Prove It: SGA is encouraged to participate in campus committees. Administration make some effort including students in decisions. There's bureaucratic inertia in the system & communication between the various constituencies is severely lacking.

Prove It: The student government pays for the vast majority of its training through fees collected from students and placed into the SG budget. The administration has little to do with training, but will make some effort at accommodating us if we ask for help.

Prove It: The school does not aid in the transition and installation of new SG officers, but our advisor does make it known that a new student leadership has been elected following the spring annual elections.

Prove It: The President, Vice Presidents, and Dean of Students are open and welcoming to the SGA; lower-level administrators, such as deans of student learning and directors, are much less welcome and rarely ask for our input.

Prove It: Students have served on the screening committees to select the college president, VP of student services, dean of students, and director of supportive services. This is recent so continued student participation on committees is our priority.

Prove It: We don't develop the school budget. We can access the budget & where student fees are allocated. We develop our own budget & have 2 accounts for student fees. Administration doesn't allow full access to the accounts they "hold" for us.

Prove It: We have where it counts - the administration attempted to move our campus newspaper out of the campus center, to "prioritize" the academic side of the journalism program. The SGA objected, they backed down.

Prove It: We are merely consulted before a decision is made, other times we are included in the decision-making process and our opinion is the one that counts. We are allowed to make our own mistakes and learn from them.

Prove It: We don't have luxurious accommodations, but we have plenty of office space for the task at hand. Each executive officer has his/her own office, plus a meeting room and storage space.

Prove It: Again, top-level administrators bring us into the decision-making process, but lower-level administrators tend to treat student government leaders as kids.

Prove It: In the past the student government president has been asked to show up to events to prove that students are included in college events. We have a new PR director at our college, however, and he is pro-student and is open to covering our activities.