2008 Woodie Awards
Survey: About 2% of students know ASSC
Questions raised as to whether students are fairly represented
Fionnola Villamejor
Date created: 4/18/05 Section: NEWS
- Page 1 of 3 next >
According to recent evidence, the Associated Students of Skyline College, the elected student government which controls and delegates the expenditure of student body fees, fails to effectively reach out and effectively represent the students it serves.
An informal, random survey of Skyline's day and night class students was conducted by The Skyline View during the week of April 11, at various locations on Skyline's campus. This survey reveals that one in 40 people knows what the ASSC is. This number translates to about two percent of the total number of enrolled Skyline College students.
The survey posed the following question to Skyline students: "As a student of Skyline College, do you know what the ASSC is?"
Thirty-nine of these forty students did not know what the ASSC is.
The ASSC student government council controls expenditure of student body fees. Fees support programs and events for students, as well as student-sponsored activities, according to Skyline College's class schedule, definition of fees. This school year, the sum of $112,534.00 in student body fees was paid by Skyline students between July 1, 2004 and Feb. 28, 2005, with an additional accumulated $111,656.33 of student money currently being held in the Skyline students' restricted checking account, according to Amory Cariadus, advisor to the ASSC.
However, few events or activities were planned this year, according to ASSC student President Ilka Barcala.
"We haven't done much in the way of activities, but we still do represent students when we go to committee meetings, in order to ensure shared governance," Barcala said.
Barcala explained that the ASSC tries to reach out to students through planned events and activities. Barcala said the ASSC always prepares enough food to accomodate 400 to 500 people, while many of the attendees are facilities people, workers, professors, visitors and administrators, and that there is no way to track the numbers of student who attend.
An informal, random survey of Skyline's day and night class students was conducted by The Skyline View during the week of April 11, at various locations on Skyline's campus. This survey reveals that one in 40 people knows what the ASSC is. This number translates to about two percent of the total number of enrolled Skyline College students.
The survey posed the following question to Skyline students: "As a student of Skyline College, do you know what the ASSC is?"
Thirty-nine of these forty students did not know what the ASSC is.
The ASSC student government council controls expenditure of student body fees. Fees support programs and events for students, as well as student-sponsored activities, according to Skyline College's class schedule, definition of fees. This school year, the sum of $112,534.00 in student body fees was paid by Skyline students between July 1, 2004 and Feb. 28, 2005, with an additional accumulated $111,656.33 of student money currently being held in the Skyline students' restricted checking account, according to Amory Cariadus, advisor to the ASSC.
However, few events or activities were planned this year, according to ASSC student President Ilka Barcala.
"We haven't done much in the way of activities, but we still do represent students when we go to committee meetings, in order to ensure shared governance," Barcala said.
Barcala explained that the ASSC tries to reach out to students through planned events and activities. Barcala said the ASSC always prepares enough food to accomodate 400 to 500 people, while many of the attendees are facilities people, workers, professors, visitors and administrators, and that there is no way to track the numbers of student who attend.
Be the first to comment on this story