This document outlines a platform for reforming the Student Government Association (SGA) at Georgia Tech to better serve students. It proposes restructuring SGA's finance process and representation model to focus more on student organizations. It also aims to empower all student communities by addressing needs of international students, transfers, and underrepresented groups. Finally, it advocates improving mental health resources and campus infrastructure regarding sustainability, facilities, and digital services.

1. It’s Time 4 REAL Change
1.Reform SGA to Work for You
○ Streamline and Simplify Organizational Finance
■ Prepare a student organization financial guide for navigating institutional
funding sources beyond the student activity fee
■ Ensure a standing time slot for organizations with time sensitive requests
at Joint Finance Committee (JFC) Meetings
■ Work with the Student Organization Finance Office (SOFO) to implement
a policy for urgent requests
■ Advocate to fully staff and fairly pay SOFO
■ Work with SOFO and GT legal to allow for block grants per project and
large event set ups
■ Make the bill submission process easier by automating price verification
using a script
■ Reclassify organizations with high reach or expenditure (such as
competitive engineering orgs and SCPC) as Department Registered
Student Organizations to improve funding and streamline approval
processes
○ Reform and Prioritize the Undergraduate House of
Representatives (UHR)
■ Create new representative positions focused on student organizations as
constituencies
● Representative for Academic/Professional Organizations
● Representative for Arts/Media Organizations
● Representative for Civic Engagement Organizations
● Representative for Competitive Organizations
● Representative for Competitive Sports Organizations
● Representative for Cultural Organizations
● Representative for Honor Societies
● Representative for Religious/Spiritual Organizations
● Representative for Recreational/Leisure Organizations
● Representative for Social Fraternities
● Representative for Social Sororities
■ Create several presidentially appointed member-at-large seats reserved
for representatives from historically underrepresented and minority
communities to better represent the student body in UHR
■ Transition from the current method of having 1 or more representatives
from each School to several representatives from each College

2. ■ Establish and prioritize House committees as the main place to plan
projects and do work within SGA that enrich the student experience
○ Restructure the Executive Branch
■ Reintroduce a Vice President of Student Organizations to create
resources for and assist student orgs with chartering, growth, and
leadership development
■ Re-evaluate executive committee’s structure and functions to optimize
efficacy
■ Use SGA resources to expand advocacy networks to coordinate the work
of similar student organizations
● Expand current networks such as the Green Network, the Mental
Health Network
● Create new ones such as Philanthropy, Service, and Minority
Empowerment
■ Prefer leaning into existing organizations and communities when new
campus issues arise rather than creating new SGA task forces and
committees
■ Establish roundtable meetings between all presidentially appointed
students that serve on Institute-wide committees to coordinate their work
to best reflect the student body opinion
○ Improve Communication, Transparency, and Engagement
■ Redesign the website to make it simpler and more intuitive to find
resources and information about SGA
● Implement a Student Activity Fee tracker
● Implement and keep updated extensive project trackers
● Publicize and keep updated minutes from SGA meetings
■ Increase frequency and usefulness of SGA newsletters and social media
posts
■ Establish an independently appointed watchdog position to investigate
and report waste, abuse, and mismanagement
■ Coordinate and expand representative and cabinet member office hours
and work to ensure there is always an SGA member available in the SGA
office during business hours
■ Have regular tabling events to improve SGA presence and accessibility
■ Promote fairer and more engaging SGA elections
● Publish the elections schedule to the student body within the
second week of spring semester
● Hold several interest meetings over the course of the 2 months
leading up to elections to encourage new and outside applicants

3. ● Leave the elections application open for 4 weeks
● Host several town halls and forums during the campaign period to
allow the student body to meet and discuss ideas with the
candidates
● Overhaul the elections website to make it easier to understand the
candidates and find their information
a. For example: University of Southern California’s site
https://usg.usc.edu/elections/
2.Empower all Communities
○ Address International Students Needs
■ Advocate for urgent support to the greatly under-staffed Office of
International Education (OIE)
■ Advocate for a separate department that supports graduate international
students
■ Improve the international student career search
● Work with Career Center to develop an international student
specific Career Fair with employers willing to sponsor students
● Develop separate searching procedures for curricular practical
training (CPT) and optional practical training (OPT)
■ Reform the international student FASET experience
● Include better information about international upkeep and legal
requirements for staying in the US under a visa
● Replace outdated cultural learning sessions and provide cultural
and diversity training for FASET advisors and all incoming
students
○ Support Transfer Students
■ Improve Academic Advising
● Work with the Georgia Tech Academic Advising Network (GTAAN)
to develop resources and train all advisor members on the unique
needs of transfer students
● Advocate for advisors specific to transfer students in individual
schools
● Allow first year class permits for transfer students
■ Provide Relevant Resources
● Provide directed Career Center information regarding co-ops and
internships
● Provide a contact to the Undergraduate Research Ambassadors

4. ● Provide information on library classes and a guide to checking out
books and resources
■ Reform Transfer FASET
● Involve organizations like Transfer Student Association (TSA) and
transfer student representatives as a resource and point of contact
during orientation
● Promote the TSA mentorship program
○ Develop Student Organizations
■ Promote Inter-Organization Relations
● Host mixers between student org leaders to promote social
connections
● Support the development of roundtables to share common issues
and ideas
■ Connect students to organizations
● Create an organization matching survey for students to better find
and join organizations
● Improve promotion of the org fair and Engage
■ Provide Organizational Development
● Host rotating monthly lunch and learn trainings on different topics
such as: effective leadership, diversity equity and inclusion (DEI),
navigating SGA, recruitment and growth, financing and
fundraising, year over year transitions, and organizational
networking
● Provide assistance for creating and updating organization
governing documents (Constitution, Bylaws, etc)
○ Elevate Cultural and Religious Groups
■ Advocate for the creation of a Multicultural Resource Center to promote,
coordinate, and advocate for the interests of different cultural groups on
campus
■ Use SGA’s social media presence to elevate smaller and under-served
organizations
■ Promote diversity education on campus to improve cultural understanding
and awareness
■ Promote interfaith and multicultural events that allow students a
non-judgemental space to ask questions and connect on a deep level with
people unlike them
■ Ensure neutral meditation spaces in the new student center

