Veronica Gipson, Student Government Reporter
• April 2, 2024
Despite approving a raise in tuition rates, EIU’s student government denied a bill to raise the grant-in-aid fee which covers tuition and talented student awards.
The student senate’s meeting on...
To increase student turnout, student government held a meet and greet for students to meet the 2023-2024 Executive Officers and Senators.
“Please join us for our general body meeting on November...
Speaker of the senate Karolina Guzek led Eastern's student government through its starting normal procedures, before handing the floor over to Eastern's President Jay Gatrell Wednesday night at 7th...
Student senators unanimously voted in support of a new resolution to increase the number of credit hours for a political science class, at the weekly student government meeting on Wednesday.
Senate...
Nidhi Patel is a senior majoring in finance with a minor in marketing. She acts as Eastern's Student Body President and will hold this title for the 2023-2024 school year.
Patel grew up and went...
Katja Benz, Student Government Reporter
• April 19, 2023
During the last student senate meeting of the semester, the senate approved 11 bills, including fee and budget boards.
These bills were presented at the last meeting, on April 12, and the meeting...
Katja Benz, Student Government Reporter
• April 14, 2023
Student Government watched three budget presentations at Wednesday’s meeting while also meeting quorum with 12 senators out of the 11 needed to meet quorum present.
These presentations came...
Katja Benz, Student Government Reporter
• April 7, 2023
The student senate met quorum for the first time this semester, with all fifteen senators present.
Allie Painter, a junior middle level education major, Ameenah Morris, a sophomore philosophy...
Katja Benz, Student Government Reporter
• February 23, 2023
The student senate has not met quorum all semester, with five meetings under their belts.
There were 11 of the 15 senators present at the meeting. In order to meet quorum, there are fifteen senators...
Katja Benz, Student Government Reporter
• February 2, 2023
With 11 of the 15 senators needed to meet quorum, the student senate failed to meet quorum for the second week in a row.
Because of quorum being unmet, senator James Haddon, a freshman digital...
Student Government is holding an accessibility forum to address current and future work being done to improve accessibility on campus on Thursday at 2 p.m. in the University Ballroom in the the Martin...
Katja Benz, Student Government Reporter
• December 2, 2022
Karolina Guzek, a sophomore political science major, became the Speaker of the Student Senate on Wednesday in the 7th Street Underground loft. Previous speaker Jasmine Yusef’s term came to an end that...
