Don’t Forget Your Senator

Richard Poll wrote a great piece on the executive council positions and their candidates, but he failed to mention the college senators. There are a lot of positions to become informed about, but one that you really should focus some extra effort on is the race for your college’s senator.

At other universities, the equivalent of our college senator position is called something exceedingly more relevant: the college student body president. That’s a much better description of what we are. Our sphere of influence is smaller than the officers on executive council, but that influence is laser-focused on the college we represent. Aside from planning the college week, senators communicate with college administration to provide input on changes, give feedback on plans related to the college, provide an avenue for student concerns to reach the top levels of administration, and collaborate with the rest of the senators to foster university-wide academic change.

Your college senator will likely have more influence on your life as a student than almost any other officer. Give them five minutes of your time to make sure you choose the one that will best represent you. It’ll make a world of difference.

-Nadir Tekarli is the 2016-2017 USUSA Huntsman School of Business Senator

@NadirTekarli