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A student council (also known as a student union, associated student body or student parliament) is an administrative organization of students in different educational institutes ranging from elementary schools to universities and research organizations around the world.
High school student governments usually are known as Student Council. Student governments vary widely in their internal structure and degree of influence on institutional policy. At institutions with large graduate, medical school, and individual "college" populations, there are often student governments that serve those specific constituencies.
At educational institutions above primary education, each grade level or year of study is a class, referenced by the year of graduation, i.e., "Class of 2011".The official activities of these groups are generally organized and led by class officers, who are elected [1] in the late spring of each year for the term beginning in the fall, [2] or early in the fall term.
In case of a three way tie or a margin of victory less than 1%, the student council or the student House of Representatives elects the president via a majority vote. However, in case of a three way tie, the student council or the student house of representatives only considers the first and second place candidates for the position of President ...
Apr. 9—CONCORD — The chief author of bipartisan legislation (HB 1305) to adopt a freedom of speech policy on public higher education campuses urged a state Senate panel to reject any further ...
Campus police in Canada are sworn in as peace officers – giving them full police powers on their respective campuses to enforce the Criminal Code, as well as local bylaws. Peace officers in Canada do not typically carry firearms like their police counterparts, so campus officers only carry a baton, pepper spray, handcuffs and a radio ...
Mesquite police fired 19 rounds at a 16-year-old student at Pioneer Technology and Arts Academy after the student brought a gun to the North Texas school and then at one point aimed it at officers ...
More than 90 advocacy organizations signed a letter in protest of the campus bans and police search, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations said it was an attempt to suppress pro-Palestinian speech. The students' lawyer said that the patches were incorrectly translated and that the students had been racially profiled.