5. ○ Promote Greek Life
■ Improve publicity of (Multicultural Panhellenic Council) MPC/ (National
Pan-Hellenic Council) NPHC recruitment
■ Ensure priority booking for chapter meetings in the new student center
■ Promote rush on Engage and in orientation
■ Create a rush buddy system based on a survey (similar to roommate sign
up) to encourage involvement in the process
○ Uplift the LGBTQIA+ Community
■ Integrate and normalize the use of pronouns and preferred names in
professional and academic spaces at Georgia Tech, including CANVAS
■ Improve signage of gender inclusive bathrooms in all buildings
■ Support expansion of gender-inclusive housing and advocate for an
option to opt in mid-year
■ Promote and support Pride Alliance and the 3-full time staff at the
LGBTQIA Resource center Center
○ Recognize all Athletes
■ Register competitive dance teams as GT sports teams so they can
access priority registration for practice spaces and receive institutional
support and funding
■ Ensure GT sports teams of all levels are properly recognized and receive
adequate funding when representing Tech at competitions
■ Provide a point of contact for registered GT sports and intramural teams
to help navigate the funding process and access resources
■ Advocate for a dietitian for the GT band alongside other traveling sports
teams
3. Advocate for Better Mental Health + Wellbeing
○ Work for Improved Access to Mental Health Providers
■ Advocate for the addition of an online intake form and availability
schedule on the CARE website
■ Advocate for the creation of a comprehensive list of on and off-campus
mental health providers focused on affordable care options
■ Advocate for increased funding for long-term licensed psychiatrists and
psychologists on campus
■ Implement a “Get help now” button on all Georgia Tech websites to
navigate to a central page where services are listed with a short
description and are in order of emergency to non-emergency
services/contacts

6. ○ Address Physical and Sexual Violence
■ Assist student orgs with creating a clear and specific policy to address
sexual harassment/assault to ensure swift action in the event of
misconduct
■ Improve communication into how the Title IX process works
■ Improve education on consent and sexual assault as part of the First-Year
Experience program
■ Advocate for the hiring of more VOICE staff
■ Increase the number of sexual violence support groups that can be joined
throughout the semester
○ Adopt a Holistic Approach to Wellbeing
■ Expand Question, Persuade, Refer (QPR) and Mental Health First Aid
(MHFA) training across campus and work towards mandatory Mental
Health training for all students, faculty, and staff
■ Promote the expansion of effective life coaching
■ Provide students with more outdoor gaming spaces such as life size
chess on Tech Green
■ Continue to ensure that the Menstrual Product Program has a long-term
funding source
■ Work with the Dean of Students to create a social fall through prevention
system to identify uninvolved students and provide them with additional
support to help them discover their community on campus
■ Move the location of the drug disposal dropbox from GTPD to Stamps to
improve privacy
■ Encourage art in “invisible” spaces such as residence halls and campus
buildings
4. Look after Campus Infrastructure +
Sustainability
○ Improve the Physical Campus Infrastructure
■ Continue work on bringing lighting to the top of Peter’s parking deck
■ Advocate for more hammocks along Tech Green and throughout campus
■ Support the work of the Residence Hall Association (RHA) and enable
this organization to be the primary advocate for housing problems
■ Work closely with Capital Planning and Space Management (CPSM) to
involve more student’s in planning/designing upcoming projects such as

7. Ferst Dr cycle track, future developments on south campus and
improvements to the Peters parking deck Area
■ Work with existing contacts and mobilize the student body to petition the
City of Atlanta for faster improvements to city owned parts of campus
● Repave Hemphill Ave. and Techwood Dr.
● Add lights to Couch Park (Burger Bowl)
● Add a traffic signal to Ferst Dr and State St.
■ Begin the process of advocating for a pedestrian scramble at North Ave
and Techwood Drive
○ Improve the Digital Campus Infrastructure
■ Advocate for an improved room reservation system
● Expand the availability of instant reservations
● Better the website UI and add the ability to reserve onsight
■ Advocate for redesigned campus websites (for PTS, Dining, GTPD,
CARE, etc) that make it easier to find updated and complete
policies/procedures/information
● Create better graphics, flowcharts, and video explanations
● Create expanded and searchable FAQs inspired by top questions
on Reddit
■ Continue advocacy for improved Parking and Transportation Service
(PTS) apps such as Passio GO and Stingerette
■ Continue work to improve the system for reporting non-functional street
lights
■ Improve GT Dining programs to make ordering, finding nutritional
information, and submitting feedback easier
○ Encourage Sustainability
■ Continue work with ElectrifyGT to push for the electrification of the
campus fleet as current vehicles reach the end of their life cycle
■ Continue the work for Zero-waste game days
■ Work to ban the use of single use plastics on campus
■ Continue work to standardize recycling practices across campus
■ Advocate for expanded recycling and composting in residence halls
■ Advocate for the quantifiable tracking of utility usage in all campus
buildings to better identify waste and inefficiencies
■ Improve sustainability education for all students, faculty, and staff