Student Council
About
A Student Council is a group of elected and volunteer students working together with an adult advisor within the framework of a constitution or bylaws to provide a means for student expression and assistance in school affairs and activities, give opportunities for student experience in leadership and encourage student/ faculty / community relations.
Objective
- To initiate, implement, and complete projects and activities which will be of help to the school, the students, the faculty, the administration, the Board of Trustees and the community.
- Decide about the overall teaching programmed or annual calendar of the college.
- Recommend to the management about introducing new academic courses and the creation of additional teaching and administrative posts.
- Take review of the self-financing courses in the college, if any, and make recommendations for their improvement.
- Make specific recommendations to the management to encourage and strengthen research culture, consultancy and extension activities in the college.
- Make specific recommendations to the management to foster academic collaborations to strengthen teaching and research.
- Make specific recommendations to the management to encourage the use of information and communication technology in teaching and learning process.
- Make specific recommendations regarding the improvement in teaching and suitable training programmed for the employees of the college.
- Prepare the annual financial estimates (budget) and financial statements of the college or institution and recommend the same to the management for approval.
- Formulate proposals of new expenditure not provided for in the annual financial estimates (budget).
- Make recommendations regarding the students’ and employees’ welfare activities in the college or institution.
- To increase student involvement and school pride.
Student Council Work
A student council is a group of student leaders who work with an adult advisor to collaborate with others to impact their school community, which impacts their city or town, which impacts our state, which impacts our country, which changes the world.
- Promote Citizenship
- Promote Scholarship
- Promote Leadership
- Promote Human Relations
- Promote Cultural Values
Promote Citizenship
- By supporting and further developing democracy as a way of life
- By involving students in meaningful, purpose-oriented activities
- By helping each student develop a sincere regard for law and order appropriate to this democratic society
- By leading each individual in developing a sense of personal responsibility and earned self-respect
- By example through teaching the processes and procedures of a democracy
- By encouraging desirable attitudes and the continuous upward development of valued patterns of good citizenship
- By providing a forum for student opinions, interests and desires so these may be understood by the entire student body, faculty, administration and community
- By honestly reflecting and interpreting the student viewpoint
Promote Scholarship
- By contributing to the total educational growth of all students in the institute
- By encouraging the highest standards of scholarship and positive student involvement in learning and thinking
- By providing experience in genuine problem-solving procedures
- By providing training and experiences in the skills and techniques of good citizenship and leadership to prepare articulate citizens and leaders for a progressing society
Promote Leadership
- By providing young people with the power and right to speak and, especially, the power, right and privilege of being heard by those in authority
- By avoiding the commercial or cultural exploitation of students
- By providing coordination of institute-sponsored student activities with constant evaluation in terms of the selected purposes
- By promoting opportunities for leadership among student body members
- By utilizing the ideas and support of students in solving relevant institute problems
Promote Human Relationship
- By helping create harmonious relationships among faculty, administration, student body and the community
- By providing organized services to the institute in the interest of the general welfare
- By communicating purposes, activities and the other positive elements of college life through mass media to the entire community
- By helping young people further realize the genius and dignity of each individual
Promote Cultural Values
- By sparking institute loyalty, pride, patriotism and individual student development
- By providing real experiences in group development and human understandings
- By helping students earn and protect individual rights and responsibilities
- By selecting projects and activities which seek to achieve purposes that are significant in the life of the institute community
- By helping each student reach maximum educational growth and development