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This page contains comments posted by members of the Cornell community pertaining to Relationship with the Administration in the Student Assembly. Before posting to this forum, please read the comments below to make sure that the information you are providing is pertinent to the discussion. Comments are especially valuable if they add new information or points of view.

Initial Findings

Operationally, the Student Assembly reports directly to the university president. Administratively, the Student Assembly reports through the Office of the Assemblies to the Vice President of Communication.

The Student Assembly must strike a balance between its advisory role for senior administrators and its governance responsibilities for the undergraduate community. The Student Assembly must have a visible and accessible workspace.

Senior administrators continue to be very responsive to initiatives from the Student Assembly, and its senior leadership continues to serve as the undergraduate representatives on a number of university committees.

Potential Solutions

1. The Student Assembly should respectfully request that the university president make a once / semester presentation to the Student Assembly with regard to those goals that are relevant to campus life and student activities.
2. The Student Assembly should respectfully request that the university provost and vice provost for undergraduate education consult the Student Assembly when selecting a book for the New Student Reading Project. The announcement of the New Student Reading Project should be made at a Student Assembly meeting during the spring semester.
3. The university should provide the leadership of the Student Assembly with effective office space. Currently, the space allotted to the Student Assembly is less than fifty square feet in an inaccessible section of Willard Straight Hall.
4. The Student Assembly President and Executive Vice President, soon to be popularly elected, must continue to be perceived as the official spokespersons for the undergraduate community.

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