Committees of the Student Senate

Academic Affairs Committee

Aaron Lawson, Chair

The Academic Affairs Committee handles all academic-related issues that involve students on campus.  The committee serves as the students' representative voice at faculty, Board of Trustee, and other administrative meetings. Our most recent work includes evaluating the proposed revisions to our current Honor Code.

Budget Management Committee

Alex Ferraro, Chair

The BMC ensures efficient management of Student Senate funds, documents all financial transactions and allocates funds to Student Senate's recognized organizations. The BMC advises Student Senate concerning proposals for additional funds. The BMC also educates Senate recognized organizations as to the policies of Financial Services and fiscal responsibility.

College Life Advisory Committee

Kevin Schmidt, Chair 

The College Life Advisory Committee works closely with the College Life Office to offer feedback on policies developed by the office. CLAC holds in depth discussions on campus issues that are of concern to the students in an attempt to find ways to make changes and improvements. The group reviews campus programming to offer insight and continue to help improve college policies.

Events Planning Committee

Andrew Ferreira, Chair 

The purpose of Events Planning is to create and promote school spirit through Student Senate activities. When necessary, the committee should work with the Campus Activities Board and Senate Recognized Organizations to support event planning and programming around campus. The committee is also responsible for organization of internal events held by Senate.

Information Technology Committee

Sam Alo, Chair

Public Relations Committee 

Shenikua Mcgann, Chair 

The Public Relations Committee works to announce and publicize all Student Senate activities around campus. Our means of communication usually include creating posters, flyers, mailbox flyers, chalk signs, sheet signs, newspaper articles in the Gettysburgian, campus digest postings, Senate website posting, and WZBT ads. These services can be utilized by all Senate recognized clubs and organizations.

Rules & Regulations Committee

Nick Redmen, Chair 

The Rules & Regulations Committee acts to ensure that Senate is operating within the scope of the Senate Constitution. R&R is also responsible for the Annual Constitutional Review as well as educating the Senate body in matters of parliamentary procedure.

Deparment of Public Safety Committee

Ankit , Chair 

The primary role is to create open communication between the Department of Public Safety and the student body by giving complaints, suggestions and compliments both to students and the Department. We strive to make campus a better place to live. It is the responsibility of the committee to correspond with the Public Safety Liaison and invite him/her to the committee meeting.

Student Concerns Committee

Kurt Hageman, Chair 

The Student Concerns Committee is responsible for having conversations with the Student Body to identify their concerns regarding non-academic and non-security issues. They will work with the Academic Affairs Committee and the Security Committee as necessary. All concerns should be addressed in a timely manner, and no concern should ever be regarded as a stupid concern.

Sustainability Committee

Emma Snellings, Chair