Hello, Gators!
My name is Susan Webster, and I am so excited to be your Student Body president-elect alongside Student Body Vice President-Elect Brendon Jonassaint and Student Body Treasurer-Elect Kishan Patel. UF’s continuing rise to top-10 status as a public institution presents an exciting opportunity for our Student Government, which I plan to ensure is inclusive, transparent and a vital part of the student experience. For that reason, I am happy to announce that applications for the executive branch of Student Government are now open!
During my tenure at UF, I have worked alongside so many student leaders with steadfast passion and tireless dedication to impacting the campus community, and I am looking for similarly minded individuals who want to ensure a bright future for the Gator Nation.
To accomplish this goal, I need hardworking individuals who all want to make a lasting difference. I need ideas that reflect the innovation and creativity that consistently moves our great university toward preeminence.
There are more than 40 positions available in the executive branch during the 2016-2017 term with a variety of roles and responsibilities, including, but not limited to, diversity affairs, community service, leadership development, governmental affairs and so much more.
Student Government not only provides ways and means to grow personally as a leader: It provides a campus community that future generations of students and all generations of alumni may look at with pride.
Under my supervision as Student Body president are agency heads and executive secretaries. Agency heads are responsible for initiatives connecting students to each other, to alumni, to different levels of government and even to celebrities. Offices include the Accent Speakers Bureau, Student Government Productions, Action SG and External Affairs. Executive secretaries are responsible for working as my advisers on a wide range of policy topics, including Academic Affairs, Satellite Affairs and Health Affairs.
Under the supervision of Vice President-Elect Brendon Jonassaint is the SG cabinet, which coordinates events and programming meant to impact, inform and inspire every Gator. Cabinet chairs coordinate the individual divisions of the cabinet, while cabinet directors produce events relating to a specific campus interest, such as community service or housing affairs.
Applications for SG executive positions can be found at sg.ufl.edu/applications.
Applications are due this Friday, April 1, by 5 p.m. If you have any questions about this process, please contact my chief of staff, Haley Smith, at haley.m.smith@ufl.edu.
I look forward to meeting so many of you and hearing about your ideas to move SG and the Gator Nation forward. Thank you, and Go Gators!
Susan Webster is the UF Student Body president-elect.
