By Nick Olinger | Staff Writer
The Student Government Association is dashing into new engagements for this spring semester.
Chris Drew conveyed there is going to be a blood drive open to the entire campus on Wednesday, Jan. 23, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. This blood drive will be held in Ballroom C in the UC Drew also wanted to point out the involvement APSU has with Nashville.
He said there is a higher education bill being processed. This bill focuses on helping students get into a community college. Drew said there will be a common agreement with each community college and APSU, so APSU does not have to come to an agreement with each community college.
He said there are 13 community colleges in Tennessee and APSU is reaching out to all of them to try and bring in transfer students. He also said the other part of the bill is to get graduation rates to become part of the funding formula.
Kenny Kennedy said applications for the empty Senate seats were due Jan. 23. He said the process of selecting senators should be mostly done by Wednesday, Jan. 27.
He also added the results will be announced at Wednesday’s meeting.
Drew contributed some information regarding what APSU President Timothy Hall and the chair of the Tennessee Board of Regents, has been working on in Nashville.
“President Hall has been to Nashville and on the news, to put up a good case that Austin Peay’ s graduation rate should not be compared to the University of Tennessee’.” Drew said.
Drew gave statistics such as the a graduation rate of APSU is 27 percent, and the University of Tennessee’s is 84 percent.
The new involvements SGA is arranging were pointed out by both Kennedy and Drew. Kennedy said one big thing the SGA was doing is going through old files trying to make sure they did not leave anything important out over the last 20 years.
Drew said the SGA is trying to reach out to students this semester, and have more students involved next fall.
CORRECTION: The blood drive is Wednesday, Jan. 27.






