A newsletter for the students, faculty and staff of the Collin County Community College District. Published monthly. For information or submissions, call 972.758.3849. Cougar News welcomes student and faculty submissions. Next deadline: Sept. 10. All submissions are due by 5 p.m. on the due date. Photos cannot be returned. Text should be emailed to mrobinson@ccccd.edu or sent on disk. Please submit copy that is proofed, edited and saved in Word format. Cougar News staff: Lisa Vasquez, director; Mark Robinson, editor; Marcy Cadena-Smith, contributor; Sydney Portilla-Diggs, student correspondent; Stephanie Hall, student correspondent; Ana Colores Palmer, student correspondent; Nick Young, photographer; Layout by Publications
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SGA courts big plans for new year
By Ana Colores Palmer, Student Correspondent
The Student Government Association (SGA) is planning to enhance the college experience for students, faculty, staff and the community in the new school year. With the new year comes a new president.
Last May, the SGA organized elections to choose a new president for the organization. Justin Stuart won the election.
Stuart plans to finish a nursing major and attend medical school. He dreams of becoming a cardiac surgeon. Stuart enjoys playing cello, and he will perform in the Mesquite Symphony this season. Stuart has several proposals for the 2005-06 year.
His commitment for the fall semester will be to improve our college experience and to organize a charitable event to bring our community and student population together.
“Academics are good here, but now we need to go to the next level which is activities, things to do,” Stuart said.
The plans for this fall also include organizing a charitable event for the holiday season.
The idea will be to bring all the students who want to volunteer and the students groups to work together, so the event can be more effective and can benefit the local community. Also, he is interested in recruiting more people to participate in the SGA. He invites all the students to come and talk to him or the senators and bring ideas that will benefit the school and the students. The SGA mission is to serve as the voice that represents the student body at Collin.
This organization addresses issues that affect the student community and promotes all students rights. The SGA Executive Committee has a president, vice president of internal affairs, a vice president of external affairs, a secretary, a treasurer, a campus senate chair for each campus, at large senator representative and a primary advisor.
Any student interested in the SGA can visit their website at http://sga.ccccd.edu or e-mail Stuart at jstuart@ccccd.edu.
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