SGA to appoint open assembly, cabinet positions for fall 2025
SU’s Student Government Association looks to fill its open assembly and cabinet positions at the association’s next meeting. All appointed positions and Chief of Staff have been made available for the upcoming term. Ella Chan | Asst. Photo Editor
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Syracuse University’s Student Government Association will interview and appoint students to its 45 open positions from Monday to Saturday after its spring semester elections closed last week.
Caroline Ridge, SGA’s outgoing board of elections chair, said the association especially hopes to fill the roles for chief of staff, vice president of academic affairs and vice president of diversity and inclusion.
“SGA directly represents the students,” Ridge said. “If you care about students, if you care about promoting students’ voices, especially to upper-level administration and protecting student issues, it’s important to become involved with SGA.”
She said SGA members will have the opportunity to directly impact students in their positions, like the vice president of academic affairs, who will work on initiatives such as textbook affordability. The next vice president of diversity and inclusion will work with marginalized and underrepresented communities on campus.
The chief of staff position will work directly with newly-elected SGA President German Nolivos and Vice President Janese Fayson to oversee the cabinet, Ridge said.
The association is also looking to fill the role of SGA’s director of internal operations, who will advise assembly members and committees, she said. Numerous director roles, such as the director of sexual assault and relationship violence advocacy and awareness, director of mental health advocacy and director of sustainability are also open.
Other positions to be filled include treasurer, historian and chief data office. Undergraduate representative to SU’s Board of Trustees, student advocate and chief justice are also open.
Ridge said the association hopes to fill most key leadership positions, but will leave some open in the fall to encourage new students to join SGA. She said students will likely be able to run for those roles following fall assembly elections.
She said becoming a member of SGA is an opportunity for students to be a voice on campus and help represent the student body. Ridge said it’s important for the association to have a variety of diverse perspectives, and encouraged students without prior SGA experience to get involved.
“You get introduced to a group of like-minded people who also just want to represent student voices and help students out,” Ridge said. “It’s always great to get people, even if you haven’t been involved in SGA before, to have people from the outside come in and provide their perspective.”
Selected applicants will be confirmed on April 21 and sworn into the association on April 28.
