Miscellaneous records of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) Student Association
and its predecessors, the Commonwealth and the University Student Government. The majority
of the collection consists of minutes, correspondence, reports, bills, and legislation of
the student government and its committees, including the Student Senate, the Executive
Committee, the Senate Appropriations Committee (SAC), and the Segregated Fee Allocation
Committee (SFAC). Also included are records of the Union Policy Board, which sets policy for
the Student Union, a funding appeal from the Wisconsin Student Public Interest Group, and
reports to the Student Association.
The collection also includes records from the University Student Court, which serves as the
judicial branch of the Student Association. Most of these records are briefs and reports
from the various cases heard by the student court between 1966-2008. Some of the case files
in this series also include evidentiary material deemed vital to an understanding of the
case. A few files in this series deal with general issues that come before the court
regularly, such as election disputes and funding.
Also included is the 2014 constitution of the UWM Student Association, approved via student
referendum and signed by the Chancellor and Student Association Reform Task Force on January
30, 2014. The constitution is the result of an 8-month process of reconstituting the Student
Association, following fraudulent elections and the dissolution of the Student Association
by the Chancellor in Spring 2013.
