ASSEMBLY COMMITTEES & OFFICERS

The UPUA Assembly is composed of seven standing committees and seven officers. The officers include an Assembly Overall Chair who also serves as the chair for the Steering Committee and six Chairs of the following committees:

1. Academic Affairs Committee
2. Internal Development
3. Governmental Affairs
4. Special Events/Programming
5. Student Life/Diversity/Campus Relations
6. Facilities
7. Steering

COMMITTEE DESCRIPTION

Steering Committee

The Steering Committee is composed of all standing committee chairs and chaired by the Assembly Chair. The President, Vice-President, Clerk, and Secretary shall be considered non-voting members with floor privileges. The committee shall assign representatives, based on their preferences, to standing committees, vote to recommend students to fill Representative vacancies, review all legislation for grammar and formatting, ensure that legislation was reviewed properly by the committee for which it came, and otherwise coordinate the activities of the Assembly.

Academic Affairs Committee

Retain a Committee Chair who is a College, DUS, or the UPUA Representative to the Faculty Senate as a whole who sits on the Undergraduate Education Committee, as prescribed by the Bylaws and Standing Rules of the University Faculty Senate, and the Academic Council on
256 Undergraduate Education(ACUE). Have the jurisdiction over all matters academic, including appointing members to all ACUE Committees, with the exception of the University Committee on Instructional Service (UCIF). Serve as a forum to focus student concerns regarding academics and relay those concerns to the academic councils, deans, administration, and University Faculty Senate.

Internal Development

Serve to coordinate and refine all internal activity of the Assembly and UPUA. Be charged with reviewing and revising the Elections Code, Constitution, Bylaws, and other governing documents. Be charged with investigating any matter internal to the UPUA. Be charged with reviewing all presidential nominations and budgets, including but not limited to election commissioners and directors.

Governmental Affairs

Have jurisdiction to identify and assess issues within the realm of: Judicial Affairs, State
government, local government, and university policy. Coordinate relations with other governing entities affecting students at University Park by: Investigating laws, procedures, rules, or policies having effects on students. Plan and organize, with the appropriate Directors of the Executive Board, tuition and other rallies. Sit on Borough Council Committees where a student seat has been provided.

Special Events/Programming

Have jurisdiction to identify events and programs that may be of importance to the student body. Organize and plan informational student events and programs that are necessary and beneficial to the student public. Organize and plan events of leisure internal and external to the UPUA. All events shall be coordinated and executed with the proper Directors of the Executive Board and the Student Programming Association (SPA).

Student Life/ Diversity

Have jurisdiction to identify and assess issues within the realm of: housing, food services, residence life, off-campus living, counseling and psychological services, disability services, and student health. Have jurisdiction over issues of campus climate that effect, but are not limited to, the protected classes defined by the University.

Facilities

Have jurisdiction to identify and assess issues within the realm of CATA, travel, lighting, safety, Events Management, HUB operations, OPP, and parking. Ensure that UPUA has a member on the University Committee on Instructional Service (UCIF), the Student Energy Conservation Task Force (SECT), the HUB Advisory Board, the Student Energy Conservation Task Force (SECT), and the student run Sustainability Coalition.