Kalissa Holdcraft Elected to Student Senate Executive Council

2011 Mar 16

Kalissa Holdcraft of Crete, a Cornell College student, has been elected Student Life Committee chair, a position on the Student Senate executive council.

Executive council terms last until February 2012.

Student Senate is composed of an executive branch (called the executive council) and a legislative branch (called the general assembly). These two branches meet on the first three Tuesdays of the block to discuss student concerns, faculty legislation, requests for funding, and request to start new student organizations.

The executive council is composed of the President, Vice President, Academic Affairs Chair, Appropriations Chair, Organizations Chair, and Student Life Chair. The body's primary goals are to oversee the work of the standing committees, to provide recommendations to Student Senate on long terms goals and to help ensure that Senate's work is transparent to students. For more on Student Senate at Cornell, click here.

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