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Overview

Questions concerning specific committees can be directed to representatives listed below. In order to increase the effectiveness, efficiency, and accountability of committees, the SGA Administrative Chair publishes monthly Committee Reports. Please contact Chris Cho for more information.

College Committees

Contact: Melissa Glenn

  • 4 students
  • Meets every Tuesday, 4-5 PM
  • Oversees the curriculum and all
  • educational policy.

Contact: Rebecca Conry

  • 5 students
  • Meets: TBD
  • Oversees infractions of academic integrity
  • Students provide input on cases of dishonesty regarding the following:
    • Plagiarism
  • Academic integrity is the practice of being honest in all your academic endeavors. It includes:
    • Giving credit to everyone whose work you rely on.
    • Clearly distinguishing between your work and others’ work.
    • Following course rules designed to help you and others learn and be accurately assessed on your learning.
    • Being careful and thorough in your research and in communicating the results of your research.

Contact: Doug Terp, Rose Meunier

  • 2 students (including the Treasurer of Executive Board)
  • Meets: TBD
  • Oversees the management and organization of the school budget.

Contact: Caitlin Kane, Karlene Burrell-McRae

  • 5 students
  • Meets every Monday, 4-5 PM
  • Oversees the co-curricular program, and formulates and recommends policies concerning student life to appropriate bodies (e.g. to Faculty and to SGA), excluding curriculum and academic requirements.

Contact: Jon-Mark Olivier

  • 8 students (including at least 2 seniors, 2 juniors, and 2 sophomores. Recommendations submitted by the Student Government Association based on application process)
  • Meets: TBD
  • Presides over cases involving nonacademic wrongdoing and recommends specific action to the Dean of Students. The Student Conduct Board schedule is determined as cases are brought before the board.

Administrator & Faculty Committees

Contact: Dan LaFave

  • 4 students
  • Meets: TBD
  • Addresses Colby admissions policy and direction; advises Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid.

Contact: Dan LaFave

  • 3 students
  • Meets: TB
  • Oversees the state and direction of athletics at Colby.

Contact: Justin Becknell

  • 4 students
  • Meets: TBD
  • Provides ITS with student opinions regarding technology concerns, increasing technological accessibility, and how to augment the overall ITS experience for students.

Contact: Nancy Downey

  • 3 students
  • Meets: TBD
    Aids in developing and recommending policy regarding foreign and domestic off-campus study to the appropriate college bodies
  • Reviews periodic reports from the director of off-campus study regarding:
    • Evaluations of programs
    • The status of Colby programs abroad and any changes made in these programs
    • OCS advising and the integration of off-campus study with department and interdisciplinary program curricula
    • Makes recommendations for action on student applications with regards to off-campus study
    • Hears and acts on appeals from students who wish to contest the disposition of their application for off-campus study
    • Meets once a year with OCS faculty and student liaisons to discuss general issues relating to off-campus study

Contact: Bob Williams

  • 2+ students
  • Meets: TBD
  • Created to improve transparency between Security and the student body.
  • Students on this committee will represent the student opinion in conversations with Security and Campus Life.
  • This committee also addresses student parking ticket appeals

SGA Student-Led Committees

Contact: Rich Backstrom, Stephanie Sylvester

  • 2+ students
  • Meets: TBD
  • Addresses the state of dining services, looks over dining hall review cards, and discusses requests made by students.

Contact: Tivis Hall

  • Led by Executive Board Treasurer
  • Meets: TBD
  • Oversees the approval of funds for student requests.

Contact: Jordan McClintock, Nischal Khatri

  • Meets: TBD
  • Student-led committee focusing on diversity initiatives at Colby

Contact: Mike Blasco, Dan Cline

  • 2+ students
  • Meets: TBD
  • Addresses student demands concerning housing, apartments placements (Alfond Apartments and Alfond Commons), and overall housing policies.

Contact: Cheshta Prasad

  • Led by the Executive Board
  • Community Engagement Chair
  • Meets: TBD
  • Works to build a community between students living in the Downtown Commons and students living on campus.
  • Aids in the student body’s acclimation to the new official housing off campus.

Contact: Jason Leong

  • Run by the Executive Board
  • Parliamentarian
  • Meets: TBD
  • Oversees the approvals of new clubs on campus, consolidates old clubs, and ensures proper club registration occurs.

Contact: Abby Recko

  • Meets: Every other Wednesday 8-9PM in the SGA office
  • Focuses on and brainstorms ways to creatively publicize the activities and events of SGA (ones that SGA hosts as well as ones that SGA sponsors).

Contact: Ben Guth and Georgia Freeland

  • Focuses on the planning and execution of current Colby student traditions (e.g. Fall Ball, Spontaneous Fun Day, Doghead, Admitted Students Weekend, etc).
  • Discusses the creation of new traditions and the reinstatement of old traditions.

Colby College
Office of the Dean of the College
5300 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, ME 04901-8853
P: 207-859-4000

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