User:Butchoxendine

Butch Oxendine is founder and executive director of the American Student Government Association, the national organization that serves and supports collegiate student governments. ASGA has 1,251 member institutions nationwide and produce 10 training conferences each year attended by thousands of student leaders and administrators. ASGA also conducts ground-breaking research on student government-related issues including the growth in women and minorities serving in student government, voter turnout in SG elections, and compensation paid to elected SG leaders.

Butch can help with any question you have about Student Government, period. He is the nation's #1 Student Government consultant and expert. He's executive director of ASGA, was publisher and editor in chief of Student Leader, has written three SG-related books, and speaks frequently at the SG conventions nationwide.

Butch was SGA vice president and editor-in-chief of the college newspaper (serving at the same time) at Lake City Community College, then served as SG press secretary and editor of The Campus Leader at the University of Florida.

Named in 1992 as one of the nation's top 100 entrepreneurs under age 30 by the Association for Collegiate Entrepreneurs, Butch has been publishing student-oriented magazines, books, and web sites for nearly 30 years. He studied journalism at the University of Florida, but left school in 1984 to work full-time on his first magazine, Florida Leader.

He later launched four other publications, including the national magazine Student Leader. He travels frequently to speak and present leadership seminars and has written three books on student-leadership issues, including So You Want to Be President...How to Get Elected on Your Campus, Poster Secrets: How & Where to Hang Flyers on Your Campus, and Inspiration for Student Leaders.

Butch is married to Kathy, and they have a daughter, Leah, son Will, twins Adam and Andrew, and son Luke. Butch enjoys being a Trekker, loves Firefly, the new Battlestar Galatica, working outdoors, serving his God and church, wrestling with the young-'uns, and cheering for the Florida Gators and Tampa Bay Rays.