Responsible for allocating a roughly $3.7 million budget and formulating policies and long-range plans for the EMU, students elected to the EMU Board of Directors play a significant role in management of the 55-year-old student union.
Members of the 15-member committee allocate funding for services and programs such as the Outdoor Program. The board also designates space in the EMU for student groups and advises the professional EMU staff on how to renovate and maintain the building.

Comprising 12 students, three faculty members and an EMU staff representative, the board is divided into two central committees. Members sitting on the Budget Committee formulate a budget for the EMU, including setting funding priorities.
This year’s committee allocated growth to several organizations after accounting errors and increases in health-care costs altered the proposed budget several times during the funding process, allowing for growth.

Members of the House Committee, the other main committee, are responsible for developing “recommendations in the development, maintenance, upkeep, utilization, and assignment of spaces in the EMU,” according to the EMU Governance Document.
Two of the at-large members are elected to lead the board as chair and vice chair.
Students elected to Senate Seats 4 and 6 also sit on the ASUO Student Senate, the 18-member body that approves budgets for the PFC, the Athletic Department Finance Committee and the EMU Board.
Senators also decide whether to approve groups’ special requests for Senate surplus funds and represent students in matters relating to personnel services, University housing, campus design and University budgeting, according to the ASUO Constitution.

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