UCOSA swears in new Executive Team and holds first meeting

The University of Central Oklahoma Student Association (UCOSA) swore in their new executive members on Monday, Sept. 9 at their first meeting of the 2024-2025 academic year. They swore in President Cooper Autry, Vice President Reda Errahmouni, Chair Rylan Bolt, Vice Chair Niklas Nelson and Secretary Meleah Meyer.

“I ran on the pillars to unite, uphold, and uplift our student body,” Autry said. “So within that, one of the things we are working on is student involvement and student engagement.”

Autry said UCOSA is seeking to better facilitate communication with students through increased social media and hope to build a better following.

“We have been posting numerous reels, pictures and things like that,” Autry said. “We get great student engagement from that.”

Autry also said that he has been trying to meet with various departments on campus.

“This summer I met with the parking department,” Autry said. “This week I put out a video on some advice they gave me to pass on to students.”

Autry said the reason he is meeting with the various departments is to understand different perspectives from around campus. He plans on doing this throughout the semester in order to pass along information to students that is helpful to them. 

“One thing we are doing with student engagement is to encourage students to attend athletic events,” Autry said. 

Autry said this allows students to support the student athletes and gives students an opportunity to get engaged, to get involved, and to show their Broncho spirit. 

“The reason we emphasize going to athletic events is because it is a great way for students to come together,” Autry said. “Even students who are not in student organizations. It is really a good way for everyone to come together as Bronchos.” 

Autry said they are also working on partnering with food drives. They are partnering with Central Pantry to fight food insecurity on campus. 

“We are really trying, through everything we do, to reach as many students as we can in as many different areas of campus as we can,” Autry said. 

“Myself and the rest of the executive members are here for UCO students,” Autry said. “We want to hear from them. We want them to come visit us. We’re each in the office ten hours a week. We want students to come in and talk to us.” 

UCOSA meets every Monday at 4 p.m. in the Mary Fallin Room in the Nigh University Center. The UCOSA office is on the first floor of the Nigh University Center.