Current Initiatives

Ongoing SGA initiatives and projects

Student Voice in Administrative Settings
SGA members serve on a wide range of committees and task forces, while also having regularly scheduled check-ins with various administrators. Members of our Executive Cabinet also attend Board of Trustees meetings each semester. At every meeting we attend, we advocate for student concerns and help make the changes you want to see.
Student Experience Survey
In order to better assess how students feel regarding various aspects of student life and academics, SGA is in the process of developing a survey to be shared to the entire student body. We will use the data collected to identify the areas where the university is strongest, and where there is the most room for growth.
SGA Week
SGA hosts events that reflect our three goals for the year. All UD students are welcome at any of these events.

Monday: Mental Health event outside Warner

Tuesday: RSO hangout night in Perkins lower level. Hosted by SGA, RSA, BSU, UDance and Hola.

Wednesday: Give a Scoop, Get a Scoop

Friday: Giveaway winner announced

Check our instagram for more details!

Senate Resolutions

Spring 2023 Semester

SR-2023-14: Parking Expansion

Mary Musa & Julia Hatoum

Aims to address widespread issues caused by the university parking situation, including but not limited to financial and academic problems, distance from campus buildings, and space limitations. This resolution encourages the university administration to work with parking services to find feasible solutions that will promote parking expansion, affordability, and accessibility.

Status: Passed

 

SR-2023-12: Dining Hall Transparency

Jillian Sternig, Paige Aldred, & Julia Hatoum

Encourages UD Dining to increase communication and transparency regarding where their food is coming from and if the source is local.

Status: Passed

SR-2023-13: Increasing Water Refill Stations

Jillian Sternig, Paige Aldred, & Julia Hatoum

Encourages the University to expand installations of water refill stations in academic buildings, student centers, and residence halls.

Status: Passed

 

SR-2023-11: Independent Study for College of Health Sciences

Christiana Santucci, Kirsten Willoughby, & Julia Hatoum

Encourages Faculty Senate and the College of Health Sciences to establish an Independent Study Course specifically for Healthcare shadowing opportunities, allowing pre-health students to obtain credit for professional shadowing hours.

Status: Passed

SR-2023-10: Streamline Recycling Resolution

Bella Slough & Julia Hatoum

Encourages the Office of Sustainability to outline consistent recycling standards for the entire campus, so that recycling, waste, and labeling look uniform throughout the university. This will provide clarity to members of the community who want to limit unnecessary waste, increase campus recycling, and improve overall UD sustainability.

Status: Passed

SR-2023-9: Mandatory Office Hours

Rayna Katz & Julia Hatoum

Encourages Faculty Senate to mandate that every professor offer at least one consistent weekly office hour in their syllabi and specify so in Faculty Handbook.

Status: Passed

 

SR-2023-8: AAP Student Involvement Fair

Layalie Alfroukh & Julia Hatoum

Encourages the Student Involvement Office to create a semesterly virtual Involvement Fair that will allow students on AAP campuses and other virtual students to get involved in RSOs.

Status: Passed

 

SR-2023-7: Entrepreneurship-Engineering Major

Yannick Nguenkam & Julia Hatoum

Encourages Faculty to create an Entrepreneurship-Engineering major [or mechanism] by which engineering students of any field can take classes in the business college to gain the knowledge they would need to become effective entrepreneurs within the engineering space.

 

Status: Passed

SR-2022-15: Greek Life Senator Positions

Joey Gonzalez & Jack Levine

Adds two Greek Life Senators to the Legislative branch to represent the Greek Life community and serve as the liaison between the four Greek Councils and SGA.

Status: Passed

 

SR-2022-32: Support of the Advanced Honors Scholar Program Proposal

Megan Tarr & Julia Hatoum

Supports the creation and implementation of the Advanced Honors Scholars Program, which will allow students to become members of the Honors College during their second or third year at the university through the completion of 15 required honors credits.

Status: Passed

 

SR-2022-33: Overnight Shuttles

Lexi Haws, Elliot Dobson, & Julia Hatoum

Encourages the University’s Transportation Department to enhance campus safety and accessibility by providing an overnight shuttle option.

Status: Passed

SR-2022-34: Residence Life & Housing Transparency with Students

Shannon Yarnall, Georgiann Walker, Annabella Gangi, & Julia Hatoum

Encourages Residence Life and Housing to enhance transparency with the student body by further promoting housing priority as well as other housing details on their website.

Status: Passed

SR-2022-35: Coding Center for All Students

Yannick Nguenkam, Jadyn Worthington, Mary Musa, Victor Umoren-Udo, & Julia Hatoum

Encourages the University of Delaware to institute a Coding Center that will hire knowledgeable students to provide support and tutoring to peers who seek programming/coding aid.

