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SGA Opens School Year with Two New Resolutions

SGA Administration 2022 | Photo by Jamie Naylor | The Wright State Guardian


Wright State University’s student governing organization began the new academic term with the introduction of two resolutions and the appointment of two new members and one returning member. 

New administration 

The Student Government Association, headed by President Blake Bailey and Vice President Brandon Blair, held its first session on Aug. 23. 

After introductions, reports and the appointments of the College of Liberal Arts Senator, Cameron Haught, the Director of Academic Affairs, Aliesha Knauer and the Director of Student Organizations, Sierra Hinton, the body began to discuss resolutions and initiatives for the upcoming semester. 

23-1

Introduced and sponsored by Bailey, resolution 23-1, or the ‘Establishment of the Strategic Initiatives for Student Experience’ plan, aims to create a task force focused on increasing student involvement on campus via a social space.

“Wright State’s Dayton campus lacks a social environment conducive to relationship building,” Bailey said in the resolution.

According to Bailey, the task force would comprise SGA and non-SGA students along with staff and faculty, and it would research how to build a social space on campus in the form of a sports bar.

Commuter Senator Alaina Collins raised questions on the nominating process for the task force. Bailey explained that he would be the sole nominator and decider of task force members.

“I would go ahead and nominate them and that [would] be the end of the story,” Bailey said. 

The president did not specify if the discussions and suggestions of the task force would be presented to the SGA senate nor was a timeline presented for the project. 

23-2

In conjunction with new WSU Provost Amy Thompson, the second resolution, 23-2, addresses SGA’s endorsement of the new midterm grade initiative. 

Thompson, present at the meeting, discussed how the new policy would recommend and eventually require professors to post grades to Pilot or on-banner in the middle of the term. 

The project focuses on increasing retention numbers by informing students of class progress, according to Thompson. 

“Our retention rate is around 63%, 64% between freshman and sophomore year, and we need to do much, much better than that,” Thompson said. 

The policy is strongly recommended for professors to partake in fall 2022 and would be required for spring 2023. The policy does not apply to A or B-term classes, according to the provost.

Student government endorsed the plan through the 23-2 resolution. Both 23-1 and 23-2 resolutions were approved to be moved to old business and will be voted on in the next public SGA meeting. 

SGA’s next public meeting will occur on Tuesday, Aug. 30 at 7 p.m. in the Atlantis room in the Student Union and online via Webex.


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