Student Government’s set goals for the 2025 spring semester include forming an organization to select a student regent, creating an emergency meal plan and welcoming new representatives.
Advocacy Director Jonathan Wilson said he plans to revitalize One Texas, an organization of student leaders across campus which Wilson said has been inactive, and ultimately select a student regent. The student regent serves a one-year term and has the same rights as regularly appointed UT System board members. Wilson said the organization also discusses ways to help students around campus.
“(My goal is to make) all organizations feel like they can come straight to One Texas, and be part of something larger and facilitate more collaborations,” said Wilson, an international business junior.
Wilson said he also plans to work with UT Outpost to establish an emergency meal plan to address food insecurity on campus. He said he hopes to garner student support, secure University funding and create a donation-based system to support subsidized meal plans.
Speaker of the Assembly Nidhi Chanchlani said one of her biggest goals is to support outgoing and incoming representatives during the transition period in April. She said she wants to ensure current representatives on their way out can achieve everything they need with their position and new representatives have a good foundation to get started for their terms.
Chanchlani also said SG is working on finalizing ongoing projects including a peer advising program and expanding evening class availability.
“The theme this year has been broadening resources, and, especially with peer advising and evening classes, we’re taking what’s already available to us and amplifying it in a way that better suits student needs,” said Chanchlani, a psychology, government and humanities junior.
Chanchlani said the assembly is developing a peer advising proposal to submit to the administration for approval. She said the evening class project is taking longer due to logistics like faculty availability and enough open classrooms.
Chanchlani said the assembly often struggles to finish projects due to the UT bureaucracy and longevity of the projects. She said she wants to ensure more projects are picked up and continued by future assemblies.
“The hope is that students are able to stay true to the, ‘What starts here, changes the world,’ (slogan) and hone in … and be able to do everything that they want to do, especially when it comes to internships and out-of-classroom experiences,” Chanchlani said.
