Student Government Association

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The Student Government Association is the governing body of the students at the Missouri Academy. Most everything done at the Academy, from Prom to Policy revisions, comes from SGA, originating in a committee and manifesting itself in the General Assembly

SGA News

'"Officers for the 2011-2012 Executive Board"

  • President - Jeremiah Robertson
  • Vice President - Jesse Pyatt
  • Secretary - Carl Slagle
  • Treasurer - Chris Everett
  • First year Executive - Nabig Chaudhry

Officers for the 2010-2011 Executive Board'

Note: The positions of Vice President of Internal Affairs and Vice President of External Affairs were consolidated into one position (Vice President) following the 2009-2010 school year.

  • President - Garrett Meyer
  • Vice President - Jillian Bueno
  • Secretary - Jennie Ransom
  • Treasurer - Peter Sable
  • First Year Executive - Jeremiah Robertson

Officers for the 2009-2010 Executive Board

  • President - Clayton Buback
  • Vice President of Internal Affairs - Nathan Engle
  • Vice President of External Affairs - Shivani Singh
  • Secretary - Erica Smith/ Jayde Moran (May Session only)
  • Treasurer - Penny Wang
  • First Year Executive - Jillian Bueno

Officers of the 2008-2009 Executive Board

  • President - Phillip Venice
  • Vice President of Internal Affairs - Cameron Wolschlaeger
  • Vice President of External Affairs - Deanna MacMillan (First Semester), Maggie Doerge (Second Semester)
  • Secretary - Amanda Foster
  • Treasurer - George Ransom

Components of the SGA

The SGA is made up of:

Executive Board

The Executive Board ensures that the performance of the SGA is at an acceptable quality. The Executive Board is voted upon by the student body has many responsibilities. The Executive Board is made up of:

President

The current President of SGA is Jeremiah Robertson.

Duties:

  • Presides over the SGA regular meetings, executive meetings, and open meetings
  • Prepares an agenda and is responsible for the distribution of the agenda to the SGA members
  • Maintains order and gives members of the SGA the floor
  • Suspends members of the SGA's speaking privileges if members of the SGA are out of order
  • Holds the highest position that is neutral to the policy of the SGA and must have no vote
  • Appoints a Parliamentarian/Sergeant at Arms.
  • Represents the Missouri Academy at all meetings of Hall Council Presidents of the Northwest Missouri State University Association.
  • Attends the annual meeting of the Association of Consortium Student Governments (ACSG).
  • Appoints a first-year student to serve as the Missouri Academy's ACSG representative, as defined by the ACSG constitution.
  • Serves as or appoints the President of the Development Attach�.
  • Creates Task Committees where they see fit.
  • Meet weekly with the Dean of the Missouri Academy and/or the Director of Student Development

Vice President

The current Vice President of SGA is Jesse Pyatt.


Duties:

  • Presides over the SGA meetings in the absence of the President.
  • Holds the highest position with a vote.
  • Chairs or appoints a chairperson to each standing sub-committee of the Student Government Association.
  • Oversees each standing sub-committee of the Student Government Association.
  • Works with the Student Activities Coordinator.

Secretary

The current Secretary of SGA is Carl Slagle.

Duties:

  • Records minutes of all SGA meetings and is responsible for distributing the minutes to the members of SGA
  • Maintains records of wing game points in the absence of a Student Activities Coordinator

Treasurer

The current Treasurer of SGA is Chris Everett.

Duties:

  • Formulates a budget for the SGA
  • Organizes the trimesterly philanthropic project

First Year Executive

The current First Year Executive of SGA is Nabig Chaudhry. The First Year Executive is elected by the entirety of the First Year class.

Duties:

  • Represents the ideals and values of the First Year Class on the Executive Board
  • Maintains the Missouri Academy Student Government Facebook page
  • Maintains the Student Government Association Bulletin board located in the hot box
  • Observes the executive board in order to help with the transition between boards

Wing Representative President

The position of Wing Rep. President is rotating, changing roughly once a month. Each Wing Rep. get a turn at the position, and the order is chosen randomly.

Duties:

Special Members

Special Members are appointed

Student Senate Representative

The current Student Senate Representative of SGA is Jaeyeon Hur.

Duties:

  • Acts as the liaison between the Academy students to the Northwest Student Senate
  • Keeps the Academy students informed about pressing campus issues
  • Attends campus meetings where Academy students will be affected in anyway
  • Abides by the Northwest Student Senate constitutions

Parliamentarian

The current Parliamentarian of SGA is Scott Larson.

Duties:

  • Maintains order in all SGA meetings
  • Remains competent of parliamentary procedure
  • Organizes the senior gift
  • Oversees all elections

Residence Hall Association Head Delegate

The current Residence Hall Association Head Delegate is HooJung Rhim

Duties:

Association of Consortium of Student Governments (ACSG) Representative

The current ACSG Representative is

Duties:

Committee Chairman

The Chairman of the SGA committees are listed here.

