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Georgetown University Student Association
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Structure
Executive Branch
The Executive Branch is made up of a President and Vice President, elected by the undergraduate student body each November to lead for the following calendar year, as well as a staff whose size and structure is largely up to the discretion of the President and Vice President.WEB,weblink Georgetown University Student Association: About, 2007, Georgetown University, 2008-03-10, Since 2023, the executive staff has been restructured and expanded to address many issues raised by members of the undergraduate student body. Membership on cabinet staff, executive staff, and general staff positions is application-based and open to all undergraduate students.WEB,weblink Georgetown University Student Association: External Boards, Georgetown University, 2008, 2008-03-10,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110719204733weblink">weblink 2011-07-19, dead, The President and Vice President also appoint student representatives to a variety of external boards and committees, and all executive staff positions and external board appointments are subject to review and confirmation by the Senate.WEB,weblink Georgetown University Student Association: Constitution, Georgetown University, 2007, 2008-03-10,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20100629120835weblink">weblink 2010-06-29, dead, {| class="wikitable"|+Current and Former Executives!Year!President!Vice President- Due to a change in election timelines, beginning in 2022 the GUSA Executive serves for a calendar year rather than a school year
Legislative Branch
The Legislative Branch is made up of a 29-person Senate which can amend the GUSA bylaws, confirm executive and judicial appointments, and engage in advocacy through mechanisms that include resolutions and ad hoc committees. The Senate is led by a Speaker and Vice Speaker during the academic year and over the summer. The Senate also controls the process by which more than $1 million is allocated to student organizations. The process is overseen by the Senate's Finance and Appropriations Committee, which allocates the sum total funds generated by the Student Activities Fee ($164 per student in 2018WEB, Undergraduate,weblink 2018-07-25, studentaccounts.georgetown.edu, en, ) each year to five club advisory boards, the Lecture Fund, the Georgetown Programming Board, and other groups.{| class="wikitable"|+Current and Former Senate Leadership!Senate!Speaker!Vice SpeakerJudicial Branch
The Judicial Branch is made up of a 3-person Constitutional Council, which oversees all internal GUSA disputes and is charged with the stewardship of the GUSA Constitution.Legacy
Student government has been involved throughout its history in the establishment, expansion, and improvement of a plethora of student resources and services. This legacy includes the Georgetown University Transportation Shuttles (GUTS) system, which was founded in 1974 and expanded several times since then through the work of student government, and campus dining, whose improvement has been a focus of student government for decades. Other initiatives include:- The Georgetown University Lecture Fund, which was founded by Student Government in the 1970s and became an independent organization in 2005WEB,weblink GUSA Assembly Grants Lecture Fund Liberation, Santulli, Stephen, February 25, 2005, The Hoya,
- The GeorgetownOne Card (GoCard), in whose 2001 creation GUSA played a pivotal roleNEWS,weblink STUDENT LIFE GU One Card Planned To Start Next Semester, Keller, Caroline, September 28, 2001, The Hoya, 2008-04-22, {{dead link|date=January 2017|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}
- The Collegiate Readership Program, a GUSA initiative which provided students with free copies of major newspapers from 2008 to 2015,WEB,weblink Readership Program Back, Snow Poses No Obstacle, McLennon, Maddie, February 9, 2010, The Hoya, and 2023 onwards
- The Summer Fellows program, which was founded by GUSA in 2009 and now provides free on-campus summer housing to low-income students under the auspices of the Georgetown Scholarship Program (GSP)WEB,weblink New Candidates Must Build on Past GUSA Successes, Talbot, Adam, February 10, 2011, The Hoya,
- Currently known as the Summer BRIDGE Housing Program from 2023 onwards
- The Student Advocacy Office (SAO), which was founded by GUSA in 2012 and continues to provide assistance to students navigating the university's disciplinary systemsWEB,weblink Student Advocacy Office, Georgetown University Student Association,
- The Georgetown University Farmer's Market, which was organized by GUSA in 2018 and continues under its own board every Wednesday during the school year
- The Georgetown Student Mental Health Fund, which was organized by GUSA in 2018 with an initial contribution from GUSA, the Student Affairs Office, and an anonymous donor, helps fund students who are referred to off campus specialists from the Counseling and Psychiatry Services, ongoing funding is being supported by the Division of Student Affairs
- The Georgetown Disability Cultural Initiative, which welcomed its first Associate Director, Dr. Amy Kenny, in the summer of 2022 and later became the Disability Cultural Center in Fall 2023
- Other notable groups that the Georgetown University Student Association has founded over its duration include:
- Students Advocating for Food Equity (SAFE)
- The Georgetown University Coalition for Worker's Rights (GUCWR)
- Inter-Academic Council (InterAC)
- The Hoya Hub
History
Georgetown University Athletic Association: 1874 to 1920
The earliest form of student government at Georgetown was the Georgetown University Athletic Association, which formed in 1874 in order to coordinate athletics amongst the students of Georgetown College. The Athletic Association was relatively informal in its structure and duties until 1889, when students drafted a constitution and began annual elections. Its leadership consisted of three elected students ââ the Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer ââ as well as the managers of each athletic team and a Jesuit advisor who held the symbolic title of "President". That symbolism was soon relinquished, however, and by 1900 the student leader of the Athletic Association was called its President. The Association's duties were almost entirely athletic in nature; it coordinated schedules for athletic practices and games, managed the sharing of athletic equipment, and raised funds in order to support activities related to athletics and school spirit.BOOK, Curran, Robert Emmett, A History of Georgetown University, Georgetown University Press, 2010, 978-1589016910, The Athletic Association was also called "The Yard" interchangeably, in likely reference to the College Yard in which athletic games were played. Its annual leaders were thus referred to as the Yard President, Yard Secretary, and Yard Treasurer.The 3 Student Councils: 1920 to 1969
