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December 14, 2004
McDonald elected MAPCS president
The Minnesota Association of Private College Students, a student-led group linking Minnesota’s 17 private four-year colleges and universities, elected Hamline sophomore, HUSC representative, and Student Media Board member Tim McDonald as their president on Nov. 21.
McDonald will lead the governing board of MAPCS for a two-year term. MAPCS is formed by the student-body president and a student representative from each university.
Prior to his election, McDonald was the university’s MAPCS student representative. Because the presidential voting is done by the student-body presidents and representatives, the MAPCS president is elected, albeit indirectly, by the students and institutions they represent, McDonald said.
McDonald ran on a dual-faceted platform that involved grassroots organization “to keep students warm” to MAPCS and its actions, and to find out who in the Minnesota legislature is knowledgeable about higher education. After searching for someone who will “champion our cause,” McDonald said, MAPCS will “find them and light their fire.”
“We need people fighting on our behalf where we can,” McDonald said.
MAPCS’s primary duties are to represent Minnesota’s private colleges and to lobby the state legislature on issues involving higher education, most of which pertain to the state grants students receive as part of their financial-aid packages, McDonald said.
“Private schools are the state investing in themselves,” McDonald said.
Through effective lobbying, MAPCS will fight for something students desperately need, McDonald said.
“We’re the body that can make a difference.”
Posted by msveum at December 14, 2004 10:27 AM