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Tuition waiver cuts avoided, ASG slots re-examined
The Advocate
ASG Senator-at-large James Dezellem has created a committee to restructure the Associated Student Government positions and job descriptions in order to make the ASG “more efficient,” according to ASG Sen. Stephen Floyd.
There have been meetings the last two Wednesdays to talk about the restructure. Eight members of the ASG, including three executive cabinet members and five senators, were present during the meeting.
“Many senators-at-large feel limited in ways they can contribute due to vague job descriptions,” said Floyd. “They have to exercise a lot of initiative and creativity to come up with something to do. Senators of departments have job descriptions (such as allied health senator), but senators-at-large don’t. Sen. Dezellem has put together the committee to make student government more efficient.”
Floyd said the idea for the committee was not an administrative or management idea, but purely the idea of Dezellem. He also said that they would not be cutting tuition waivers from ASG, but that it is up to Director of Student Life Robert Cox to determine how many tuition waivers are needed per year. “
“The ASG is able to dictate how many positions there are,” said Floyd. “We’ve had to shuffle around a lot of the tuition waivers this year. The idea is to have a more efficient student government.”
Floyd said that when Sam Pagano left the ASG as director of finance earlier in the year, there was no reason to fill the position because the budget had been passed and no more money would be spent. In that aspect, Floyd said, Pagano had “run out of work to do for ASG.”
Marcus Cosby’s position as director of communications was also not filled once he resigned because his job duties, according to Floyd, were already being done by many other senators and members of ASG. The duties include creation of fliers that many senators already make, as well as production of the “Red Saint” newsletters. Floyd said at Wednesday’s meeting there was talk of halting production of the newsletter to ease pressure on the position.
There is another meeting open to the public Wednesday, although a time has not been set.