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AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STUDENT GOVERNMENT
ASSOCIATION
(approved an effective Spring 2001)
Amendment to Article 7:
The number of SGA members shall be reduced to 16: Four in the board
and twelve in the different committees.
“A General Assembly (GA) shall be elected by all students at AUI. Representation
of the student body in the General Assembly shall be proportionate to their
numbers by schools, majors, and levels (graduate and undergraduate). There
shall be 16 members in the General Assembly.”
Amendment to Article 9:
The executive board shall consist only of four members: President,
vice president, secretary general, and treasurer. These will be elected
directly from and among members of the general assembly.
Amendment to Article 10:
The student senate shall consist of 12 members of the general Assembly
who are not part of the Executive Board.
Amendment to Article 13:
No more than 5 of the newly elected members are allowed to be in
their last semester.
Amendment to Article 16:
The GA shall have one regular meeting every week. Minutes of all
GA meetings shall be made available to both the student body and
the administration.
Amendment to Article 27:
The Academic Affairs committee shall consist of one student representative
from each school. The SGA president shall appoint, with the consent
of the executive board, an additional member from the language center
whose function shall be to represent the language center students.
The Academic Affairs committee shall concern itself with the following
issues:
- Expressing students’ concerns regarding academic issues.
- Helping the students comprehend their full rights as well as
their responsibilities and obligations regarding academic affairs.
- Contributing to the university’s stated commitment to
excellence and to the provision of academic training in response
to national and regional development needs.
Amendment to Article 28:
Student services committee shall consist of 4 members. The committee
shall concern itself with the following issues:
- Expressing student’s concerns regarding housing, restaurant,
campus store, bookstore, and the other University services;
- Contributing to the development and quality of these services.
Amendment to Article 29:
Student activities committee shall consist of 3 members, The committee
shall concern itself with the following issues:
- Developing a favorable environment enhancing the students’ academic
performance and keeping students on campus.
- Developing a spirit of participation and cooperation among students
and soliciting input from them in order to expand student activities
on the campus.
Amendment to Article 30:
The Public Relations committee shall consist only of 2 members. The
committee shall concern itself with the following issues:
- Promoting the image of the University off-campus.
- Coordinating SGA attendance at seminars, conventions and gatherings
outside the University.
- Making contacts with the business world in order to assist the
University department involved in this activity.
Amendment to Article 35:
To ensure continuity inside the Student Government, at most 3 members
of the GA will be directly re-elected from within the General Assembly
by the members of the GA where the vote will take place 2 sessions
before the end of the term.
Amendment to Article 36:
A waiting list should be constituted by the candidates who have not
been able to get enough votes to reach the GA. These candidates will
be classified in term of their number of votes and their respective
schools.
In case of vacancy, replacement procedure will be initiated, the
member will be replaced by a student enrolled in the same school,
and level.
The new candidate will be the one with the highest number of votes
in the waiting list of his/her respective school.
New Article 42:
An SGA member who accumulates four unadjusted absences or shows negligence
to the tasks assigned to him/her shall be automatically replaced.
New Article 43:
The Executive Board members shall be either confirmed or re-elected
the following semester. Votes shall take place within the first two
weeks of the following semester by all remaining SGA members.
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