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'' function as a "super-student council". However, it is [[w:primus inter pares|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. Student members, therefore, are subject to very high standards and expectations.<ref>[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/senate/committeepages/standards&expectations_sac.pdf Standards and Expectations for Student Senators]</ref>

== Name ==

According to the Senate's founding documents, the "Student Affairs Committee" once comprised a limited number of students along with faculty and administrators, while the "student caucus" comprised all twenty-four. However, the pre-1995 Student Affairs Committee's mandate was limited strictly to student issues, while the all-encompassing student caucus was able to weigh in on all Senate issues.

In 1995, a merger was effected, faculty and administrators left the Student Affairs Committee, and the entire twenty-four member body was (incorrectly, and 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 ==

Due to the requirement and responsibility of the SAC leadership to work across different schools, departments, and campuses, many of SAC's leaders tend to have [[w:nerd|multiple Columbia degrees]]. [[Columbia College]] and [[Columbia Business School]] appear to be the most common, although [[General Studies]] and the [[Graduate School of Arts and Sciences]] are also in there.

{|
|- style="background:#DDDDDD;"
| '''Year'''
| '''Chair/Co-Chairs'''
| '''Annual Report'''
|- valign="top"
|[[2012]]-[[2013]]
|[[Eduardo Santana]], [[Columbia College|CC]] '13 (until January 2013) [[Richard Sun]], [[Columbia College|CC]] '13 [[Anjelica Kelly]], [[Columbia Business School|Business]] '13
|
|- valign="top"
|[[2011]]-[[2012]]
|[[Alex Frouman]], [[Columbia College|CC]] '12 [[Adil Ahamed]], [[Columbia Business School|Business]] '12
|
|- valign="top"
|[[2010]]-[[2011]]
|[[Tao Tan]], [[Columbia College|CC]] '07, [[Columbia Business School|Business]] '11
|[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/senate/archives/reports_archive/10-11/sac_annual_report%202010-2011.pdf Link to Report]
|- valign="top"
|[[2009]]-[[2010]]
|[[Andreas Svedin]], [[PhD]] (Astronomy) '12
|[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/senate/archives/reports_archive/09-10/sac_annual_report_2009-2010.pdf Link to Report]
|- valign="top"
|[[2008]]-[[2009]]
|[[Genevieve Thornton]], [[Columbia College|CC]] '02, [[Columbia Business School|Business]] '09 [[Amena Cheema]], [[Arts]] '09
|[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/senate/archives/reports_archive/08-09/sac_annual_report_09.html Link to Report]
|- valign="top"
|[[2007]]-[[2008]]
|Andrea Hauge, [[Columbia College|CC]] '02, [[Columbia Business School|Business]] '08 [[John Johnson]], [[Law]] '08
|[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/senate/archives/reports_archive/07-08/studentcaucus_annualreport2007-2008.html Link to Report]
|- valign="top"
|[[2006]]-[[2007]]
|[[Chris Riano]], [[GS]] '07 [[Marcus Johnson]], [[Columbia College|CC]] '07
|[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/senate/archives/reports_archive/06-07/student07.htm Link to Report]
|- valign="top"
|[[2005]]-[[2006]]
|Adam Michaels, [[Columbia Business School|Business]] '06 Holly Snow, [[Barnard]] '06
|[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/senate/archives/reports_archive/05-06/sac06.htm Link to Report]
|- valign="top"
|[[2004]]-[[2005]]
|[[Matan Ariel]], [[GS]] '06, [[Columbia Business School|Business]] '11 Nathan Walker, [[MA]] ([[TC]]) '02, [[MDiv]] ([[UTS]]) '05, [[EdM]] ([[TC]]) '08, [[EdD]] ([[TC]]) '13
|[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/senate/archives/reports_archive/04-05/studentar0505.htm Link to Report]
|- valign="top"
|[[2003]]-[[2004]]
|[[Matan Ariel]], [[GS]] '06, [[Columbia Business School|Business]] '11 Brian Tobin, [[MPH]] '05 Nathan Walker, [[MA]] ([[TC]]) '02, [[MDiv]] ([[UTS]]) '05, [[EdM]] ([[TC]]) '08, [[EdD]] ([[TC]]) '13
|[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/senate/archives/reports_archive/03-04/stu-ann.htm Link to Report]
|- valign="top"
|[[2002]]-[[2003]]
|[[Roosevelt Montás]], [[Columbia College|CC]] '95, [[MA]] '96, [[MPhil]] '99, [[PhD]] (English) '04 Jerald Boak, [[Columbia College|CC]] '95, [[Arts]] '04 Marni Hall, [[MA]] '01, [[MPH]] '05, [[PhD]] ([[Public Health]]) '07
|[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/senate/archives/reports_archive/02-03/SACAnnRep03.htm Link to Report]
|- valign="top"
|[[2001]]-[[2002]]
|Rohit Aggarwala, [[Columbia College|CC]] '93, [[MPhil]] '98, [[Columbia Business School|Business]] '00, [[PhD]] (History) '02 [[Roosevelt Montás]], [[Columbia College|CC]] '95, [[MA]] '96, [[MPhil]] '99, [[PhD]] (English) '04
|[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/senate/archives/reports_archive/01-02/StuAffComm.htm Link to Report]
|- valign="top"
|[[2000]]-[[2001]]
|Rohit Aggarwala, [[Columbia College|CC]] '93, [[MPhil]] '98, [[Columbia Business School|Business]] '00, [[PhD]] (History) '02
|[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/senate/archives/reports_archive/00-01/stucauc01.htm Link to Report]
|- valign="top"
|[[1999]]-[[2000]]
||Rohit Aggarwala, [[Columbia College|CC]] '93, [[MPhil]] '98, [[Columbia Business School|Business]] '00, [[PhD]] (History) '02
|[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/senate/archives/reports_archive/99-00/stu001apr.htm Link to Report]
|- valign="top"
|[[1998]]-[[1999]]
|Records missing
|
|- valign="top"
|[[1997]]-[[1998]]
|Corby Dale, [[MPH]] '95, [[MA]] '98, [[MPhil]] '00, [[PhD]] (Psychology) '00
|
|- valign="top"
|[[1996]]-[[1997]]
|Montimer "Monty" Mason, [[GS]] '97 Joshua Ratner, [[Columbia College|CC]] '98, [[Law]] '02
|
|- valign="top"
|[[1995]]-[[1996]]
|Frank David, [[MA]] '96, [[MPhil]] '96, [[PhD]] (Pathobiology) '00, [[MD]] '01
|
|- valign="top"
|[[1994]]-[[1995]]
|Records missing.
|
|- valign="top"
|[[1993]]-[[1994]]
|R. Shary Crossfield-Peguero, [[Columbia College|CC]] '91, [[Law]] '94 (Student Affairs Committee) Mitchell Wong, [[Columbia College|CC]] '94 (Student Caucus)
|
|- valign="top"
|[[1992]]-[[1993]]
|Eric Finseth, [[Law]] '94 Sean Gaffney, [[Arts]] '93
|
|- valign="top"
|[[1991]]-[[1992]]
|Records missing.
|
|- valign="top"
|[[1990]]-[[1991]]
|Records missing.
|
|- valign="top"
|[[1989]]-[[1990]]
|Matthew Kohl, [[GS]] '90
|
|- valign="top"
|[[1988]]-[[1989]]
|Tom Kamber, [[Columbia College|CC]] '89
|
|- valign="top"
|[[1987]]-[[1988]]
|Ellen Ostrick Knight, [[Columbia College|CC]] '88, [[Law]] '91
|
|- valign="top"
|[[1986]]-[[1987]]
|Records missing.
|
|- valign="top"
|[[1985]]-[[1986]]
|Steve Cancian, [[Columbia College|CC]] '86
|
|}