In 1920, a College Student Council was formed with representatives from each class year. The Athletic Association continued to exist for the limited purpose of coordinating athletics, but the College Student Council supplanted it as the most important and authoritative elected body of the College and thus assumed the title "The Yard". Unlike the Athletic Association, the Student Council's duties were wide-ranging, including advocacy for student interests and the coordination of social life in the College. Students in the College continued to elect three executives each year ââ the Yard President, Yard Secretary, and Yard Treasurer ââ who oversaw both the old Athletic Association and the new College Student Council.In 1940, the students of Georgetown College approved a new constitution for the College Student Council which included representation for the College's most significant student organizations alongside the representatives of each class. Over the next thirty years, the organizations represented on the Council would include the Georgetown College Journal, the Collegiate Club, the Glee Club, The Hoya, the International Relations Club, Mask and Bauble, the Philodemic Society, the Sodality, the Washington Club, and WGTB Radio.NEWS, November 20, 1946, Preliminary Sketch of New Georgetown Constitution, The Hoya, Around the same time that the College Student Council was formed in 1920, the students of the newly-established School of Foreign Service (SFS) founded an SFS Student Council. Like its original College counterpart, the SFS Student Council included representatives from each class year as well as the whole school and took on a variety of responsibilities including advocacy and social life. When the School of Languages and Linguistics was founded in 1949 and the School of Business in 1957, their student bodies were incorporated into the SFS Student Council's representative infrastructure. By the early 1960s, the group was called the "East Campus Student Council" or "Walsh Area Student Council" to reflect the fact that its constituency now included three undergraduate schools but that all three schools were located on Georgetown's "East Campus" (the block between 35th and 36th Streets NW, on which the Walsh Building stands).At some point in the 1940s or 50s, the students of the Nursing School founded the Nursing School Student Council, which, like its SFS counterpart, included class representatives and school-wide elected officers but not representatives of student organizations. The first women to hold elected office in student government at Georgetown did so on the Nursing School Student Council, since the school was originally open only to women.Administrative collaboration and social interaction between Georgetown's five separate undergraduate schools began to increase in the 1950s and 60s, and by the mid-60s there was an unprecedented sense of shared community amongst students of the five schools. Students also began to recognize the practical benefits of university-wide collaboration on the issues that affected students in all schools equally. As a result, several attempts were made throughout the 1960s to unify the three disparate student councils. Unification efforts were finally successful in March 1968, when a referendum passed among the constituencies of all three student councils. In December 1968, students from all schools elected 40 delegates to a constitutional convention, which was charged with drafting a structure for the new, unified student government. The convention released its plans within a few months, and the first university-wide student government election was held in May 1969.BOOK, Durkin, Joseph, Swift Potomac's Lovely Daughter: Two Centuries at Georgetown through Students' Eyes, Georgetown University Press, 1990, 978-0-87840-501-5, 203â214,Student Government (SG): 1969 to 1984
Simply called the Student Government (SG), the new unified institution included a President and Vice President elected by the entire student body, and a Senate with 5 students elected from each school and 5 from each class (40 in total).Georgetown University Student Association (GUSA): 1984 to present
In 1984, students replaced the SG with the Georgetown University Student Association (GUSA), a new institution that over time came to be loosely based on the tripartite structure of the federal government of the United States. GUSA's executive branch included a President and Vice President, elected annually by the student body. Its legislative branch consisted of a 16-person Assembly, with 4 representatives from each class yearââthus eliminating the last vestiges of differentiated representation for the five schools. After 1990, GUSA also had a judicial branch, consisting of a 3-person Constitutional Council empowered to resolve constitutional disputes within the student government.The GUSA Constitution has been amended three times:- In March 1990, students replaced the original GUSA Constitution with a shorter, more streamlined document. They also created a Constitutional Council.NEWS, Stewart, Mike, March 23, 2006, Fixing what's broken, The Georgetown Voice,weblink 2008-03-10,
- In October 2006, students replaced the Assembly with the Senate, a larger body made up of representatives from geographic districts across Georgetown's campus.NEWS, Murchison, Twister, November 14, 2006, Fall Brings Winds of Change for GUSA, The Hoya,weblink 2008-03-10, {{dead link|date=January 2017|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}
- In February 2018, students voted to maintain the Senate's larger size but return it to a system of representation based on class year, rather than geography.WEB, Ash, Elizabeth, February 27, 2018, GUSA Senate Confirms Election Results,weblink The Hoya,
Notable alumni
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upU.S. President Bill Clinton ran for the presidency of the East Campus Student Council in spring 1967 (his junior year), but lost to Terrence Modglin. This flyer advertised his candidacy.
