{"id":48787,"date":"2025-11-14T00:45:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T00:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/48787\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T00:45:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T00:45:06","slug":"tech-student-senate-implements-honors-student-caucus-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/48787\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Student Senate implements Honors Student Caucus | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Tech Student Senate passed House Bill 67, creating the university\u2019s first Honors Student Caucus under the senate Sunday, Oct. 9th, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis allows for more creativity and cross-collaboration between different colleges,\u201d said Faith Geistweidt, student body president of the Tech Student Government Association.<\/p>\n<p>SGA represents Tech students by assigning Senate Seats to academic colleges. Students then elect senators to represent their respective colleges, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.depts.ttu.edu\/sga\/Downloads\/Governing_Documents\/SGA-Code-of-Law.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tech SGA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny student within Texas Tech University can be a member of a caucus,\u201d Geistweidt said. \u201cIt\u2019s unlike a committee, structured caucuses are kind of like a general meeting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt allows for more participation but also more ideas,\u201d Geistweidt said. \u201cThe more ideas that you have, sometimes the more implementation and change that can be created off of those (ideas).\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Texas Tech Student Senate passed House Bill 67, creating the university\u2019s first Honors Student Caucus under the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169,223],"class_list":{"0":"post-48787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-lubbock","9":"tag-lubbock-headlines","10":"tag-lubbock-news","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}