UMass Dartmouth Student Senate

The Student Senate represents all students by popular election, and functions on the UMass Dartmouth campus through its student senators. This body is the voice of the student in school affairs, as members are appointed to serve on various faculty and administrative committees. One of the primary functions of the Student Senate is to approve the formation of new organizations and to provide funding so that the interest of every student group is represented. The Senate consists of 36 senators who are elected to a one year term in the spring semester: three from each of the four classes; one representing commuters and another, the residents, one from graduate students, one from Professional and Continuing Education, and twenty from the five colleges based on proportions. On the Student Activities web site the Senate is referred to as the SGA, or Student Government Association, however, in the records themselves it is referred to almost exclusively as the Student Senate.