Many notable individuals in business, politics, religion, and the arts began their careers in Georgetown's student government, including: - Clinton at Georgetown 1967.jpg -
upU.S. President Bill Clinton ran for the presidency of the East Campus Student Council in spring 1967 (his junior year), but lost to Terrence Modglin. This flyer advertised his candidacy.
- Condé M. Nast (C 1894), Secretary of The Yard in 1892â93 and founder of the Condé Nast publishing empire
- Matthew R. Denver (C 1891), Vice President of The Yard in 1891â92 and a member of Congress from Ohio
- James P. B. Duffy (C 1901), President of The Yard in 1900â01 and a member of Congress from New York
- Philip A. Hart (C 1934), President of The Yard in 1933â34 and a Senator from Michigan
- George H. Guilfoyle (C 1935), President of The Yard in 1934â35 and a Roman Catholic Bishop
- Richard J. McCooey (C 1952), President of The Yard in 1951â52 and founder of Georgetown restaurants 1789, The Tombs, and F. Scott's
- Joseph R. Baczko (F 1967), Treasurer of the East Campus Student Council in 1965â66, President of Blockbuster Entertainment, and founder and President of Toys "R" Us
- Frank A. Keating (C 1966), President of The Yard in 1965â66 and Governor of Oklahoma
- William J. Clinton (F 1968), freshman class president in 1964â65, sophomore class president in 1965â66, and the 42nd President of the United States
- William Doyle (C 1972), freshman representative to The Yard in 1968â69 and Chair of the Georgetown University Board of Directors
- Jack W. Leslie (F 1976), President of the Student Government in 1974â75 and Chairman of Weber Shandwick and the U.S. African Development Foundation
- David L. Goldwyn (C 1981), President of the Student Government in 1980â81, Assistant Secretary of Energy from 1999 to 2001, and National Security Deputy to the US Ambassador to the United Nations from 1997 to 1998
- S. Fitzgerald Haney (F 1990), President of GUSA in 1989â90 and Ambassador to Costa Rica
- Stephanie H. Sandlin (C 1993), Chair of the GUSA Assembly in 1992â93, a member of Congress from South Dakota, and President of Augustana University
- Richard R. Heitzmann (B 1994), President of GUSA in 1993â94 and co-founder of venture capital firm FirstMark Capital
- John P. Cronan (C 1998), President of GUSA in 1997â99 and a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, formerly Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice's Criminal Division
- John Glennon (C 1999), President of GUSA in 1998â99 and Headmaster of Georgetown Preparatory School
- Mohammed bin Hamad Al Thani (F 2009), first President of GUQ-SGA in 2006â07 and Managing Director of the Qatar Supreme Committee for the 2022 FIFA World Cup
Qatar campus
The Georgetown University in Qatar's Student Government Association (GUQ-SGA) is an annually elected, student-run governance association that works to represent the student body of Georgetown University's Qatar campus and liaise with university administrators. The Executive branch consists of 11 members headed by the President, who chairs the Student Liaison Commission (SLC), and the Vice President, who chairs the Student Activities Commission (SAC).WEB, Student Government Association,weblink Georgetown University in Qatar, The Legislative branch is made up of two class representatives from each of the four graduating classes. GUQ-SGA has strong connections with the Georgetown University Student Association (GUSA) and Georgetown University Graduate Student Government (GradGov) on the Main Campus as part of their OneGeorgetown initiative, in addition to other universities located in Education City.WEB, A Seat At the Table: TGG's Editorial Board Interviews SGA President,weblink The Georgetown Gazette,References
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