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Pace University, NY
Type: private
Enrollment: 10,000 (Chowdhury); 3,500 (Diep)
Name of SG: Student Government Association
SG’s web site: not provided
SG’s phone:646-218-5771
SG advisor: Dawn Knipe
SG advisor’s phone: 212-346-1590
SG advisor’s e-mail: dknipe@pace.edu
SG’s annual budget: $8,000 operating budget, and $450,000 budget that Budge Allocation Council disburses (Chowdhury); $4,000 operating, $170,000 activities fee (Diep)
Compensation:
     Chowdhury
     Presidnet, Vice President, Treasurer, Secretary—each person receives $3,336 per semester ($6,672 per year). School pays for 6 credit per semester. We get six credits of tuition reimbursement each semester. It’s not taxed. We get it at the end of the semester. It comes from the school budeget “set-aside” for students who provide services to the school
     Diep
"At Pace, the four executive board positions (president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer) each get 6 credits of tuition remission per semester. The worth of the six credit's tuition remission is $2,500 per semester. There are no other perks. In order to attend conferences, we fundraise from the different department in the school. We do, however, have a $4,000 budget for supplies and general expenditures."
Other Perks:
     Chowdhury
     “Each of us have a computer and shared office space, travel to a conference per semester, and award and dinner at the end of the school year.”
Sources: Shal Chowdhury, SGA treasurer, responded by web on 12/1/02; lizabeth Diep, SGA president, responded at the 20th annual National Leadership Conference on Student Government, 10/30-11/1/98 and by 3-mail on 11/26/98
     Chowdhury
     “It doesn’t necessarily have to be salary, but there must be some sort of compensation.
     Diep
"I think that today more than ever, SGA officers should be compensated in some way. More and more students have to work part-time in order to support themselves and takes away time from SGA work.
     “Stipend and a tuition waiver is good.”

Pacific Lutheran University, WA
Type: private
Enrollment: 3,600
Name of SG: Associated Students of PLU
SG’s annual budget: $160,000
Compensation:
     "They receive a paycheck if they like. They do not get any benefits other than free admission to SG events. Our school is 3,600 and our executives get paid $4,500 a year. Our directors get paid $3,000 to $4,000. Our senators do not get paid.
     Director of public relations-- $3,500
     Director of programs-- $3,500
     The ‘Cave’ (our non-alcoholic sports bar) directors-- $3,500
     Assistant ‘Cave’ director-- $2,500
     Director of diversity-- $2,500
     Director of off-campus student affairs (commuter relations)-- $2,500
     Director of Christian relations-- $2,500
     Director of finance-- $4,000
     Director of Impact (printing/media/webdevelopment)-- $4,000
     Productions manager of Impact (co-director)-- $3,500
Source: Sean Howell, executive caucus leader, responded by web on 3/27/00 and by e-mail on 3/27/00
     "Students should choose to be an officer for volunteer reasons, but the organization needs to realize that professionalism is key. Maintaining that is aided by considering these positions as jobs…makes them accountable.
     "No. They need to be treated as employees with job accountability."

Palm Beach Atlantic University, FL
Type: private
Enrollment: not provided
Name of SG: Student Government
Web Address: http://www.pbac.edu/clubs/htdocs/student%5Fgovernment.htm
Phone: 561-827-8103
E-mail: pmk765@yahoo.com
Advisor: Janice Trigg
Advisor’s phone: 561-803-2561
Advisor’s e-mail: triggj@pbac.edu
SG's annual budget: not provided
Compensation:
     “As a member of Palm Beach Atlantic’s Student Government, we only received a banquet at the end of the year and the recognition of being a student leader.”
Other perks:
     “We have a nice office and a beautiful meeting room.”
Source: Survey completed by web on 7/11/02 by Pamela Kiefer, 00-01 junior class senator
     “No. I have been an officer in Student Government. I believe that the students’ rewards for the positions are seeing positive changes in the school. It provides students with great experience to go out in the political world. Paying students to participate in SG might attract students who are only interested in the money and not the student body. Perks would be nice, but not a salary.
     “I believe compensation is appropriate in the form of a scholarship or tuition waiver. Many of the students in Student Government do not live on campus and would not benefit from a free meal plan and we do not have reserved parking for faculty, so the school would not likely provide reserved parking for SG officers. The scholarship idea is great and I believe Palm Beach Atlantic should do this for its officers.”

