In the past few weeks the College of Wooster has hosted White House-sponsored youth round tables. The purpose of these roundtables is to discuss the nation’s biggest issues and start to brainstorm ideas to solve these issues for the future of our country.
The College has been incredibly receptive to these White House sponsored discussions. The booking of rooms and application process was easy because the campus as a whole was eager to see that students facilitated conversations take place. Grades were not a consideration when choosing participants, but instead the SGA executive board took into account the activities applicants participated in and their commitment to the causes under discussion.
The first roundtable was particularly successful. Participation was not an issue and everyone was very committed to the discussion. Even though participants had planned for the round table to only be an hour, it ended up lasting an hour and 45 minutes.† The second† roundtable was just as successful.
The group was lucky enough to get USDA State Director Steve Maurer to be the administrative representative. Professor Moledina was also present to add insight into the discussion about social entrepreneurship.