SGA is your voice
- Mar 23, 2017
- 1 min read
Since its establishment in 1973, FIU’s Student Government Association, SGA, “has continued to strive for excellence on behalf of all Panthers.”
This opinion article was originally featured in PantherNOW and discusses the importance of college student governments.
Check out the article’s excerpt below and click the link if you want to read the full story!
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Maytinee Kramer/Assistant Opinion Director
Since its establishment in 1973, FIU’s Student Government Association, SGA, “has continued to strive for excellence on behalf of all Panthers.” Despite SGA existing to represent students and act in their best interests on academic, extracurricular and social issues, many students don’t know about SGA or what it is they do. As part of the FIU community, fellow Panthers should know and understand SGA because it is the bridge between students and administration.
To better represent students, FIU SGA is divided into two councils – SGC-MMC, which represents the interests of students at the Modesto Maidique Campus and the Engineering Center, and SGC-BBC, which represents the interests of students at the Biscayne Bay Campus and FIU at I-75 Center.
FIU SGA works in coherence with the idea of checks and balances, thus is divided into the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches. Each school year, SGA works tirelessly to expand our university’s efforts, engaging local, state, and federal officials to help accomplish goals.
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