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Student Trustee Nominees Selected
By Jimm Phillips on 6/21/07
The leaders of the Student Government, Graduate Leadership Council and Student Bar Association selected Matt Simpson, Marc Tomik and Rachel Weiner as their three nominees for student trustee, according to former SG President Ashley Mushnick.
Simpson, who was also a finalist for the position when the Trusteeship Committee selected the first student trustee last fall, is a graduate student in the Washington College of Law and the School of International Service. Tomik is a senior in the School of Public Affairs. Weiner is a third-year student in WCL and a 2005 graduate from SPA.
The Trusteeship Committee of AU's board of trustees will decide who to recommend as the student trustee after they evaluate the nominees. The United Methodist Church's General Board of Higher Education and Ministry would then need to vote to approve the selected nominee before the board of trustees could give their final approval. The Trusteeship Committee is expected to interview the three nominees in June. The entire process should be completed in time for the new student trustee to be seated at the board's September meeting, said SG President Joe Vidulich, a senior in SPA.
Mushnick said 10 people applied for the position, which the board of trustees agreed to implement last May as part of their governance reform plan. Mushnick, former GLC Executive Chair Wade Murphy and former SBA President Jon Feere helped select nominees during the first student trustee search last fall. The Trusteeship Committee selected Rebecca Geller, then a third-year student in the WCL, as student trustee in November. Geller was not formally approved by the entire board until their winter meetings on February 22 and 23, The Eagle previously reported.
Mushnick said the current selection process should not take as long to complete.
"The process should occur more quickly this time since we've already had one go-around," she said in an e-mail. "At least we hope so!"
The student leaders had difficulty finding only one person who could represent all three of the university's student constituencies, Mushnick said.
Simpson, who was also a finalist for the position when the Trusteeship Committee selected the first student trustee last fall, is a graduate student in the Washington College of Law and the School of International Service. Tomik is a senior in the School of Public Affairs. Weiner is a third-year student in WCL and a 2005 graduate from SPA.
The Trusteeship Committee of AU's board of trustees will decide who to recommend as the student trustee after they evaluate the nominees. The United Methodist Church's General Board of Higher Education and Ministry would then need to vote to approve the selected nominee before the board of trustees could give their final approval. The Trusteeship Committee is expected to interview the three nominees in June. The entire process should be completed in time for the new student trustee to be seated at the board's September meeting, said SG President Joe Vidulich, a senior in SPA.
Mushnick said 10 people applied for the position, which the board of trustees agreed to implement last May as part of their governance reform plan. Mushnick, former GLC Executive Chair Wade Murphy and former SBA President Jon Feere helped select nominees during the first student trustee search last fall. The Trusteeship Committee selected Rebecca Geller, then a third-year student in the WCL, as student trustee in November. Geller was not formally approved by the entire board until their winter meetings on February 22 and 23, The Eagle previously reported.
Mushnick said the current selection process should not take as long to complete.
"The process should occur more quickly this time since we've already had one go-around," she said in an e-mail. "At least we hope so!"
The student leaders had difficulty finding only one person who could represent all three of the university's student constituencies, Mushnick said.
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