| Article 2: Student Senate
Composition | Election
of Senate Membership | Duties of an
ASSP Senator | Meetings | Removal
of Senators
Section 1: Composition
The representative branch of the ASSP shall be the Student
Senate. Voting members shall include the following:
- Moyer (1);
- Emerson (pending official name) (1);
- Hill (1);
- Ashton (1);
- Robbins (1);
- Campus Houses and Apartments (2);
- Commuter (3);
- College of Arts and Sciences: Fine Arts (1);
- College of Arts and Sciences: Humanities (1);
- College of Arts and Sciences: Science and Engineering
(1);
- College of Arts and Sciences: Social and Behavioral
Sciences (1);
- School of Business and Economics (1);
- School of Education (1);
- School of Health Sciences (1);
- School of Psychology, Family and Community (1);
- School of Theology (1);
- At large (2);
- Intercultural (1);
- ASSP President
- Executive Vice President*;
- Vice President of Campus Ministries;
- Vice President of Campus Activities;
- Vice President of Finance.
Each residence hall Senator shall serve the dual role of ASSP Senator and the responsibilities outlined in their residence hall constitution. Campus Housing and Commuter senators must maintain their residencies for the entire term. Academic senators must maintain an affiliation with their academic school or college they represented remaining a declared or intended major or minor. The school of Education and Nursing senators must maintain registration their academic program.
Non-voting members shall include the Chief Student Life Officer, or designate, and a Faculty representative.
*The Executive Vice President shall be a non-voting member of the Senate, unless a tie vote occurs in Senate, as stated in Bylaw Article II, Section 1, Responsibilities, Senate and Committees.
Section 2: Election
of Senate Membership
Candidates must be members of the ASSP in good standing
with a cumulative grade point average of 2.5 or higher.
Candidates shall be elected by secret ballot during spring
quarter to serve a one-year term, beginning June of the
election year. Candidates receiving a plurality vote shall
assume membership. In the event of a tie, a subsequent election
shall be held within the following two academic class days.
Elections procedures are governed by the Elections Task
Force as certified by majority approval of the Senate. Membership
vacancies may be filled by the respective constituency within
five (5) days of said vacancy; if not so done, vacancy shall
be filled from the respective constituency by appointment
of the Senate Appointment Committee (SAC), subject to Senate
approval.
A senator candidate is considered affiliated with a college or school by fulfilling the following criteria:
- A senator candidate must be at least an intended major or minor within a college or school, and
- The senator candidate, prior to applying, must have completed at least two classes within a school or college area of study. Two exceptions are the nursing senator and the Education senator. The nursing senator must be accepted into the nursing program and the education senator must be registered in a School of Education academic program.
Section 3: Duties
of an ASSP Senator
The Senate shall determine and supervise all policy and
business of the ASSP in promotion of a coordinated program
throughout institutional governance. All powers necessary
and proper to the achievement of the above, not enumerated
elsewhere, shall rest with the Senate.
- Every Senator is required to actively serve on a Senate committee.
- Every Senator is required to sponsor or co-sponsor at least one proposal during their term or office.
- In order to promote Senate and make it more accessible to the student body, each Senator is to bring a visitor a quarter from their constituency.
- One absence per quarter is to be tolerated. One additional absence may be permitted by the Executive Vice President but any further absences are to be excused by the Senate body.
- In order to ensure constituency awareness, every Senator is expected to be in communication with their constituency on a regular basis. This may include, but is not limited to, quarterly constituent meetings, frequent and intentional face to face communication, and regular availability to meet with constituents to hear concerns.
Section 4: Meetings
The Senate shall meet weekly throughout the fall, winter,
and spring quarters. Special meetings may be called upon
by petition of a majority of the Senate or by the President.
All meetings shall be open to any member of the ASSP who
shall have the right of recognition by the Chair. Quorum
shall consist of a two-thirds (2/3) majority of the filled
Senate positions.
Section 5: Removal
of Senators
The Student Senate shall provide for a recall vote of any
ASSP Senator whenever petitioned by one-fourth (25%) of
the respective constituency in said recall election.
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