Status: Passed

Fall 2022 Semester

SR-2022-31: Payment for SOS Victim Advocates

Lexi Haws, Elliott Dobson, Julia Hatoum, & Tori Glover

Encourages Student Wellness and Health Promotion to provide equitable payment to their SOS Victim Advocates for their 24-hour shifts and educational programs that fairly compensate them for their time, efforts, and labor.

Status: Passed

SR-2022-30: Honors College GPA Requirement
Megan Tarr & Julia Hatoum

Encourages the Honors College to redefine the GPA requirement based on the averages and an appropriate percentile range (re-evaluated every four years) for each field of study, so long as it is less than 3.3.

Status: Passed

SR-2022-29: Lerner College Real Estate Minor Resolution
Regan Landrigan & Julia Hatoum

Encourages the University to support the further creation and implementation of a Real Estate minor.

Status: Passed

SR-2022-28: GPA and Grading Standards

Joey Picciotto, Kyle Jenkins, Esha Shah, Georgia Moore

Institutions that currently award A+ or 4.33 GPA’s give their students an unfair advantage when applying for continuing education programs. SR-2022-28 addresses the discrepancy in GPA standards for UD students applying to continuing education programs such as Law School and encourages changes to UD’s grading criteria at professors’ discrepancies.

Status: Passed

SR-2022-27: Sustainability Curriculum

Jillian Sternig, Alex Dewey, & Julia Hatoum

Encourages the University and the new Office of Sustainability to create an educational curriculum in the FYS classes and beyond that focuses on sustainability and ensures that students are provided resources and information to enhance campus sustainability.

Status: Passed

SR-2022-26: Printers in Residence Halls

Julia Hatoum, Annabella Gangi, Shannon Yarnall, Grace Mahony

Encourages the University to purchase a printer for every residence hall, which would be accessible to students at all hours of the day, enhancing student success in the classrooms.

Status: Passed

SR-2022-25: Accessible Facilities Communication

Isabella Haigney & Julia Hatoum

Encourages Disability Support Services, Facilities, and the University Police Department to collaborate and inform the student body of temporary issues in facilities functionality (such as elevators) that may affect campus travel for students with physical disabilities, enhancing campus accessibility and inclusivity.

Status: Passed

SR-2022-24: Extending Meal Exchange Hours

Tori Glover, Jonathan Hezel, Megan Kelly, Bella Slough, & Julia Hatoum

Encourage dining services to increase the hours of meal exchange to before 5 pm and over the weekend to create a more accessible dining experience.

Status: Passed

SR-2022-23: Free Menstrual Products

Julia Hatoum, Meredith Blowman, & Rayna Katz

Association encourages the University of Delaware to supply free menstrual products in Residence Halls.

Status: Passed

SR-2022-22: Passed Resolution: Next Steps

Tori Glover

All passed resolutions will be shared with the Vice President of Student Life, José Riera via a shared google folder every month after senate, enhancing communication between SGA and administration and allowing the division to respond to and/or help advocate for passed resolutions.

Status: Passed

SR-2022-21: Lerner College Student-Run Food Truck Initiative
Regan Landrigan & Julia Hatoum

Promotes the initiative to create student-run food trucks on campus through the Lerner College, which will provide affordable, time-efficient, and healthy meal options while giving Lerner students first-hand experience with real-world capital.

 

.Status: Passed

SR-2022-20: Monthly Emails to the Student Body
Julia Hatoum

Introduces SGA’s initiative to begin sending out monthly emails to the entire student body in order to gain first-hand student perspectives, experiences, and opinions. This will increase transparency between SGA & the Student Body as well as catalyze change that directly reflects the concerns of the undergraduate student population.


Status: Passed

SR-2022-16: Expanding Director of Outreach Position
Julia Hatoum, Tori Glover, Kyle Jenkins, Julia Lencovich, Jack Levine

Expands the Director of Outreach Position to two seats, allowing SGA to expand its outreach, create campus-wide connections, and increase the representation of RSOs, multicultural groups, advocacy groups, and Greek Life.

Status: Passed

SR-2022-17: Resolution Database
Alex Dewey & Julia Hatoum

Formalizes SGA’s initiative to promote all proposed Senate resolutions on its website.

.Status: Passed

SR-2022-13: Accessibility Senator Position
Julia Hatoum, Tori Glover, Kyle Jenkins, Julia Lencovich, Jack Levine

Creates a voting member within the Legislative branch to advocate for accessibility (physical, academic, mental, emotional) on campus and to represent undergraduate students with disabilities.

Status: Passed

SR-2022-19: Constitution Amendments
Feyisayo Ogundimu, Joey Gonzalez , Jack Levine

Redefines the Constitutional responsibilities of SGA leaders to turn in and complete transition guides within a month of elections to ensure a smooth transition of leadership and SGA continuity.

Status: Passed

SR-2022-14: College Dean Advisory Councils
Julia Hatoum

Encourages all College Deans to create Student Advisory Councils to gain student perspective and aid them in decision-making. And encourages them to reserve a seat on their councils for their respective Academic Affairs Senators.

Status: Passed