Pasco-Hernando Community College, FL
Type: community college
Enrollment: 1,000 (6,000 total between 3 campuses)
Name of SG: Student Government Association
SGA annual budget: $4,508
Compensation:
president — $150 per term ($300 per year tuition waiver)
vice president — $150 per term ($300 per year tuition waiver)
secretary, treasurer, parliamentarian — $100 per year
"All other officers except historian receive $50 per term. There are no extra perks or privileges, aside from attending a conference."
Source: Cassandra English, SGA president, responded by mail on 12/9/97; Shirla Andes, assistant coordinator for student activities, responded by mail on 12/9/97
English:
     "Absolutely. I spend more hours dealing with issues and presenting activities for the student body than I spend on my classes and job combined.
     "SGA should be paid because all other clubs are able to fundraise and do things for themselves with those funds."
Andes:
     "Yes, they put in a lot of time and have a lot of responsibility. Without compensation, you would not get the necessary level of quality and commitment in applicants. If SGA stipends are questioned, what about athletes?"

Paul Smiths College, NY
Type: private
Enrollment:
Name of SG: Student Government Association
SG's annual budget: $130,000 annually
Compensation:
"I was the junior class president last year. All we received was a sweatshirt and $25.
Source: Survey completed by web on 9/7/99 by Jennifer Audette, senior class president
     "Yes. They work extremely hard and spend numerous hours of dedicated time and effort.
     "No, they deserve it."

Penn State University, PA
Type: public
Enrollment: 38,446
Name of SG: Undergraduate Student Government (USG)
SG's annual budget: $40,000 operating budget
Compensation:
president — gets full in-state tuition credit, which was $2,717 per semester last year
vice president — 80 percent ($2,174)
chief justice of Supreme Court — gets 30 percent or $815
senate president — gets a stipend of $815
academic assembly president — gets $815
appointed
chief of staff — gets 30 percent
treasurer — gets 20 percent $345
Desmond: "We have no other official or assumed stipends, no parking pass or room on campus. I get invited to university functions, and some will be to football game or an honorary dinner.
Source: Jamie Desmond, president of USG, responded by phone on 6/26/97; Julie J. Acker, Residence Life assistant director, responded by mail on 3/19/98; and e-mail on 4/1/98
Desmond: "Student activity fees are not disbursed by another university group, with students who are appointed. It leaves the politics away from the finances. We have to apply for money just like any student groups."
     "I'm an out-of-state student, so I'm paying double tuition anyway. This helps make ends meet. I probably wouldn't have been able to run, (typically spent about $1,200), that was me charging on my credit card, so I took that financial risk. i knew that if I won, I would have to pay less for tuition.
     "We haven't gotten beaten down from our press, whose top students get stipends as well. We're not the only student group that works incredibly hard. There are so many groups that work hard, and not all of them get stipends. So it's an quality issue. I can't have a part-time job, because of my responsibilities. I probably spend about 30 to 40 hours a week on USG business.
     "The reasoning is helping us make up for the money we could have earned."
Acker: “Yes, they deserve to get paid something. However, with pay, there should be clear expectations and be held accountable for their actions.
     “To some degree I think paying is not a good idea, but you can not hold them accountabe. By paying them, they can be held accountable to expectations.”

