Student Senate voted to approve two motions regarding the student activities fee and student media fee at a Nov. 30 meeting. The first motion allocated 25% of the student activity fee to the Board of Student Communications, and will take effect for the 2024-2025 academic year. Prior to this change, the student media fee was […]
On Friday, Oct. 6 at 1:44 p.m., presidents of registered student organizations were informed via email by the Student Senate Executive Council of significant budget cuts. According to the email, these cuts were made due to decreased student enrollment, resulting in the Senate’s allocatable funds being cut from the original estimation of $600,000 to $412,000. […]
Meet the First-Year Senator candidates for the 37th session of the Drake Student Senate. Voting begins at 8 a.m. on Sept. 28 and closes at 8 p.m. on Sept. 29. If no candidate earns 50% of the vote, runoff elections will be held at 8 a.m. on Oct. 2 to 8 p.m. on Oct. 3. […]
Though the 36th session of Student Senate has been aware of the financial state of student publications since at least February, no action on the issue or defense for the School of Journalism and Mass Communication as a whole has been implemented. At the meeting on April 13, Student Senate went over the expectations of […]
One of Drake’s Core Values is: “We embrace robust communication and transparency.” Recent actions by Drake’s Student Senate leave us questioning its commitment to these values. A potential increase to the student media fee had been in talks for months, and it was scheduled to be presented on April 13 and voted on at the […]