Student Affairs Board (SAB) Meetings will take place monthly on Monday from 4:15-5:30 pm in 107 Lathrop.

Charge:

The boards' responsibilities include student services and activities, residence, student conduct and procedures for discipline, and other matters directly related to the extracurricular life of students of the university.

The Student Affairs Board has two functions: (1) Legislative The Student Affairs Board enacts appropriate legislative policies in the area of student affairs with two exceptions: major policy decisions or departures as defined by the president of the university are referred to the Conference Board; Matters pertaining to academic in­tegrity are referred to the Academic Affairs Board. (2) Advisory The board acts as an advisory group for the dean of the college and the dean’s staff, including the areas of residential life, fraternities and sororities, and student activities. In its advisory role, the board acts to review proposed policy changes in its area of responsibility.

The vice president of the Student Government Association reports issues under consideration and decisions by the Student Affairs Board to the Student Senate. Sense-of-the-Senate resolutions and suggested agenda items are conveyed to the Student Affairs Board by the same officer. A faculty member, chosen by the elected faculty members of the board, reports to the faculty on a regular basis and conveys sense-of-the faculty resolutions and suggested agenda items to the Student Affairs Board. Other agenda items relating to administrative policy changes may be brought to the board by the dean of the college, or the chair.

Legislation passed by the Student Affairs Board is reported to the Student Senate by the vice president of the Student Government Association. The Student Senate may, if it wishes, express disagreement and request the board to reconsider the legislation, pass it in amended form, or reject it. In either of the first two cases, the action of the board will become official university policy immediately unless remanded to the Conference Board by the president.

 The membership of the Student Affairs Board is as follows:

Dean of the College
President of the Student Government Association or Vice President of the Student Government Association
4 students
3 faculty (elected at-large by the Faculty for three-year terms, renewable once)
1 faculty (elected annually by the University Student conduct Board from its membership)

The four students are elected at-large by the Student Senate for one-year terms, which may be renewed as long as a student remains matriculated. The disciplinary officer and the director of the Office of Residential Life serve as non-voting consultants. The dean of the college annually appoints two additional staff members to serve as non-voting consultants. The board may appoint other non-voting consultants, as it deems appropriate.

The chair is elected yearly by the membership of the board and is entitled to vote on all matters. No proxy votes may be cast. If the president exercises the right to vote, it is in place of the dean of the college.

The Student Affairs Board has the power to establish, reconstitute, and abolish stand­ing committees. At least one member of each standing committee is drawn from the membership of the Student Affairs Board. The need for each standing committee must be reviewed every three years. All standing committees created by the board consist of faculty members elected by the faculty, students elected by the student senate, and other members as deemed appropriate by the board.

2023-2024 Membership:

President Casey (Ex Officio)                                        
Paul J. McLoughlin, VP & Dean of the College    
Jonathan Eaton '24/Harshitha Talasila '26, SGA  President/Vice-President                                          
Laura Makin                       2025 (AL) *                              
Brenton Sullivan             2025 (AL) **      
Ashley Taylor                    2024  (AL)                                   
Megan Brankley Abbas  (Faculty Conduct Bd. Rep.)  
Ellie Black '27
Sam Kresch '26
Maggie McCarthy '27
Lindsay Waldman '27          
*Replaced by Isla Globus-Harris (1 year)
**Replaced by Jacqueline Villarrubia (1 year)

Consultant, Non-voting
Joe Hernon, Associate VP, Campus Safety, EHS & Emergency Management
Lou Kaminski, Assistant Dean of Student Conduct 

Mo Muckinhaupt, Director of Residential Life

Abby Palko, Director of the Residential Commons Program
Morgan Snow, Interim Director, Student Involvement

Kim Taylor, Dean of Administrative Advising and Student Conduct