How Can Senate Help Me?

Students and visitors of all kinds are welcomed at each and every senate meeting. Come see what the senate is all about at our next meeting. The senate meets every Tuesday at 6:00 pm in Room 1864 (Driscoll North, 2nd floor). Senate elections are held every year in the Spring. Officers are elected for the various schools, classes, and living locations.

You can call the Senator's Office: (303) 871-4955
Or, the Executive's Office: (303) 871-3402
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University of Denver All Undergraduate Student Association Senate Organization Breakdown

The AUSA Senate hears student concerns, passes legistation concerning student and student organizations, and serves as an elected liaison between the students and the faculty.

Organization structure:

Executive Board
President and Vice President are elected.
Chair of Marketing, Chair of Records and Chair of Finance are appointed by President and Vice President and are voted into office by majority Senate vote.
Chair of Programming is the president of the University of Denver Programs Board.
President Pro-Tempore is a senate elected senator.

Senate (2 from each school and Class)
Daniels College of Business Senator
Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences Senator
Natural Sciences, Mathematics and Engineering Senator
Off-Campus Senator
On-Campus Senator
Sophomore Senator
Junior Senator
Senior Senator
First-Year Senator

List who is responsible for each:

President
Main liaison between students and administration. Attends faculty meeting as the student representative

Vice President
Second liaison between students and administration. Serves as president upon president's absence.

Chair of Marketing
Responsible for senate website, Clarion advertisements, Senate publications and general senate publicity.

Chair of Records
Senate Secretary

Chair of Finance
Senate comptroller

Chair of Programming
President of University of Denver Programs Board. Serves as member of Executive Board.

President Pro-Tempore
Serves as senate elected liaison between Senate and Executive Board

Daniels College of Business Senator
Said senator, works with issues pertaining to said school.

Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences Senator
Said senator, works with issues pertaining to said school.

Natural Sciences, Mathematics and Engineering Senator
Said senator, works with issues pertaining to said school.

Off-Campus Senator
Said senator, works with issues pertaining to said living option.

On-Campus Senator
Said senator, works with issues pertaining to said living option.

Sophomore Senator
Said senator, works with issues pertaining to said academic classification.

Junior Senator
Said senator, works with issues pertaining to said academic classification.

Senior Senator
Said senator, works with issues pertaining to said academic classification.

Freshman Senator
Said senator, works with issues pertaining to said academic classification.

How the organization is funded: Automatic funding each school year from a percentage of student activities fees, can apply itself for Excess Funds funding and through the Board of Contingency (both Senate run funding board processes)

Specific responsibilities with funds: Promote and denote funding student organization activities.