Associated Students Incorporated (ASI) held an open forum to discuss topics concerning students including parking and student success on Feb. 24.

The Board of Directors held a panel to discuss what they have been working on during the 2014-2015 academic school year.

The board discuessed their motioned to advocate for athlete priority registration, the ASI scholarship and looking for a student to represent the Stockton Center.

The board also covered parking issues and addressed the AD Hoc parking task force committee.

The students in the committee would like to have a standing parking committee to be available when issues do come up regarding parking.

One of the recommendations they feel would best fit for students’ needs, is to have tiered-parking permits.

The further the parking spots the cheaper the permit, but if student want to park closer the costwould increase.

The board also discussed that many of the decisions were based on the assumption of 1.5 percent enrollment increase in the future.

They know that increasing parking fees will make students find other locations to park on.

“Students expressed their concerns about how parking has affected them as well as brought up ideas that could potentially improve the parking system on our campus,” Victor Flores, ASI Student Government Coordinator, said.

Before the panel opened up, booths lining the walls of the Event Center offered information on numerous programs available for students.

This was a way to showcase a variety of resources that could better inform students on how to succeed while in college.

“I hope they got information about what resources are out there for students to help them succeed and they are well informed of all the issues ASI has been tackling to show our students do have a voice,” Flores said.

Near the end of the forum, the board did bring up that they would be starting a student success campaign that will allow them to understand what student success means.

“Well with the student campaign we aim to see how students define success,” Flores said.

“Currently the school has their definition of student success but we felt we should ask the students too, so that we may come to an agreement and see exactly what they define their success as. Through this campaign we should have a clearer definition of what success means to them and what we can do to achieve their success.”