Student Advisory Council of Georgia - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The Student Advisory Council to the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia is composed of the Student Government Presidents of the 35 public colleges and universities in the University System of Georgia

University System of Georgia

The University System of Georgia is the organizational body that includes 35 public institutions of higher learning in the U.S. state of Georgia. The System is governed by the Georgia Board of Regents. It sets goals and dictates general policy to educational institutions as well as administering...

(USG), organized to advise the Board of Regents

Georgia Board of Regents

The Georgia Board of Regents oversees the University System of Georgia as part of the state government of Georgia in the United States. The University System of Georgia is composed of all state public institutions of higher education.-History:...

, through the Chancellor, on issues that are important to students.

Membership

Representatives on the Student Advisory Council are required to be current and active students within the university system. Each president of the 35 student governments are automatically appointed as representatives upon their election at their institution, yet may assign another current member of their respective association to represent their institution on their behalf. The list of current Representatives on the Student Advisory Council can be found on the Student Advisory Council's website.

The most recent list of current Representatives for the Spring 2010 semester can also be found below .

USG University System of Georgia The University System of Georgia is the organizational body that includes 35 public institutions of higher learning in the U.S. state of Georgia. The System is governed by the Georgia Board of Regents. It sets goals and dictates general policy to educational institutions as well as administering... Institution	SGA Executive (Spring 2010)	SGA website
Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College is a State College of the University System of Georgia. Located in Tifton, Georgia, ABAC offers baccalaureate and associate degrees...	Kati Andrews	http://www.abac.edu/sga/
Albany State University Albany State University Albany State University is a four-year, state-supported, historically black university located in Albany, Georgia, United States. It is one of three HBCU's in the University System of Georgia.-History:-Establishment:...	Jazzmin V. Randall	http://asurams.edu/studentaffairs/sga/index.php
Armstong Atlantic State University	Tamer Amer	http://www.armstrong.edu/Students/activities_and_orgs/student_government_association
Atlanta Metropolitan College Atlanta Metropolitan College Atlanta Metropolitan College is a State College in the University System of Georgia.Located along the Metropolitan Parkway corridor in southwest Atlanta, Atlanta Metropolitan College is now a four-year urban, commuter campus providing an affordable education to students who primarily come from...	Jasmine Worthen
Augusta State University Augusta State University Augusta State University is a public university located in Augusta, Georgia, United States and is the oldest institution in the state of Georgia ....	Maritess Banez	http://www.aug.edu/sga/
Bainbridge College Bainbridge College Bainbridge College is a 2-year, Community College in the University System of Georgia. For more than 30 years, Bainbridge College has provided higher education to the residents of southwest Georgia...	Patricia Williams	http://www.bainbridge.edu/student/sga/sga_idx.htm
Clayton State University Clayton State University Clayton State University is a public university in Morrow, Georgia, with 6,785 students. Clayton State University is a part of the University System of Georgia....	Darius Thomas	http://adminservices.clayton.edu/sga/Default.htm
College of Coastal Georgia	Jacent â Barbaraâ Nakigudde
Columbus State University Columbus State University Columbus State University is a public institution of higher learning located in Columbus, Georgia. Founded as Columbus College in 1958, the university was established and is administered by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, and is fully accredited by the Commission on...	David Owens	http://clubs-orgs.colstate.edu/sga/
Dalton State College Dalton State College Dalton State College, also referred to as DSC or Dalton State, is one of eight state colleges in the University System of Georgia; it is also one of four University System units with a Technical Division supervised by the separate Technical College System of Georgia...	Daniel Sanchez	http://sites.google.com/site/daltonstatesga/
Darton College Darton College Darton College is now a four-year state college unit of the University System of Georgia, located in Albany, Dougherty County, Georgia, U.S. The college has 84 two-year transfer and career associate degrees and 49 certificate programs.- History :...	Jesse Jaime
East Georgia College East Georgia College East Georgia College is a state college of the University System of Georgia. Located in the rural city of Swainsboro, the college serves Emanuel, Bulloch, and surrounding counties throughout east-central and southeast Georgia.-History:...	Ashlee Youmans
Fort Valley State University Fort Valley State University Fort Valley State University is a historically black university located in Fort Valley, Georgia. It is also a unit of the University System of Georgia and a member school of the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund...	Jared Tolbert	http://www.fvsu.edu/current-students/sga
Gainesville State College -Oconee	Leila Dycus
Gainesville State College Gainesville State College Gainesville State College is a state college of the University System of Georgia serving northeast Georgia since 1964. The Gainesville State College Gainesville Campus, located 45 miles northeast of Atlanta and six miles southwest of downtown Gainesville in Oakwood, is on Georgia State Route 53...	Andrew Wilkinson	http://www.gscsga.org
Georgia College & State University Georgia College & State University Georgia College & State University is a public liberal arts university in Milledgeville, Georgia, United States, with approximately 7,000 students...	Evan Karanovich	http://sga.gcsu.edu/
Georgia Gwinnett College	Jay Patel
Georgia Highlands College Georgia Highlands College Georgia Highlands College, commonly known as Georgia Highlands, is a two-year community college associate degree-granting unit of the University System of Georgia, and located in Rome, Georgia, USA; with satellite campuses in Heritage Hall, Rome, Georgia; Cartersville, Georgia; Marietta, GA;...	Mary Roberts
Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology The Georgia Institute of Technology is a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States...	Alina Staskevicius	http://sga.gatech.edu
Georgia Perimeter College -Clarkston	Courtney Epperson
Georgia Perimeter College -Decatur	Danielle Evans
Georgia Perimeter College -Newton	Nathan Bradley
Georgia Perimeter College -Dunwoody	Justin McPhatter
Georgia Southern University Georgia Southern University Georgia Southern University is a national public university located on a campus in Statesboro, Georgia, USA. Founded in 1906, it is part of the University System of Georgia and is the largest center of higher education in the southern half of Georgia offering 117 academic majors in a comprehensive...	Samantha Young	http://studentorg.georgiasouthern.edu/sga/
Georgia Southwestern State University Georgia Southwestern State University Georgia Southwestern State University in Americus, Georgia, is a school in the University System of Georgia.-The College of Arts and Sciences:The College of Arts and Sciences at GSW offers undergraduate degrees in art Georgia Southwestern State University in Americus, Georgia, is a school in the...	Andrew Robinson	http://gsw.edu/~tsg/
Georgia State University Georgia State University Georgia State University is a research university in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Founded in 1913, it serves about 30,000 students and is one of the University System of Georgia's four research universities...	Greg Abt	http://www.gsu.edu/sga/
Gordon College Gordon College Gordon College may refer to:* Gordon College , a public college in Barnesville, Georgia* Gordon College , a Christian college in Wenham, Massachusetts* Gordon College , a Christian college in Rawalpindi, Pakistan...	Kenyatta Hines
Kennesaw State University Kennesaw State University Kennesaw State University, also referred to as KSU, Kennesaw, or Kennesaw State, is a public, coeducational, comprehensive university that is part of the University System of Georgia. The university's main campus is located in Kennesaw, Georgia, United States, approximately north of Atlanta...	Daniel Street
Macon State College Macon State College Macon State College, formerly Macon College and Macon Junior College, is a four-year, residential, baccalaureate degree institution of the University System of Georgia located in Macon, Georgia with a satellite campus in Warner Robins, Georgia, as well as the Robins Resident Center, located on...	Cathy Miller
Medical College of Georgia Medical College of Georgia Georgia Health Sciences University formerly known as, and now home of the, Medical College of Georgia , is a public academic health center, with its main campus located in the Medical District of Augusta, Georgia. It is the smallest of four research universities in the University System of Georgia...	Dawnyetta Marable
Middle Georgia College -Cochran	Ben Mullis
Middle Georgia College -Eastman	Nate Gunn
Middle Georgia College -Dublin	Will Baxter
North Georgia College & State University	Martin Erbele	http://groups.ngcsu.edu/groups/SGA/
Savannah State University Savannah State University Savannah State University is a four-year, state-supported, historically black university located in Savannah, Georgia. Savannah State holds the distinction as the oldest public historically black university in Georgia...	Errol Hooper
Southern Polytechnic State University Southern Polytechnic State University Southern Polytechnic State University is a public, co-educational state university located in Marietta, Georgia, USA just northwest of Atlanta...	Andrew Coen
South Georgia College South Georgia College South Georgia College is a two-year, state-supported, residential junior college located in Douglas, Georgia, United States.-Affiliation/Accreditation:...	Chelsea Mitchell
University of Georgia University of Georgia The University of Georgia is a public research university located in Athens, Georgia, United States. Founded in 1785, it is the oldest and largest of the state's institutions of higher learning and is one of multiple schools to claim the title of the oldest public university in the United States...	Katie Barlow
University of West Georgia University of West Georgia The University of West Georgia is a comprehensive doctoral-granting university in Carrollton, Georgia, approximately 45 miles west of Atlanta, Georgia. The University is built on 645 acres including a recent land gift of 246 acres from the city of Carrollton in 2003...	Alan Webster
Valdosta State University Valdosta State University Valdosta State University, also referred to as VSU, or Valdosta State, is an American public university and is one of the two regional universities in the University System of Georgia. Valdosta State is located on a campus at the heart of the city of Valdosta...	Kelli Cody
Waycross College Waycross College Waycross College, a two-year unit of the University System of Georgia, exists to provide programs of higher education for citizens of the immediate and surrounding communities...	Tonya Lowmon

