Student Affairs Committee

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The Student Affairs Committee of the University Senate is the committee that represents student interests. It comprises the 24 voting Senators from the schools of Columbia University (including Barnard and Teachers College) and one non-voting observer from the Union Theological Seminary.

It is also coterminous with and functions as the student caucus or student voting bloc of the University Senate, as all student Senators are automatically members of the Student Affairs Committee. The Student Affairs Committee does not not function as a "super-student council". However, it is primus inter pares and first in the order of precedence of student governance, as it is both the senior body, and the only body at Columbia University representing students across all the schools.

Name

According to the Senate's founding documents, the "Student Affairs Committee" once comprised sixteen students, while the "student caucus" comprised all twenty-four. In the mid-1990s, a merger was effected, and the entire twenty-four member body was (somewhat nonsensically) known as the "Student Affairs Caucus" until 2010. In 2010, it was definitively rebranded as the "Student Affairs Committee" to emphasize its open, deliberative nature, as opposed to identifying it strictly as a voting bloc.

Leadership

Year Chair/Co-Chair Co-Chair
2010-2011 Tao Tan, CC '07, Business '11
2009-2010 Andreas Svedin, PhD '12
2008-2009 Amena Cheema, Arts '09 Genevieve Thornton, CC '02, Business '09
2007-2008 John Johnson, Law '08 Andrea Hauge, CC '??, Business '08
2006-2007 Chris Riano, GS '07 Marcus Johnson, CC '07
2005-2006 Adam Michaels, Business '06 Holly Snow, Barnard '06
2004-2005 Matan Ariel, GS '05, Business '11 Nate Walker, TC '??
2003-2004 Matan Ariel, GS '05, Business '11 Brian Tobin, MSPH '??
2002-2003 Roosevelt Montas, CC '95, MA '96, PhD '04 Marni Hall, MSPH '??, PhD '??
2001-2002 Roosevelt Montas, CC '95, MA '96, PhD '04 Rohit Aggarwala, CC '??, Business '??, PhD '??
2000-2001 Rohit Aggarwala, CC '??, Business '??, PhD '??
1999-2000 Rohit Aggarwala, CC '??, Business '??, PhD '??
1998-1999 Corby Dale, MSPH '??, PhD '??
1997-1998 Monty Mason, GS '??
1996-1997 John Ratner, CC '??, Law '??, JTS '??
1995-1996 Records missing
1994-1995 Frank David
1993-1994 Shary Crossfield
1992-1993 Mitchell Wong, CC '??
1991-1992 Eric Finseth, Law '??
1990-1991 Sean Gaffney, Arts '??
1989-1990 Tom Kamber, CC '??
1988-1989 Steve Cancian, CC '??
1987-1988 Matthew Kohl, GS '??
1986-1987 Ellen Ostrick Knight, CC '??, Law '??

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