The Student Government Association Senate held a meeting Monday, March 25, at 7:30 p.m. in the Student Center.
The meeting started off with nominees for new cabinet positions. Ben Burkett was nominated and chosen for the position of SGA chief of staff.
Burkett believes that this job will mostly involve skills including branding, building, and administrating. Right now Burkett is serving mostly in administrative functions.
"I really believe that dance marathon has been absolutely the best experience I could have for things like that," Burkett said. "I've done a lot of scheduling work for that and I've done a lot of schedules for campaigns too and that really helps with the administrative, secretarial, librarian-like nature of the job."
Robert Powers was nominated and chosen for the position of SGA executive vice president of programming. Powers was the director of freshman forum this year.
"A really big thing that I want to do with the program is . . . to build off past successes and past experiences," Powers said. "I think if we look at what we've done in the past, we can get those budgets turned in earlier."
Chelsea Crooks was nominated and chosen for SGA vice president of initiatives. Crooks is strong in the academic field but plans on working with other parts of campus as well.
"I have experience in terms of working with facilities and relationships with some of the administration within the facilities," Crooks said. "I will continue to work specifically with regards to facilities."
Justin Mathews was appointed as senator for the college of architecture design and construction and Devin Baumgarten was appointed as senator for the college of education.
Betsy Jackson was also appointed as a senator for the college of education. SGA has closed its search for advisors with a group of 103 applicants who are interested in the position.
Corey Edwards, current SGA advisor, said that they will narrow it down to about 10 phone interviews and then three to four applicants who will come to campus. Edwards said that many members of SGA will help with this decision.
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