Pepperdine University, CA
Type: private
Enrollment: 2,800
Name of SG: Student Government Association
SG’s annual budget: $252,000 (Veenendaal); $240,000 (McCullough)
SG’s web address: http://studentorgs.pepperdine.edu/sga/index2.htm
SG’s phone: (310) 506-4360
SG’s e-mail: sgatreas@pepperdine.edu
SG advisor: Nicole Phillips
SG advisor’s phone: (310) 506-4360
SG advisor’s e-mail: Nicole.Phillips@pepperdine.edu
Compensation:
      Veenendaal
      $4,000 scholarship per year-- semester
      $1,800 stipend per year—semester. Stipend is the only one that is generated by student fees.
      $2,000 work study per year-- biweekly
     President-- $1,800
     Vice President-- $1,800
     Treasurer-- $1,800
     Secretary-- $1,800
     McCullough
     1. A semester stipend of $750
     2. A semester scholarship of $1,500
     3. Access to reserved parking lot.
     4. Office space.
Other Perks:
    Veenendaal
    “When we have events, we can get free tickets, same for concerts. We have our own private office, we have a private computer and the president gets a private laptop. We have parking privileges. We work during the summer so we have free housing during that time. An SGA rep gets to travel to conference. We have around six personal secretaries and an executive board intern.”
Sources: Ben M. Veenendaal, treasurer, responded by web on 2/25/02; Charles McCullough, SGA president, responded by mail on 3/15/00
     Veenendaal
     “I do believe that they should be paid. We put in long hours and sacrifice our GPA and opportunities to serve in other organizations.
     “The executive board should be the only ones being compensated. We dedicate our college career to this office and should be compensated for it. Even with compensation with the amount of hours that we put in it amounts to centers per hour. The best form of compensation is how we have it structured. I have it outlined in an above question.”
     McCullough
     "To ensure that well-qualified leaders are not lured away to internships and other jobs, I believe it is necessary for SG officers to be offered pay."

Phillipine Christian University Palapala, Dasmarinas, Cavite, Phillipines
Type: private ecumenical university
Enrollment: ?
Name of SG: University Student Government of PCU Dasmarinas
SG annual budget: $200- $400 phillipine pesos
Compensation:
     “Honoraria, scholarships, and the privilege to represent the school in seminars in different places. Only those who are having hard times in paying school fees may request scholarships. Members of the student publication’s editorial board receive honoraria on request. It’s a privilege or a humble compensation to the selfless efforts of the student leaders. Check depending on the approval of the body and the audited financial status, release is by request. They also get a private office, preferential registration, travel allowance to seminars and conferences, use of school facilities.”
Source: Soul M. Remollo responded by web on 2/8/01
     “No. Student leaders should only receive compensation in the form of honoraria and scholarships. Students do not enter school and pay for their bills to hire student leaders to form the student council. The main purpose of student leadership in campuses is service—assistance and resistance.”

Pima Community College, AZ
Type: community college
Enrollment: 30,075
Name of SG: Student Government
SG's annual budget: ???
Compensation: "nothing"
Source: Christina Colchado, SG and Leadership Council president, wrote on 10/20/97
     "Not usually. By being a part of Student Government, students are committing themselves to be involved. When salaries are added, motives often change and views become muddled."
     "Not if they are working above and beyond the call of regular duty."

Pima Community College-West campus, AZ
Type: community college
Enrollment: 12,000
Name of SG: WC Student Government
SG’s annual budget: $7,200
Compensation:
LaVance:
     "Tuition waiver is the only thing SG officers earn. It is a leadership award that is also available to all club officers. It requires a 3.0 average. President, vice president, secretary/treasurer are all eligible, as well as any club representative that serves, as well as officers of clubs (there are about 8 active clubs)."
Pollack:
     Tuition waiver is worth $416 per semester (full-time tuition of 12 credits per semester)
Source: Anne LaVance, WC Student Government secretary/treasurer, responded at the 20th annual National Leadership Conference on Student Government, 10/30-11/1/98 and by phone on 11/18/98; Mike Pollack, Clorez GLBT Club president, responded by phone on 11/18/98
     "I think an award or scholarship for tuition is acceptable, but anything in excess would not be the 'right" motivating force."

Polytechnic University, NY
Type: private
Enrollment: 3,518
Name of SG: Student Council
SG's annual budget: $88,000 (90 percent goes to clubs)
Compensation: "Nothing — big N.O."
"While there are no formal scholarships, I provide the financial aid with a list of campus leaders, and some get help. Quite often, there will be a donor who's looking for a particular type of student. They are about six cash prizes given out at the end of the year — cash award ($250) given to "Student Humanitarian of the Year" usually goes to someone associated with our service fraternity. I divide $400 between the graduating seniors and the student council, they get a plaque and a small amount of money."
Source: Don Ivanoff, director of student activities, responded by phone on 7/29/97
     "It's not to say that there aren't compensation. For instance, conference attendance and perks of having an office to study in, and use of equipment. We're big into giving clubs and organizations office space. We're actively working with clubs to get their officers to attend conferences.
     "If I gave them a choice, could they get paid or go to a national conference, they're going to choose the conference.
     "If they don't learn that volunteering is a good thing, they're never going to learn it. Because engineering is so dollar driven, I have a hard enough time getting students to do activities.
     "We've been talking about paying the advertising manager of the school newspaper, as well as photographers for the yearbooks nd the school newspaper. We're paying for a specific skills. Part of the logic is that someone is on the payroll, presumably they can be hired and fired, and that becomes messy in a student group. If the advertising manager isn't producing, you can fire the person if they're not making a profit."

