Student governance

SOURCE: Student affairs and services in higher education: global foundations, issues, and best practices
OUTPUT TYPE: Chapter in Monograph
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2021
TITLE AUTHOR(S): T.Luescher, B.Schreiber
SOURCE EDITOR(S): R.B.Ludeman
KEYWORDS: GOVERNANCE, STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE COUNCIL (SRC), STUDENTS (COLLEGE)
DEPARTMENT: Equitable Education and Economies (IED)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 11722
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/15721
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/15721

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Abstract

As a function of SAS, student governance is primarily focused on supporting the student body to self-organize aspects of campus life and be able to participate in the co-governance of HEIs. In addition, student governance is a vehicle for student development in so far as students are active in participative governance systems, such as those that govern HE in modern democracies. The student governance function is thus a reflection of the national political system in which the institution is embedded.