Student Government Association
Pensacola State College provides an opportunity for experience in self-government on each campus. A student may hold any office in the Student Government Association (SGA), other College organization, or represent the College in any manner if he or she satisfies the requirements stated by the organization’s constitution. Students are the constituents of the academic community of Pensacola State College and are entitled to express their opinions on subjects involving their intellectual, social, physical, and moral development, and to participate in the formulation of institutional policy, which affects their general interests and welfare. The SGA is the primary vehicle for student expression and participation in the democratic process.
The SGA should serve to promote a climate encouraging responsible participation and leadership in the College community, to foster understanding and a positive relationship between the student body and the faculty and administration, and to lead actions beneficial to the College community as a whole. Current copies of the SGA’s Constitution are on file in the Student Leadership and Activities Office.
Scope of Authority
The Pensacola State College SGA is recognized as the official student body government and shall serve to express the will of the general college body. The College shall work with the SGA in seeking the opinions and assistance of the general student body on matters of their proper concern. The SGA is responsible for establishing and enforcing its own rules of procedure. Such rules must not be in conflict with the policies of the College or laws of the state and national government.
The Student Government Association is responsible for the following:
- Budgeting student leadership and activities fund;
- Informing the organizations of the necessity of compliance with all organizational regulations;
- Recommending changes necessary for the successful and proper functioning of organizations;
- Encouraging various student publications to publish such notices as it deems necessary for the information of the student body;
- Informing students of its role, of the students’ roles, and of the necessity of student participation in maintaining effective student government and the democratic process;
- Promoting, endorsing, and continually striving to improve the honor system described in Article IV of the Constitution;
- Expressing choices and making recommendations for speakers and entertainers for the Pensacola State College Lyceum series;
- Participating in the formulations of policies regulating student conduct through representation on committees charged with drawing up codes of conduct;
- Requesting appropriate changes in College policy not directly under the control of the SGA, such as changes in curriculum, to the appropriate faculty committee or administrative official;
- Receiving petitions from students who wish to express their opinions or suggest changes to College policy; and
- Establishing special committees to study particular problems.
Actions of the SGA shall be subject to review by officials authorized to do so by Constitution or by the College President.