Student Handbook - Sweet Briar College

2. The Senior, Junior and Sophomore classes will elect for their class:
a. Judicial Committee Representatives (2).
b. Class Officers (President, Vice-President, Secretary, and Treasurer).
c. The Sophomores will elect for their class: AAC Representative (1).
3. First Year elections consist of:
a. Judicial Committee Representatives (2).
b. Class Officers (President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer).
c. Academic Affairs Committee (AAC) Representative (1).
B. Timing of Elections
1. First Year Elections should be held before the second SGA meeting of
the fall semester.
2. Spring Elections should begin two weeks prior to Spring Break.
3. Senior Elections should be held at the end of March or the beginning of
April.
4. All Student Government positions for the following academic year shall
be elected before the new SGA Board holds its inaugural meeting in the
spring.
5. The Non-Residential, Turning Point and Transfer student representative
should be elected before the second SGA meeting of the fall semester.
C. Guidelines for Nominations for every elected position:
1. To be a candidate for an elected office, a student must submit her name
at a time and place designated by the Electoral Officer of the SGA. In the
event that a student is abroad, she may either nominate herself or may
have a resident student nominate her by proxy. The position of SGA
President may not be filled by a student who is abroad during the spring
semester of her junior year.
2. With self-nomination, each student is required to submit three hard
copies and one electronic copy of a platform that includes her intentions
and will be displayed in two locations on campus upon verification and
approval of the candidates meeting the election criteria.
3. Each student must have a minimum 2.7 GPA, be in good academic
standing, and have the proper class status in order to nominate herself.
All nominations will be sent to the Registrar’s Office in order to verify
eligibility. If a student falls out of good academic standing during her
term in office, she will not be permitted to run in a spring election for the
upcoming academic year.
4. Any judicial candidate must have been in good honor standing for the
entirety of her college career.
5. All students must be in good honor standing in order to self-nominate,
run for, and hold office. Good honor standing is defined as not having
received a judicial sanction in the current academic year as defined in the
Judicial Constitution by I.C.b-k. If a student falls out of good honor
standing during her term of office, she will face removal from her
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