Duties:

Wing Representatives

Wing Representatives are the bulk of MASGA. Wing reps take the information they gather from the SGA meetings and disperse it to separate wings and then brings their wing's opinions to the SGA meetings.

Duties:

  • Acts as the liaison between SGA and the respective wings
  • Presents the information from SGA meetings in weekly wing meetings
  • Attends all SGA meetings
  • Attends all Wing Game Committee meetings

Associated Representatives

Associated Representatives are members of the Student Government Association that were not elected to SGA. Associated Representatives gain voting rights through attending five meetings of the Missouri Academy Student Government Association.

Advisor

The SGA Advisor is the person who sits in our meetings and makes sure everything going on is legitimate. Of course, this job falls onto the shoulders of the Director of Student Development who is Dr. Sam Jennings II, as well as Residential Counselor Sean Eddington.

Who He is

Duties:

  • Attends all SGA meetings
  • Works with the Treasurer on the budget
  • Okays everything going through SGA
  • Acts as the liaison between the Staff and SGA

Committees

Most of the SGA business is supposed to run mainly from committee which give weekly reports to the SGA.

- Student Activities Committee (Chairperson: Codi Hefner)
- Residential Life Committee (Chairperson: Joe Kurtz)
- Academic Interests Committee (Chairperson: Shivani Singh and Penny Wang)
- Second Year Experience Committee (Chairperson: Chris Pohlmeier)
- Institutional Advancement Committee (Chairperson: Courtney Flood and Garrett Meyer)

Executives and Committee Chairperson Confusion

At one point, there were committees in SGA that were required to be chaired by certain executive members. However, this consolidates extreme amounts of SGA influence in the hands of very few, and limits the amount of involvement by non-executive individuals. It can also lead to conflicts of interest on the Executive Board and possible corruption, as the Vice President appoints all committee chairs.

Because of this, the current SGA policy is to exclude Executives from being committee chairs, although it is not Constitutionally forbidden. The reason it is not forbidden is for cases similar to the one in the Spring of 2009, where the only active first-year members of some committees were incoming-executives (Even in this case, one of the committees chaired by executives was transitioned to non-executives in January of 2010). Excluding this special case, it is highly recommend that Executive members refrain from committee chairmanship.

Major Accomplishments

Since it's creation, SGA has contributed much to the Missouri Academy Community. Below are the major examples of such contributions. Much of what SGA does, however, are year-to-year activities, such as prom, maintaining the building through the Residential Life Committee, etc. For this reason, attempting to enumerate every achievement of SGA would be an impossible task. The achievements listed below are non-typical, and serve as instances where SGA as an organization took it upon itself to go above and beyond the typical and expected activities:

2007-2008

  • Removing the GPA requirement for seniors having Extended Curfew privileges
  • Altering the cell-phone policy to allow students to keep their cell-phones overnight. Previously, all cell phone were collected by RCs after on-floor curfew.

2008-2009

  • Creating the ELMS program for May Session. Previously, all students were required to do mandatory community service during May. Recommended revision to May Session was not new, and it could be argued that this was somehow connected to the sentiments of students of earlier years who drafted The Great May Classes Petition of 2004. The ELMS program, however, proved to be generally successful in the May Session of 2009.
  • Hosting the first SGA-sponsored college fair. College fairs had been hosted by the Academy before, but due to the location of the city of Maryville, lack of surrounding schools, and rival fair by Maryville High, the idea was abandoned by the Admin in the early 2000's. This event marked the renewal of the yearly event, this time run by students. A method of overcoming the challenges facing hosting a Maryville college fair would not be discovered until the next year, however, and the fall 2009 fair had only 15 schools and only Missouri Academy students attended.
  • Pushing for the creation of a Graduate Assistant position to oversee the Alumni Association and Parents Association. Jessica Platt was hired in the fall of 2009 for this purpose.

2009-2010

  • Hosting the second-SGA sponsored college fair (see above). Initially, the Admin was strongly opposed to this idea for several reasons. For one, the Admin did not want to get on the bad side of Maryville High. In addition, there was fear that a poor college fair would reflect poorly on the Academy as an institution. The student idea for solving this was to simply take the fair of Maryville High (organized by the Missouri Association of College Admission Counseling, or MOACAC), and host it at Northwest. This was negotiated with the counselor of Maryville High, and when the Admin discovered that Maryville High was more than willing to give up the fair (something the counselors there saw as a burden), they jumped on board with the idea. In the fall of 2009, the fair had 43 colleges present, with 470 high school students in attendance. This was a tremendous increase from the previous year, and solidified the fair as (for now) a repeatable event. Benefits from this were not only for the students attending the fair, but also for the Academy. The fair provided an opportunity for colleges and high school students to learn more about the Academy, and spread the word of about us. In short, it was a major success for SGA.
  • Hard Mic Cafe

Contact Information

You can contact the SGA by either talking to a member of SGA, emailing them as individuals, or going to the SGA facebook page (StuGov, run by the First Year Executive).

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