Nathalie McNair of Schodack Landing Serving as Student Senate Secretary at Hudson Valley Community College

2013 May 3

Nathalie McNair of Schodack Landing was elected to the position of Student Senate Secretary in Hudson Valley Community College's Student Senate.

The position is a one-year term. McNair is a Computer Information Systems: Web Design and WWW Programming student at the college.

The Student Senate promotes and coordinates student activities, authorizes the establishment of new clubs, and promotes students' interests on campus. It also assists with a budget that supports the college's extracurricular program of more than 50 different clubs.

The Student Senate is led by a president, vice president, secretary and treasurer, and senators and officers are elected every year by the student body. In any given year, the Senate has openings for freshmen and seniors representing all four academic schools on campus. Students also elect a freshman class president and senior class president.

Founded in 1953, Hudson Valley Community College offers more than 70 degree and certificate programs in four schools: Business; Engineering and Industrial Technologies; Health Science; and Liberal Arts and Sciences; and an Educational Opportunity Center for academic and career training. One of 30 community colleges in the State University of New York system, it has an enrollment of nearly 13,500 students, and is known as a leader in distance learning initiatives and workforce training. Hudson Valley has more than 70,000 alumni.