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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.
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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.
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Revision as of 12:26, 30 April 2011

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 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 (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 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.

Year Chair/Co-Chairs Annual Report
2011-2012 Alex Frouman, CC '12
Adil Ahamed, Business '12
2010-2011 Tao Tan, CC '07, Business '11 Link to Report
2009-2010 Andreas Svedin, PhD (Astronomy) '12 Link to Report
2008-2009 Genevieve Thornton, CC '02, Business '09
Amena Cheema, Arts '09
Link to Report
2007-2008 Andrea Hauge, CC '02, Business '08
John Johnson, Law '08
Link to Report
2006-2007 Chris Riano, GS '07
Marcus Johnson, CC '07
Link to Report
2005-2006 Adam Michaels, Business '06
Holly Snow, Barnard '06
Link to Report
2004-2005 Matan Ariel, GS '05, Business '11
Nathan Walker, MA (TC) '02, MDiv (UTS) '05, EdM (TC) '08, EdD (TC) '13
Link to Report
2003-2004 Matan Ariel, GS '05, Business '11
Brian Tobin, MPH '05
Nathan Walker, MA (TC) '02, MDiv (UTS) '05, EdM (TC) '08, EdD (TC) '13
Link to Report
2002-2003 Roosevelt Montás, CC '95, MA '96, MPhil '99, PhD (English) '04
Jerald Boak, CC '95, Arts '04
Marni Hall, MA '01, MPH '05, PhD (Public Health) '07
Link to Report
2001-2002 Rohit Aggarwala, CC '93, MPhil '98, Business '00, PhD (History) '02
Roosevelt Montás, CC '95, MA '96, MPhil '99, PhD (English) '04
Link to Report
2000-2001 Rohit Aggarwala, CC '93, MPhil '98, Business '00, PhD (History) '02 Link to Report
1999-2000 Rohit Aggarwala, CC '93, MPhil '98, Business '00, PhD (History) '02 Link to Report
1998-1999 Records missing
1997-1998 Corby Dale, MPH '95, MA '98, MPhil '00, PhD (Psychology) '00
1996-1997 Montimer "Monty" Mason, GS '97
Joshua Ratner, CC '98, Law '02
1995-1996 Frank David, MA '96, MPhil '96, PhD (Pathobiology) '00, MD '01
1994-1995 Records missing.
1993-1994 R. Shary Crossfield-Peguero, CC '91, Law '94 (Student Affairs Committee)
Mitchell Wong, CC '94 (Student Caucus)
1992-1993 Eric Finseth, Law '94
Sean Gaffney, Arts '93
1991-1992 Records missing.
1990-1991 Records missing.
1989-1990 Matthew Kohl, GS '90
1988-1989 Tom Kamber, CC '89
1987-1988 Ellen Ostrick Knight, CC '88, Law '91
1986-1987 Records missing.
1985-1986 Steve Cancian, CC '86

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