The Texas Tech Student Senate passed House Bill 67, creating the university’s first Honors Student Caucus under the senate Sunday, Oct. 9th, 2025.
“This allows for more creativity and cross-collaboration between different colleges,” said Faith Geistweidt, student body president of the Tech Student Government Association.
SGA represents Tech students by assigning Senate Seats to academic colleges. Students then elect senators to represent their respective colleges, according to Tech SGA.
Senators are enrolled in multiple different colleges, giving them a perspective that goes beyond the college they have been elected to represent, therefore they are able to access student populations that are not necessarily connected to their own elected representatives, according to the senate resolution.
A majority of Student Senate members in the Honors College are also enrolled in multiple other colleges. These senators are usually elected to represent colleges outside of the Honors College, leaving Honors students without dedicated representation.
The creation of the Honors Student Caucus in the Student Senate will allow elected senators to organize in an official capacity and directly work with the Tech Honors College. Committee. This representation would advocate for Honors students, according to the resolution.
“Any student within Texas Tech University can be a member of a caucus,” Geistweidt said. “It’s unlike a committee, structured caucuses are kind of like a general meeting.”
The Student Senate of Texas Tech University has now established an official Honors Student Caucus, with the goal of being able to better represent its constituents. There will not be a set number of members within the Honors Caucus, Geisweidt said.
“It allows for more participation but also more ideas,” Geistweidt said. “The more ideas that you have, sometimes the more implementation and change that can be created off of those (ideas).”