Administrative Policies

KCTCS Student Body Co-Presidents

The following process is established for the election of KCTCS Student Body Co-Presidents:

1. Students at each of the 16 KCTCS colleges shall annually elect a college student body president* by secret ballot, beginning spring 2006 and continuing each spring thereafter. The student shall serve as the college student body president for a one-year term, beginning August 1.
   
   
2. Each KCTCS college president/chief executive officer shall transmit the name, address, telephone number, and email address of the student elected as the college student body president to the KCTCS Vice President responsible for Student Affairs.
   
   
3. College student body presidents will meet in August.
   
   
4. At the August meeting of the college student body presidents, the college student body presidents will nominate and elect by secret ballot one KCTCS Student Body Co-President to represent General Education and one KCTCS Student Body Co-President to represent Occupational/Technical Education.
   
   
5. The KCTCS Student Body Co-Presidents shall receive a KCTCS Board of Regents scholarship.
   
   
6. If a KCTCS Student Body Co-President/KCTCS Student Regent does not retain his/her status as a full-time student in good standing at any time during the academic year or for any other reason resigns this position, the student candidate who received the next highest number of votes cast in the August election shall serve the remainder of the unexpired term as the alternate KCTCS Student Body Co-President/KCTCS Student Regent.
   
   The Assistant Secretary to the KCTCS Board of Regents shall notify the alternate as soon as practicable that the KCTCS Student Body Co-President/KCTCS Student Regent can no longer serve.

* The college student body president may be the Student Government Association (SGA) president.