ACADEMIC AFFAIRS

Welcome

Welcome to the online office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs. Over the next year, my department’s first priority will be to protect the academic interest of the Students though a cooperative relationship with the University administration. We have much to accomplish over the next year and all students play a vital role in our success. I hope that our website provides an accessible and informative look at the work of the SGA, and I encourage you to contact our office with any ideas or comments that you may have. I look forward to working with you over the next year to make it the best time ever to be a student at the Capstone.

Job Description:

The Vice President for Academic Affairs is the student’s advocate in all matters pertaining to achieving our academic goals at the Capstone. This broad spectrum of responsibilities includes defending the value of degrees granted by the University, monitoring curriculum and advising policies, assessing the cost and availability of supplies that students need to be successful academically, establishing and optimizing SGA programs that improve the academic atmosphere, working with administration and students to uphold our high standards of Academic Integrity, Helping administration bring the best and the brightest students to the Capstone, and opening up the lines of communication between students, faculty, staff, and administration.

Goals:

  • Continue Working with UA Administration to find a solution that is convenient to students for easy On-Campus Printing in Computer Labs in Libraries.
  • Provide cheaper textbooks by repealing sales tax on textbooks, implementing a bring a textbook rental program, and investigating other innovative ways to lower the prices that students pay for textbooks
  • Post UA professor evaluations online available to students in a UA Database with last Semester’s syllabi
  • Provide more Time Between Classes by either moving to a class scheduling scheme where all UA classes don’t start and end at the same time or allowing 15 minutes between MWF classes
  • Publicize Course Packets and get more professors to participate in this program.
  • Implement a pilot program for a 24 hour library
  • Make laptops available for rent in the Ferguson Center
  • Allow “@bama.ua.edu” Gmail addresses available to students who want them.
  • Updated SGA Test File Interface and Database.
  • SGA Calculator Rental to be operated by University Libraries

Headlines
Need to sell back your textbooks? BRING IT!
4-23-2007
Fall Textbooks!
06-20-2008
SGA Director Applications Here!
04-25-2008
Do You Bleed Crimson? Take the Bama Fan Survey!
04-15-2008

Upcoming Events
Please stay tuned to SGA.UA.EDU for upcoming events.

SGA Meeting Minutes
October 30, 2007
October 9, 2007
September 24, 2007

Richard Byrd
Chief of Staff
Major
Management
College
Business
Hometown
Mobile, AL
Job Description
The Chief of Staff is the chief administrative officer of the SGA serving all branches and departments of student government as accountability officer and chief administrative coordinator of all SGA business.