College Council

College Council is the student government organization at Williams. Its website is http://wso.williams.edu/orgs/cc.

Structure

Ordinarily led by two co-presidents, it includes student representatives of each class, neighborhood, and first year dorm. Council also has a Treasurer, MinCo representative, Secretary and representative from each neighborhood's governance board.

Current Officers:

Co-president: Kim Dacres '08
Co-president: Morgan Goodwin '08
Treasurer: Peter Nurnberg '09
Secretary: Remington Shepard '08

All-Campus Representatives:

2008: Diana Jaffe '08
2009: Rashid Duroseau '09
2010: Elizabeth Brickley '10
MinCo: Stephanie Kim '10

Neighborhood Board and At-Large Representatives:

Currier: Vince Powell-Newman '10
Dodd: Narae Park '10, Andrew Goldston '09
Spencer: Toni Kraeva '09, Jon Galinsky '10
Wood: Jon Prigoff '08, Rachel Ko '09

First-year Representatives:

Armstrong: Lane Wang '11
Dennett: Peter Huang '11
Mills: Muhammad Liaqat '11
Pratt: Brian Shepherd '11
Sage: Emanuel Yekutiel '11
Williams: Justin Routt '11

Responsibilities

College Council's three most important functions are:

Giving students a voice on campus issues.
Responsibly and fairly funding over 150 student groups and various campus events.
Providing a starting point for student initiatives to improve the campus or college programs.

CC also appoints all students to the student faculty committees These selections take place in the middle of the spring semester. For a list of committees, see the CC website's list of committees. For students interested in applying for committee positions, please read the guide for writing a good self-nom.

Projects

College Council works on projects suggested by the representatives or members of their constituencies, and has assisted in the success of such projects as bringing Ephporium to Spring Street and the Motorcoach service.

In the spring of 2006 College Council reps accomplished the projects listed here: Stuff CC has done.