This year, Mississippi State University will host the Southeastern Conference exchange for student body government. It will begin today and continue until Sunday.
Student Association President Thomas Sellers said all 12 schools in the SEC are represented by their student presidents at the conference. Other members of the student government also are invited to come, and each school decides how many members they will send. This year, there will be 58 delegates from other schools, in addition to the nine council members from MSU.
“The best thing about it is the ability to network and share ideas,” he said. “Something Kentucky is doing and we think is good idea, we can implement it here.”
Sellers said the conference will also feature Mike Slive, SEC commissioner, and Hank Bounds, Institute Higher Learning commissioner. Slive will talk about the SEC and cover ways students, particularly student governments, can get involved.
“We are the same conference, and even though we are opponents on the football field and in basketball games, we want the conference to do well,” he said. “We want to make sure the SEC is the best conference in the nation.”
Sellers said Bounds will talk about education across the S.outheastern U.S. and what he sees happening in the future. He said the conference is also a good way for people planning to run for office in the spring to meet other people.
He said each group will give a sevenminute presentation of what is going on at their campus, and they also will have a breakout session in which they will separate according to their leadership position.
Drew Weiskopf, director of the SEC Exchange, said the breakout session will be held by the SA advisers Lisa Harris, Thomas Bourgeois, Bill Kibler, Bill Broyles and Tabor Mullen.