USU students can vote on change to USUSA constitution
Update Nov. 19
Both changes were passed by the student body, according to a press release sent by USUSA. The USU Blanding campus amendment received 95 percent approval and the amendments to the USUSA Academic Senate student code received 80 percent approval. These changes will go into effect as soon as possible, the press release stated.
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Utah State University students have the opportunity to vote to make two amendments to the USU Student Association constitution. The voting opened Wednesday and ends Friday.
The first amendment would add the USU Blanding campus as a “USUSA Service Region” within Regional Campus Student Government, meaning the USU main campus president would preside over the campus, but the Blanding campus would elect other representatives.
The other, titled “ECR2019-06” would grant more power to the USUSA Academic Senate to govern and make decisions within its body.
The Academic Senate change would specifically allow the group to fill vacancies of elected and appointed officers as well as “levy charges of misconduct and incompetence in office towards USUSA Academic Senate officers in addition to authorizing the USUSA hearing board to hear such cases.”
The bills were passed in the USUSA Executive Council several months ago, but must be approved by the student body before they can take effect.
Those interested in voting can do so here.
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Hello,
My name is John Swenson Harvey (ASUSU President 1985/86) back during my time in office our students rewrote the ASUSU Constitution, and got the University Senate to change the University Code to allow our proposed changes. The current overall student government structure was formed at that time. We also got the University to agree to allow students to vote on proposed fees, and that those fees would have automatic sunset dates. Additionally we got the provision that student representatives had to be on all committees involved in spending student fee monies. Such provisions were unique among the Utah universities and colleges at that time (and were incredibly rare around the country in general).
Glad to see that the student government and the students overall are still involved in fine tuning the student government’s Constitution. I wish the students and USU success, and hope the legacy of USU continues to grow and prosper within the state, nation, and world.