Jason Coulombe, Student Government Reporter
• November 4, 2024
The student senate marked its first senate-on-the-go event with a Halloween theme to its weekly Wednesday meeting.
The meeting was held in the Witters Conference room on the fourth floor of Booth...
Eastern Illinois University’s Student Government, in association with Booth Library, hosted the first-ever Book Bingo earlier this week on Wednesday night.
Ty Rea, Student Government’s Vice President...
The EIU student senate held its weekly meeting on Wednesday that saw the approval of a new club and the appointment of student government's executive vice president to the Illinois Board of Higher Education.
Emergency...
Last week was the elections for the 2022-23 student body president, executive vice president and five student senator positions with no candidates for vice president of academic affairs and vice president...
Katja Benz, Student Government Reporter
• April 20, 2022
Editor's Note: This story has been updated with corrections.
The Student Senate unanimously approved the $22,000 budget allocation for career services on Wednesday at the last senate meeting of the...
Katja Benz, Student Government Reporter
• April 14, 2022
The Student Senate unanimously approved increasing tuition fees for both undergraduate and graduate students in the 2022-2023 school year on Wednesday night.
The cost per credit hour for the 2022-2023...
Katja Benz, Student Government Reporter
• April 4, 2022
Students and staff competed to win prizes through a tabling event put on by the Student Senate on Monday in the Bridge Lounge located in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.
Students and staff...
Eastern’s Student Government quorum increased from 14 to 15 senators due to EIU’s population growth, moving last week’s business into this week’s meeting at 7 p.m. October 13.
Prabin Karki,...
The Student Senate will hear nominations for Speaker of the Senate during their meeting Wednesday. The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. in 7th Street Underground at the Martin Luther King Junior University...
Corryn Brock, Editor-in-Chief
• September 29, 2021
The Student Senate was unable to conduct an official meeting Wednesday due to only ten senators being present for the meeting.
The Senate can have a minimum of 18 senators and a maximum of 30 serving...
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Justin Richards, a senior digital media technology
“My goals, both personally and if I were elected to the position of Student Body President, would to be to ensure that every...
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