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Postions Descriptions

Student Association
President: Chief Executive Officer and the official spokesperson on behalf of the Student Association. 
Vice President: Executive Officer of the Student Association and spokesperson in the absence of the president.

Academic Senate
The Academic Senate is responsible, subject to the Board of Trustees of the City University of New York, for the formulation of policy relating to the admission and retention of students, curriculum, granting of degrees, Campus Life, and the nomination of Academic Deans.  The Academic Senate is also responsible for and establishes rules governing the use of the College name by organizations and clubs.  It makes its own bylaws consistent with the Bylaws of the Board of Trustees, and conducts the educational affairs customarily cared for by a college faculty.

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Academic Senate Positions:

 Undergraduate: 9 Representatives including:
  3 - senior & upper junior classes
3 - lower junior & upper sophomore classes
3 - lower sophomore & freshman classes
At-Large:          8 Representatives
SEEK:            1 Representative
Adult Collegiate Education:      1 Representative
Graduate:             1 Representative

New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG)
Four Positions

NYPIRG has a Board of Directors that governs the organization.  NYPIRG is Board is composed entirely of elected students.  The Board has a number of important organizational duties:

  • Serve as directors for the corporation and as delegates of the members
    (students and school) by whom they are chosen
  • Set program (issue) priorities for NYPIRG
  • Adopt an annual budget
  • Create and adopt new programs (issues) and areas of concern for research
  • Approve all local projects of each chapter
  • Consider lawsuits and direct legal actions
  • Appoint and dismiss the Executive Director

Faculty-Student Disciplinary Committee (FSDC)

In the event of a student disciplinary hearing, the role of the faculty-student disciplinary committee is to listen to the testimony, ask questions of the witnesses, review the testimony and evidence presented at the hearing and the papers filed by the parties and render a determination as to guilt or innocence.



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