Pomona College, CA
Type: private
Enrollment: 1,300
Name of SG: Associated Students of Pomona College
SG's annual budget: $281,000
Compensation:
president — $450 per semester
     "There is no tuition waiver, parking, or similar perks. The president will be invited to many campus activities and is frequently provided free admission to these programs."
Source: Neil B. Gerard, associate dean of students/director, campus center, responded by e-mail on 8/11/97
     "Student government positions, especially executive officers, are very time consuming affairs. Without some remuneration, these upper-level positions are available only to those who are financially well-off. I believe that a stipend levels the playing field and allows more students the opportunity to serve in this way.
     "In general, student involved in co-curricular activities should be volunteers. When the nature of that involvement is so time consuming as to preclude a student job, others factors need to be considered."

Prairie State College, IL
Type: community college
Enrollment: 5,285
Name of SG: Student Government Association
SG's annual budget: $50,000
Compensation:
     "We have a leadership stipend at the end of the year that students can apply for. The president and vice president usually get it. Kind of like a scholarship — get it at end of the year, they have to write an essay, he and his supervisor decides. Typically give out five or six — usually about $350, down to $100. Usually is the president, but that's not guaranteed. Other leaders are permitted to apply as well, but typically the SGA officers get it. President gets a free locker outside the student leadership center, ($5 per semester). We don't have advanced registration or parking, no tickets to events or shows or concerts."
Source: Chris George, coordinator of student life/advisor to SGA, responded by fax on 9/17/97
     "I feel that student activities positions should be volunteer only. The reason is because they receive great experience and allowing students to receive payment causes and changes the nature of the getting involved for the wrong reasons.
     "It depends on the institution. I could see it possibly at a community college because many students do not want to get involved because of their many time commitments."

Presbyterian College, SC
Type: private
Enrollment: 1,200
Name of SG: Student Government Association
SG annual budget: $57,000
Compensation:
     “The Executive Council of the Student Government Association receives monetary compensation (a stipend) for service.
President-- $1,000.00
Vice-President--  $500.00
Secretary-- $250.00
Treasurer-- $400.00
Judicial Council Chair-- $150.00
     “SGA Office, Computer, Travel to conferences, use of several computers, several campus staff that assist in secretarial and administrative duties. This comes from the SGA Budget, which comes out of the college's general fund, not the Student Activity Fee.”
Source: Mitchell Spearman, president, responded by web on 3/23/01
     “Yes. The time that is put into the office detracts from jobs and activities. This allows all students, not just the affluent to serve and have extra funds.”

Princeton University, NJ
Type: private
Enrollment: 4,500
Name of SG: Undergraduate Student Government
SG's annual budget: $200,000 a year
Compensation:
"Nothing, except we throw the concerts every year so we get ‘free’ $10 tickets to our own events."
Source: Survey completed by web on 8/23/99 by P.J. Kim, vice president
     "No, they should not be paid cash salaries. But if they are on financial aid, then the ‘self-help’ portion of their aid package should be forgiven since that money is expected to be earned from a campus job which an SG officer does not have time to perform if they want to serve student interests to the best of their ability.
     "No, it’s not wrong to make it financially possible for ‘every’ student willing to sacrifice a campus job to serve his/her fellow students, especially if they are on financial aid. I don’t think we should be paid a cash salary, however."

Purdue University, IN
Type: public
Enrollment: 43,000 (36,000 undergrads, 7,000 graduate)
Name of SG: Purdue Student Government
SG's annual budget: $60,000
Compensation:
President — $500 check per semester
Vice President — $500 check per semester
"I can get an 'A' parking permit= faculty parking permit."
Source: James F. Chisholm, Jr., PSG president, responded by mail on 11/10/97
     "Yes, more or less a full-time job with full-time responsibilities.
     "No, I do not believe it is wrong. When representing 36,000 students it is a time-consuming, stressful, job."

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