully electronic voting process for future elections.
• A change in the start date of the Student Member’s term to more closely approximate the school year, to be implemented in the next election cycle.
• Development of future priorities, each delegated to Board members for completion in one, three, or five years.
• Creation of an organizational master calendar enumerating the responsibilities of all Board members and coordinators.

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