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The Associated Students, Inc. (ASI) Board of Directors is one of several governing bodies within ASI, but it is the only one that is completely chosen by students.
The construction of the board is simple: Students from each of Cal Poly’s six colleges — the College of Engineering; the College of Liberal Arts; the College of Architecture and Environmental Design (CAED); the College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences (CAFES); the College of Science and Mathematics (COSAM); and the Orfalea College of Business — serve on the board as representatives, and throughout the year their goal is to best represent the students within their specific colleges.
The makeup of the board changes each year, with some seats fluctuating between colleges as they enroll more students. For the 2013-14 school year, though, the divisions will be the same as this year’s have been. The College of Engineering and CAFES, the largest Cal Poly colleges, get the most representatives with five each. The College of Liberal Arts, COSAM and the Orfalea College of Business all follow with four representatives each, and CAED comes in last with two representatives.
The board is led by an elected chair and vice chair (currently agricultural science senior Kaitlin Harr and biological sciences junior Jordan Lippincott, respectively), which are chosen by the ASI Executive Board following representative elections.
Board of Directors meetings, which are held on alternating Wednesdays throughout the year, take place in the Julian A. McPhee University Union at 5 or 6 p.m. Representatives from the university and Cal Poly Corporation are regularly in attendance.
