SGA gives surveys for student feedback

The Student Government Association is trying to reach out to students through surveys handed out at the Sam Rayburn Student Center every other Wednesday. SGA Vice-Chair Lauren Booe is heading the operation.

The surveys contain questions for students to answer that will let SGA know what students want or need to improve campus life.

"What we are trying to accomplish is not only to get SGA out to the students and form contact, relationship and awareness, but also to survey students on how SGA can help make Texas A&M University-Commerce better," Booe said.

The surveys ask questions that have been brought to SGA and convey ideas that students have expressed they would like to see implemented. Topics addressed in the questions include campus security, crosswalks and transportation around campus, and external affairs.

"We get different responses from students," Booe said. "Some are willing to fill it out, some wonder what it's for and some assume we are trying to get them to sign their lives away."

SGA has different committees within the organization. These committees trade off Wednesdays to run the table in the atrium of the student center from 11 a.m to 2 p.m. Approximately 150 surveys are handed out each time with three questions on each formulated by the designated committees. With the results from the surveys, SGA plans their next step.

"The next action is we go through each and every one of the surveys and see the most popular responses," Booe said. "Then we talk among our committees on what we can do to implement the idea or suggestions."

Freshman Morgan Drew said she liked the idea, because while students are allowed to go to SGA meetings, many of them cannot attend.

"I think this is a good way to get students' voices heard," Drew said. "I believe this is more beneficial because most students cannot go to nor do they really have time to go to the meetings."

The committees within SGA decided the location of the tables, however, some students feel that having more tables in a variety of places would help gather assorted results.

"I believe that SGA should put more tables around campus other than the SRSC," Junior Camme Pearson said. "Some students, like myself, are hardly ever in the student center so maybe putting them in the recreation center and library would be beneficial."