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The Student Government Association Student Body Presidents are responsible for hearing the concerns of the students and look for ways to improve their lives and college experience. With COVID-19 still affecting students, the Student Regent, four student body presidents and their Student Senates will come together on April 15 for Joint Congress. The legislation that is being brought to the floor during Joint Congress is based on the needs the SGA’s presidents see that will help benefit the system as well as what they have experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic on their respective campus...

With Joint Congress happening on April 15, the Student Government Association student body presidents from across the Texas Tech System, along with the student regent, discuss the upcoming event and the impacts of COVID-19 on their respective campuses.  All universities, Student Government Association Student Senates and executive officers under the Texas Tech System will come together virtually for Joint Congress this year. The four universities of Tech System are Tech, Tech Health Science Center Lubbock, Tech Health Science Center El Paso and Angelo State University. The Student Senates ...

The Student Government Association Student Senate convened for their 13th senate session of the academic year April 8, 2021 both virtually and in person in the College of Media and Communication building.  External vice president, Faisal Al-Hmoud, opened the meeting informing the senate of the four pieces that need to be adopted, by the Tech Student Senate, for Joint Congress on April 15. President of the Senate, Klay Davis, proceeded the meeting into first reading of 12 senate resolutions. Senate Resolution 56.175 - The sentiments of the Student Senate extending the closing of the Rawls C...

TH Legislative Session, addressing several top priorities. Mitchell provided insight to those priorities and the Legislative session. The Texas Legislative Session is held every other year, Mitchell said. All state agencies converge on Austin to testify before the Senate Finance Committee and the House of Appropriations to walk through their budgets and explain additional needs or wants. Some agencies, like Tech, testify before the Higher Education Committee as well. The Senate Finance Committee and House of Appropriations testimonies focus on the budget, Mitchell said. The primary ways the s...

One year ago, citizens of Lubbock and the United States began to watch their lives rapidly change due to a novel coronavirus. As this milestone approaches, Texas Tech and City of Lubbock officials looked back on the difficult decisions they had to make and the chaos that is COVID-19. Lubbock Mayor, Dan Pope, said he specifically remembered March 12, 2020, the day the University of Texas and Tech basketball game was canceled. He was supposed to go on a trip that weekend and canceled to monitor the COVID-19 situation, the next Tuesday, March 17, Lubbock reported its first coronavirus case. â€...