History

On March 13, 1968, Chancellor George L. Simpson, Jr. recommended that the Board of Regents establish a University System Student Advisory Council. This council was to be composed of all the student body president

Student body president

The President of the Student Government is the highest ranking officer of a student government or student union association on the high school, college, or university level...

s within the University System.

The Board of Regents felt that the format of the Student Advisory Council would further enhance the student government organizations while creating responsible student leadership in the University System and so authorized its establishment.

Georgia constitution mandate

Provide a forum for communication and recommendation between the students of the University System of Georgia and the Chancellor of the System, the Board of Regents, the state government, the news media, and the public concerning problems and issues which are important to the students of the University System of Georgia.

Promote better student government at institutions of the University System through the dissemination of information between and the provision of assistance to member institutions regarding problems and activities. The primary internal function of the Student Advisory Council shall be to discuss issues of direct concern to the student body of the University System of Georgia within those forums established for that purpose.

Meetings

The Student Advisory Council meets one or two times per semester to present committee progress and to openly discuss ongoing and new issues. Presentations are also performed to SAC by USG personnel on such matters as Legislative updates, the USG Strategic Plan, and other changes that effect the student population in the University System. Other guests and participants include the Chancellor, Regents, the "host" institution's President, and faculty/staff from the various institutions. For each meeting, the student body presidents (SAC representatives) convene at different colleges/universities throughout the state. The "host" institution is predetermined, and is featured at the specific meeting as a means to diversify awareness of the different institutions within the University System.

Committees

The student body president