Student Affairs Committee

The Student Affairs Committee of the University Senate is the committee that represents student interests. It comprises the 24 voting Senators from the schools of Columbia University (including Barnard and Teachers College) and one non-voting observer from the Union Theological Seminary.

It is also coterminous with and functions as the student caucus or student voting bloc of the University Senate, as all student Senators are automatically members of the Student Affairs Committee. The Student Affairs Committee does not not function as a "super-student council". However, it is primus inter pares and first in the order of precedence of student governance, as it is both the senior body, and the only body at Columbia University representing students across all the schools.

Name

According to the Senate's founding documents, the "Student Affairs Committee" once comprised sixteen students, while the "student caucus" comprised all twenty-four. In the mid-1990s, a merger was effected, and the entire twenty-four member body was (somewhat nonsensically) known as the "Student Affairs Caucus" until 2010. In 2010, it was definitively rebranded as the "Student Affairs Committee" to emphasize its open, deliberative nature, as opposed to identifying it strictly as a voting bloc.

Leadership

Due to the requirement and responsibility of the SAC leadership to work across different schools, departments, and campuses, many of SAC's leaders tend to have multiple Columbia degrees. Columbia College and Columbia Business School appear to be the most common, although General Studies and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences are also in there.

Year	Chair/Co-Chair	Co-Chair	Annual Report
2011-2012	Alex Frouman, CC '12	Adil Ahamed, Business '12
2010-2011	Tao Tan, CC '07, Business '11
2009-2010	Andreas Svedin, PhD (Astronomy) '12		Link to Report
2008-2009	Genevieve Thornton, CC '02, Business '09	Amena Cheema, Arts '09	Link to Report
2007-2008	Andrea Hauge, CC '02, Business '08	John Johnson, Law '08	Link to Report
2006-2007	Chris Riano, GS '07	Marcus Johnson, CC '07	Link to Report
2005-2006	Adam Michaels, Business '06	Holly Snow, Barnard '06	Link to Report
2004-2005	Matan Ariel, GS '05, Business '11	Nathan Walker, MA (TC) '02, MDiv (UTS) '05, EdM (TC) '08, EdD (TC) '13	Link to Report
2003-2004	Matan Ariel, GS '05, Business '11	Brian Tobin, MPH '05 Nathan Walker, MA (TC) '02, MDiv (UTS) '05, EdM (TC) '08, EdD (TC) '13	Link to Report
2002-2003	Roosevelt Montas, CC '95, MA '96, MPhil '99, PhD (English) '04	Marni Hall, MA '01, MPH '05, PhD (Public Health) '07	Link to Report
2001-2002	Rohit Aggarwala, CC '93, MPhil '98, Business '00, PhD (History) '02	Roosevelt Montas, CC '95, MA '96, MPhil '99, PhD (English) '04	Link to Report
2000-2001	Rohit Aggarwala, CC '93, MPhil '98, Business '00, PhD (History) '02	Jerald Boak, CC '95, Arts '04	Link to Report
1999-2000	Rohit Aggarwala, CC '93, MPhil '98, Business '00, PhD (History) '02		Link to Report
1998-1999	Records missing
1997-1998	Corby Dale, MPH '95, MA '98, MPhil '00, PhD (Psychology) '00
1996-1997	Montimer "Monty" Mason, GS '97	Joshua Ratner, CC '98, Law '02
1995-1996	Frank David, MA '96, MPhil '96, PhD (Pathobiology) '00, MD '01
1994-1995	Records missing.
1993-1994	R. Shary Crossfield-Peguero, CC '91, Law '94	Mitchell Wong, CC '94
1992-1993	Eric Finseth, Law '94	Sean Gaffney, Arts '93
1991-1992	Records missing.
1990-1991	Records missing.
1989-1990	Matthew Kohl, GS '90
1988-1989	Tom Kamber, CC '89
1987-1988	Ellen Ostrick Knight, CC '88, Law '91
1986-1987	Records missing.
1985-1986	Steve Cancian, CC '86

External links

• Student Affairs Committee website