STANDING COMMITTEES

All planning, logistics, and further exploration of specific issues and topics are handled by committees, which are the backbone of the Senate. These committees are led by a Chairperson appointed by the bylaws or Executive Council. Senators must be part of at least two committees.

ADMINISTRATION & FINANCE

  • Develops and improves the organizational skills, communication, group dynamics, process, etc. of the Student Senate
  • Shapes, reviews, and assesses the Senate Annual Budget and the Three-Year Plan
  • Administrates the expenditure of the Senate budget
  • The Student Activities Board, with the approval of the Student Senate, sets the fiscal budget of the student organizations
  • Other tasks are set by the individual Chairman or the direction of the Executive Council.

PUBLIC RELATIONS

  • Communicates with the student body and the campus community
  • Responsible for the visibility of the Student Senate
  • Deals with publications, events, displays, promotional branding, and other public relations-related matters
  • Other tasks are set by the individual Chairman or the direction of the Executive Council

TEAM DEVELOPMENT

  • Shapes, reviews, and assesses the Senate Annual Budget and the Three-Year Plan
  • Develops and improves the organizational skills, communication, group dynamics, process, etc. of the Student Senate
  • Plans and implements new member orientation, team building, skill building and retreats throughout the year
  • Other tasks are set by the individual Chairman or the direction of the Executive Council.

LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS

  • Organizes any lobbying, including the delegation to the annual Wisconsin Student Government Legislative Seminar
  • Informs the student body about elections and legislative activity that may affect them
  • Any legislative matters is lead by this Committee
  • Reviews & recommends changes to the constitution/Bylaws
  • Helps enforce policies, and so forth.

COLLEGE ASSEMBLY

The College Assembly is the shared-governance system that governs the decision-making of the College. The Assembly reviews policy recommendation from the College Councils and votes on whether to send it to the President's Cabinet where it will be ratified or rejected.

PURPOSE

  • Oversee, manage, and review the shared governance process.
  • Assist in ensuring that college-wide policymaking and policy implementation is consistent with the mission, vision, values, and strategic directions of the college.
  • Serve as a forum where issues of college-wide importance can be sent for review, examination, formulation, discussion, and resolution in a collegial fashion.
  • Serve as the Shared Governance liaison to the President.
  • Communicate deliberations and recommendations to the President and the college community.
  • Make recommendations for revisions of the strategic directions of the college.
  • Make final recommendations regarding the college budget plan.
  • Solicit issues to review and make appropriate referrals to councils.
  • Prioritize issues to review.
  • Establish effective and ongoing communication and collaboration between and among shared governance councils.
  • Review recommendations on new policies or changes to policies from the councils.
  • Forward recommendations concerning policies to the President.
  • Conduct campus forums at least once per semester to air and discuss issues that are important to the college community and determine the suitability of addressing them through the shared governance process; and
  • Review recommendations for the creation of new councils to determine their role and effect within the Shared Governance system.

COUNCILS

  • Academic
  • Facilities Planning & Investment
  • Finance
  • Information Technology
  • Student Affairs