Arkansas Tech University Student Government Association hosted a retreat at Doc Bryan Student Services Center on Friday, Sept. 12, to prepare the student senate to fulfill its roles on campus during the 2025-26 academic year.
Agenda items included reviewing the ATU SGA Constitution, discussing the ATU student discount program and brainstorming new possibilities for that initiative and communicating expectations for SGA members appointed to university committees.
The gathering also provided ATU SGA with an opportunity to set the dates for Wonder Week 2026, which will take place Feb. 2-7 with the annual Gold Rush basketball games set for Thursday, Feb. 5.
Wonder Week is a series of events each winter that is designed to build school spirit in support of the ATU basketball teams and an enhanced sense of community on campus. Wonder Week is planned and executed by ATU Student Government Association.
Carson Smith of Russellville is serving as SGA president during the 2025-26 academic year.
He is joined on the ATU Student Government Association executive board by senior Morgen Burgess of Shirley (vice president), junior Fernando Flores of Clarksville (secretary of finance and administration), sophomore Diana Jimenez-Cruz of Russellville (secretary of student engagement), sophomore Courtney Mayberry of East End (secretary of public relations), junior Carly Mitchell of Amity (secretary of community outreach) and junior Bethani Walter of Dardanelle (secretary of internal affairs).
Amy Pennington, ATU vice president for student affairs, and Kevin Solomon, ATU assistant vice president for campus life, serve as advisors to ATU Student Government Association.
The published mission statement for ATU Student Government Association is “to genuinely represent the interests of students and enhance the student decision-making process, to improve campus life through the creation and continuation of viable and effective student services, to preserve and protect the traditions of the university and to support students and student organizations in their academic and community endeavors.”
ATU Student Government Association meets at 12:05 p.m. each Wednesday during the fall and spring semesters. The meetings will take place in Doc Bryan Student Services Center room 242 during the fall 2025 semester. They are open to the public.
ATU Student Government Association executive board conducts its weekly meetings at noon Mondays in the Mary Anne Salmon Senate Chamber, Doc Bryan Student Services Center room 180.
ATU SGA meetings will move to Ferguson Student Union when it opens in spring 2026.
Learn more about ATU Student Government Association at www.atu.edu/sga.
