Ibrahim Fetuga elected president

of North Central College Student Governing Association

NAPERVILLE, Ill.  -  Ibrahim Fetuga (pictured below, at right, with College President Harold R. Wilde and 2003 Anti-Hate Week keynote speaker, Morris Dees, center.) has been elected president of the North Central College Student Governing Association (SGA) by vote of the student body. During the past year, he served as vice president of SGA.

          The Student Governing Association, which serves as a representative voice for all North Central students, is comprised of four committees - Finance, Communications, Academic Life and Student Life. Fetuga will work closely with the dean of students, addressing enrollment management and student affairs issues. SGA is committed to serving students by recognizing, addressing, and resolving campus concerns, in addition to acting as a liaison for students to faculty, staff, administrators and the Board of Trustees.

          “As president of SGA, I want to work to increase diversity by helping to recruit and retain minority faculty,” said Fetuga. “I've placed this goal high on my agenda because it’s a major objective of the College’s Strategic Plan My other goal is to foster community relationships. SGA will continue to sponsor Anti-Hate Week, blood drives and Operation Good Faith, when North Central students head into our neighborhood to complete community service projects.”

          Fetuga - who is pursuing a double major in business management and entrepreneurship and small business management - has also been an active member of the North Central College Black Student Association and former vice president of the African American Brotherhood. For the last two years he has worked closely with incoming freshman classes, serving as both summer orientation leader and student mentor with the College’s FYI (Freshman Year Information) program. During his first year at North Central, Fetuga served as president of Seager Residence Hall and also played on the College’s varsity football team.

          A resident of Cincinnati, Fetuga is a 2001 graduate of the Culver Academies. He is the son of Wakeel Fetuga of Cincinnati and Sandra Fetuga of Nashville, Tenn.

          North Central College is an independent, comprehensive college of the liberal arts and sciences affiliated with the United Methodist Church and enrolling 2,450 students, including 1,800 full-time undergraduates and over 650 part-time undergraduate and graduate students. The College is located some 30 miles west of Chicago in the historic district of the City of Naperville, recently ranked by Money Magazine as “the best place to live” in the Midwest of cities with a population over 100,000.

          Founded in 1861 and known nationally for the quality of its faculty and students, North Central is recognized as one of “America's Best Colleges” by U.S. News & World Report, is ranked as “a college for high-achieving students” by Peterson's Competitive Colleges, and is among a select number of schools profiled in Kaplan’s Unofficial Insider’s Guide to the 320 Most Interesting Colleges. North Central – “where you are central” - is committed to academic excellence; a climate that emphasizes leadership, ethics and values; a curriculum that balances job-related knowledge with a liberal arts foundation; and a caring environment with small classes.