Elections
Election Resources to help your student organization's leadership elections run smoothly.
Election Resources
General election info & rules, campaigning guidelines, and other parameters for MBA student organizations.
Instructions for how to set up MBA club elections in HoyaConnect.
Instructions for posting LOIs and speech recordings in HoyaConnect.
Sample Letters of Intent (LOIs), the document candidates will submit to run for election.
Election Timeline Fall 2023
Information session on getting involved at MSB and the upcoming leadership elections:
Click here for the elections presentation with details on election timelines, LOI submission, sample LOIs, campaign rules, etc.
Elections Restrictions
(FT) Eligibility to Hold an SGA Role + Other Leadership Roles
Voting members of the Student Government Association-FT are not permitted to be Presidents or Executive Vice Presidents of Student Organizations.
SGA representatives can be on the board of student organizations in non-President/EVP roles.
Cohort representatives can be Presidents/EVPs of student organizations.
FT Cohort Reps CAN be SGA-FT President/EVP/VPs.
FX Cohort Reps CANNOT be SGA-FX President/EVP/VPs.
Eligibility to Hold Multiple Club Leadership Roles
A student cannot be the President or EVP of more than one MBA student organization.
A student can be President and EVP of one organization and also hold non-President/EVP board positions on other organization boards.
Campaign Rules and LOI Submission
Campaigning is asking or encouraging someone to vote for you.
You may ask students for their thoughts and opinions to inform your LOI, but you may not ask or encourage them to vote for you or publicly campaign through posters, social media, speeches, etc. before the deadline.
Campaigning is only allowed once the LOIs have been publicly posted by the SGA.
No outside money (other than printing dollars, see below) may be used in the campaign process.
Posters or flyers can only be distributed in the Commons, not in other parts of Hariri.
Printing dollars are the only form of money that may be used in the campaigning process.
Each P/EVP slate will be allowed to send one email through each of their respective class (FT/FX) listservs.
Any violation(s) of any of these rules or regulations will result in a withdrawal from the ticket and the student in violation will not be permitted to run for their desire permission.
Negative campaigning in any form against another candidate is not allowed and is grounds for disqualification.
