Office of the President

Zafir Uddin is the currently elected Student Association President for the school year 2011-2012. He is a Business major with a concentration in Marketing and Management. Zafir has been involved with just about every facet of Student Involvement. His involvement with Student Association began his freshman year working as an intern for the Office of Marketing. During that time, he worked actively in conjunction with his marketing team and assisted in all promotional efforts for the concert series as well as all SA departmental events. The following year, Zafir was hired as the Associate Marketing Director and assisted in hosting major events such as the Fall Speaker Series featuring Colin Powell, the Spring Speaker Series featuring Karl Rove and Howard Dean, as well as the Fall Concert and Splash Stage at Fountain Day. As the Associate Marketing Director, Zafir was responsible for over twenty interns as well as the monthly SA Free Day magazine series, which became a huge success rapidly. During the beginning of the fall semester, Zafir became the first Director of Events and Awareness; a managerial position where he was responsible for two Associate Directors as well as four Assistant Directors in both the Marketing and Programming Departments. He provided oversight to all SA Free Day events and interns, and worked with all marketing and programming efforts of the Student Association. Zafir was also responsible for the new SA Cares initiatives both campus wide and throughout the community. The SA Cares projects grew tremendously during the fall semester; some of the accomplishments to name a few, began with the Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund in which the brand was created; the Community Clean-Ups throughout downtown Albany, the Holiday Toy Drive with Project Strive, in addition to numerous community service efforts throughout the campus. For the spring semester, Zafir was promoted to serve as the new Marketing Director in which he was responsible for all marketing efforts of the Student Association. Zafir worked on the media and marketing aspects of numerous events such as the annual PARKFEST concert series. One of his largest accomplishments as the Director of Marketing was selling out the SEFCU Arena in its entirety for the fourth installment of the World Within Reach Speaker Series featuring President Bill Clinton, founder of The William J. Clinton Foundation and the 42nd President of the United States of America.

In addition to Student Association, Zafir was a Resident Assistant on Alumni Quad and an intramurals commissioner for Flag Football under the new Campus Recreation Department. Zafir was also an after school coordinator for Men of Model, Inc., which is primarily a mentoring based organization that works with promising junior high school students on Personal, Professional and Educational development through educational and recreational activities. Currently, he is only serving as the President of Student Association so that he can actively and passionately advocate on behalf of and for the over 13,000 students that attend this University.

Zafir Uddin
President
Student Association at the State University of New York at Albany, Inc. ("UAlbany Student Association")
zuddin@albany.edu
(518) 442-5640 (Student Association)
(518) 442-5641 (fax)