== Board of Visitors ==

The Board of Visitors of the Student Affairs Committee was established in 2010 by SAC Chair [[Tao Tan]] and SAC Chair Emeritus [[Chris Riano]]. The Board of Visitors is charged with serving as an "advisory body to the Student Affairs Committee, and will be composed of those alumni who ... exemplified the highest ideals of leadership while at Columbia University, and who continue to achieve the highest levels of success within their chosen profession."

The Board possesses a tripartite mandate:
* To support and assist the current members of the Student Affairs Committee on a non-executive advisory basis.
* To pass on institutional knowledge and, when necessary, facilitate introductions and relationships that have served student Senators well in the past.
* To serve as a development vehicle to support the activities of the Student Affairs Committee.

=== Membership and Election ===

The Board of Visitors consists of nine members, with one class of three elected every year. The Board is self-perpetuating and elects by its own processes two of the three seats. The third is elected from a list of nominees provided by the current Student Affairs Committee in consultation with the Alumni Affairs Committee of the [[University Senate]].<ref>[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/senate/archives/reports_archive/10-11/sac_boardofvisitors_statutes_2011.pdf Statutes of the Board of Visitors of the Student Affairs Committee]</ref>

Each Visitor serves for a three-year term, renewable once. [[Emeritus]] status can be conferred upon the end of service by a majority vote of the seated board.

Honorary Visitors are appointed in extraordinary circumstances by unanimous consent for individual alumni "of particular merit and accomplishment, and who have a long and successful record of encouraging and fostering student involvement in University governance."

Alumni of the Student Affairs Committee who have served for at least one year are eligible for membership one year following graduation from the Columbia University degree program wherein the University Senate service took place. Visitors may not concurrently serve as student or alumni Senators.

=== Current Board ===

The seated Board of Visitors is as follows.

{|
|- style="background:#DDDDDD;"
| '''Name'''
| '''Senate Service'''
| '''Board Term'''
|- valign="top"
|[[Chris Riano]], [[GS]] '07, ''Chair''
|[[2005]]-[[2007]]
|[[2010]]-[[2013]]
|- valign="top"
|Adam Michaels, [[Columbia Business School|Business]] '06, ''Vice Chair''
|[[2004]]-[[2006]]
|[[2010]]-[[2013]]
|- valign="top"
|[[Roosevelt Montás]], [[Columbia College|CC]] '95, [[MA]] '96, [[MPhil]] '99, [[PhD]] (English) '04
|[[1999]]-[[2003]]
|[[2010]]-[[2013]]
|- valign="top"
|[[Matan Ariel]], [[GS]] '06, [[Columbia Business School|Business]] '11
|[[2003]]-[[2005]]
|[[2011]]-[[2014]]
|- valign="top"
|Justin White, [[GS]] '05, [[Columbia Business School|Business]] '07
|[[2001]]-[[2003]]
|[[2011]]-[[2014]]
|- valign="top"
|Rebecca Baldwin Fuller, [[Nursing]] '04, [[Nursing]] '07
|[[2004]]-[[2006]]
|[[2011]]-[[2014]]
|- valign="top"
|TBD
|
|[[2012]]-[[2015]]
|- valign="top"
|TBD
|
|[[2012]]-[[2015]]
|- valign="top"
|TBD
|
|[[2012]]-[[2015]]
|}

== External links ==
* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/senate/committeepages/studentaffairs.html Student Affairs Committee website]

== References ==
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