GPA standards raised by SGA

The Student Government Association voted Wednesday to support an increase to the GPA requirements for senators. The resolution will now be put on a referendum for the student body to vote on. 

The resolution was set forth by Senator Patrick Hall and seconded by President Pro Tempore Maxwell Pichan to amend Article III of the SGA Constitution and Section IV of the SGA Bylaws to require that all SGA senators have and maintain a 2.75 GPA, instead of a 2.3, which is what is the current GPA set for senators.

Hall said during discussion of this resolution that he and Pichan looked at the minimum GPA requirements in many campus organizations such as Greek organizations, CA’s for Housing and Student Ambassadors. Looking at these organizations’ requirements, they found that students in the organizations were required to have a minimum GPA of 2.75.

“Since all these organizations are asking students to be more than just students, there asking them to be representative of the school in some fashion,” Hall said. “I feel like we’re on par with those organizations as far as representing the school and we should also have equal standards for our senators. “

President Pro Tempore Maxwell Pichan said that SGA should not limit itself to only a 2.3 when the average student’s is much higher.

“Right now the requirement to be a senator is a 2.3 and the average GPA for a Georgia College student is a 3.3,” Pichan said. “I think raising it to a 2.75 is perfectly acceptable and fair.”

SGA President Evan Karanovich said he would like to see the senator GPA requirement at a 2.5 instead of a 2.75.

“I would be comfortable at a 2.5 and then seeing a 2.75 remain for executives,” Karanovich said. “I think that’s fair, I think that’s bringing us up a little bit higher than a 2.3 and getting us to a B average or a B- average and I think that’s where we need to be. I think we need to be caught up so much in that I don’t want to see qualified candidates be disqualified because of a simple GPA requirement.”

Posted by Lauren Davidson on Dec 1 2011. Filed under News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.