{"id":1059,"date":"2020-11-04T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/studentlife\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2022-06-03T09:27:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T13:27:09","slug":"what-is-sga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/studentlife\/2020\/11\/04\/what-is-sga\/","title":{"rendered":"What is SGA?"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019ve been loosely following Cedarville the last few months, you have probably seen the three letters S, G, and A pop up often. You may have seen the Instagram posts with the people of SGA giving announcements, preaching, or partaking in fun videos to promote campus events. If you\u2019re like me, you are probably asking, what is SGA? What do they do and will SGA affect me?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Mission<\/b>: SGA stands for the Student Government Association at Cedarville University. The main mission of SGA is to be a voice for the students, voice of the administration, and build campus morale.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Make-Up<\/b>: SGA is a large organization, but it has four main officers: <\/span>President, Vice President, Chaplain, and Senior Class President<\/b>. Under those four officers fall three branches of SGA: The Board of Directors, Class Council, and the SGA Worship Band.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The first is the <\/span>board of directors,<\/b> which consists of Campus Community Director, the Involvement Directors, the Events Director, and the SGA Worship Leader. This branch of SGA works to build campus-wide community around a centralized vision. SGA\u2019s vision for the 2020-2021 school year is \u201cPress In.\u201d Each of the events that SGA puts on are centered around the theme to \u201c<\/span>press into<\/span> Christ and community\u201d together.<\/span>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Another branch of SGA is called <\/span>Class Council<\/b>. Class Council is designed to fulfill SGA\u2019s vision within their classes as a whole. This branch of SGA works to hear student feedback and put on events for their class. Class Council consists of four major positions for each class, President, Vice President, Chaplain, and Women\u2019s Ministry Leader. The Class President\u2019s role is to lead their class and be a voice to the Senior Class President for their specific class. The Vice President records the details of an event and assists the President in their tasks. The Class Chaplain preaches in chapel to the student body once every semester and participates in a weekly chaplains council meeting. Lastly, the Women’s Ministry Leaders for each class work together to produce a \u201cWomanhood\u201d event and serve the women in their class with whatever they need.<\/span><\/p>\n

The last branch of SGA is the <\/span>SGA Worship Band<\/b>. This branch fulfills SGA\u2019s vision by leading worship in SGA chapels, worship nights, and Thursday Night Lives. The SGA worship band works with the SGA chaplain to produce SGA chapels that occur 14 times during the academic year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

How do you actively participate with this branch of SGA?<\/b> Answer: The executives of SGA are elected by the student body during the spring semester of each year, and their term starts during the fall semester of the next year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a basic description about the different roles of the positions of SGA:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n