Contact: Chris Hoofnagle
Undersec. to President
Phone: 548-2375
Cell: 207-1695
choof@arches.uga.edu
Contact: Mike Runnels
SGA President Pro-tempore
Phone: 559-9658


Press Release
SGA’s New Website is Online
Class Evaluations, Institutional History Database Now Available Online
· UGA’s student government association announces the posting of its new website: www.uga.edu/sga
· The website includes:
· The entire UGA payroll budget.   Salary information for every UGA employee—faculty, graduate TA, and staff is included.  
· The Key: Online grade distributions for UGA courses.
· The allocation of the student activity fee.
· Information on security deposit law, including brochures from Georgia Legal Services and all the Georgia statutes on security deposits.
· An Open Records request how-to, including links to RCFP’s Tapping Official Secrets.  
· The administrative structure of UGA.
· Information on teaching evaluations.
· The 1998 and 1999 State of the University Addresses.
· Professional standards on student affairs administration, including
· The Joint Statement on Student Rights, the seminal document on professional standards in student affairs administration.
· The Presidents' Fourth of July Declaration on the Civil Responsibility of Higher Education, a 1999 document authored in part by past UGA President Charles Knapp.
· The Principles of Good Practice for student affairs administration.
· Other statements on student voting and free speech sponsored by NASPA.
· Information on the local government, including:
· SPLOST
· Property Taxes
· Jury Duty
· Taxi service
· Local Government Gerrymandering (“studentmandering”)
· A map of the A-CC voting districts, and contact information for your commissioner.
· Local Cable Service.
· Online applications and information on the Freshman Board.
· The SGA constitution and bylaws.
· How to contact your SGA senator.
· Links to other student governments and student advocacy groups.
· Other online services include a SGA Bookswap, a roommate finder, class evaluations, and small clubs allocation information.
· The website includes the new Institutional History Database, a 14,000 word, searchable index of SGA documents dating back to 1988.  Every SGA resolution, agenda, and minutes document available is included in the Institutional History Database.  
· For more information, contact Chris Hoofnagle, SGA webmaster. 548-2375.  Choof@arches.uga.edu.
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