Student Association (SA)

SA Policies
1) All the students enrolled at TAC are members of SA.
2) The highest standard of the activities organized by SA is based on EGW’s writing “Messages to Young People”.
3) SA is obliged to support campus religious activities, such as Adventist Youth.
4) In order to facilitate activities, students pay a membership due at the time of registration each semester.
5) The staff is divided into: one president, one vice president, one secretary, one treasurer, one club director, organization leaders, and team members.
6) SA President is a representative for the student body who manages SA, gives student feedback to school administration, serves as a bridge between the school administration and the student body, presides SA meetings, attends Student Affairs Committee meeting and other designated meetings, and assesses SA official performance.
7) SA Vice President assists President in promoting the proposed project, reminding the President of the proposed matters, supervising the respective organizations, and attending Student Affairs Committee and other designated meetings and assessing SA official performance.
8) SA Secretary does clerical work in writing the minutes of the meeting, coordinating personnel, managing documents, and reminding SA President of the proposed activities.
9) The Treasurer manages all the funds of SA. The registration of the costs, the review of the accounts, show receipts, makes organization budgets, withdraws money from TAC Finance Office, and gives regular reports of funds to SA president and Dean of Student Affairs, accepts the supervision of Finance Office and Dean of Student Affairs, prepares accounts at the time of handover to the next president, and files a copy of the information at the Dean of Student Affairs Office.
10) Club Director makes plans for all clubs, decides and implements budgets verifies, communicates and coordinates, promotes interpersonal relationships, team spirit, honor, and inspires special talents and so on.
11) SA will set up the following organization:
a、 Social worker: to promote community service
b、 Academic: to promote academic activities, to assist the establishment of clubs, all activities must be screened by Dean of Student Affairs.
c、 Recreation: to promote recreational activities, hosting Saturday night recreational programs.
d、 Service: Responsible for convening student support for all organizational activities and promoting all service activities.
e、 Publicity: Design posters and flyers for SA activities.
f、 Food: Give feedback to cafeteria director regarding menu and service.
g、 SA President and Vice President recommend all the officials, including secretary and treasurer to Dean of Student Affairs.
12) Election: SA President and Vice President are nominated by the student body, screened by the College President, the Chaplain, and the Dean of Student Affairs, and voted by the student body. Election is held before the end of May each year and supervised by the Dean of Student Affairs. If appropriate candidate cannot be produced by the election process, the school administration will appoint a senior to chair this position. S/he will be exempted from other responsibilities in student service.
13) Transfer: Transfer takes place two weeks after the election, the old and new SA presidents will set up a team for. The handover ceremony is presided over by Dean of Student Affairs.
14) Candidates for SA President should have GPA more than 75% and citizenship more than 85%, whereas other staff more than 75%.
15) Staff meetings are held once a month. Each group reports an overview of the work, reviews the work of the month, and makes plans for the following month. If necessary, convenes an interim meeting with the Dean of Student Affair.
16) All activities are to be closed before 21:30 unless otherwise permitted.
17) All activities are required to be screened by the Dean of Student Affair for approval. Once SA activities have been drafted and approved, they will be announced in Chinese and English.
18) SA officials are volunteers with no payroll.
19) Membership dues will be kept in TAC Finance Office and registered into the student’s account with only authorized access.
20) SA examines students’ service attitude, and SA president will report to the Dean of Student Affairs who will determine and give merit or demerit.