[2002-2003][2003-2004]

2003-2004
The 2003-04 PSOA Black and Gold Committee is charged with the following tasks:

• Identifying extracurricular opportunities for students, such as visiting artists programs, field trips, master classes participations, professional career skill development workshop.
• Working on developing exhibition and performance venues with community partners to showcase student work.
• Advising the dean on which curricular, extra-curricular, and technical needs should be supported by funds generated through the imposition of differential tuition.
• Improving and expanding student assessment of courses, instructors, and programs.

2002-2003
The following is a list of ideas and questions that were developed and discussed at the first two meetings of the PSOA Black & Gold Committee:

• Create a school-wide event where students from all departments might exhibit and perform in order to bridge disciplinary and departmental separateness.
• Create a school "First Friday" every month to be hosted on a rotational basis by the school's departments in order to highlight, inform, and share program activities with students, staff, and faculty beyond their department.
• Develop the school's participation in the fall convocation into a school wide meeting for all students (not just new freshman and transfers) that could include sign-up for peer mentoring and discussion of or workshops on topics such as time management, what it means to be an arts major, and exhibition and performance opportunities.
• Create a spring semester "kick-off" event for new and returning students
• Create a "send-off" event and an undergraduate thesis show for all graduating seniors.
• Create school wide social events for students, such as a Halloween party.
• Create a survey to measure incoming student expectations.
• How can the school minimize "shock" to new students making the transition from high school to the university and the demands of our school curriculum?
• How can students' progress toward timely graduation improve?