The three resolutions left off of the GPSA ballot last month passed with little opposition last week.
Graduate and professional students voted no confidence in former Regents President Jamie Koch and requested an external audit and a re-evaluation of decision-making structures at UNM.
According to the GPSA Web site, 85 percent of voters were in favor of the no-confidence vote, 90 percent were in favor of the audit, and 90 percent were in favor of the reorganization of decision-making structures.
Koch declined to comment.
Of the 6,304 students invited to vote, 200 voted, or 3 percent of the graduate and professional student population. In the first GPSA election, 569 students voted.
"The graduate and professional students have spoken," GPSA President-elect Lissa Knudsen said. "And I will work with the GPSA Council, the faculty, the staff and the UNM administration to address their concerns."
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In a meeting on Feb. 25, members of the UNM voting faculty passed the same five motions that were later placed on the GPSA ballot.
Faculty Senate President Howard Snell said the GPSA results could send a message to the UNM administration.
"I think it's good for the GPSA to express opinions about issues such as this," he said. "I think there's been a fair amount of activity with the faculty and the administration after the votes of no confidence from the general faculty meeting. And I think that, perhaps, the graduate student votes will reinforce some of that activity."
Douglas Fields, president-elect of the Faculty Senate, said the GPSA vote of no confidence represents the feelings of the entire graduate and professional student population.
"I think that just says something about what the graduate students feel - at least a good part of the student body of UNM feels - about the situation with the administration," he said.
Fields said he wants ASUNM to work to represent the entire undergraduate student population to address issues like this.
"I encourage them to ask their constituency in whatever they do and (ensure) that it be representative of the entire student body and not certain segments of the student body," he said.
ASUNM tabled a proposed vote of confidence in the administration on Feb. 11.
ASUNM President-elect Monika Roberts said the no-confidence question is important, but it's unlikely to come up for a vote.
"We definitely know it is an issue," Roberts said. "But I don't necessarily think it's appropriate for us to take a stance. I think, again, it's something that we need to hear back from students, because we're here for the students."
Roberts said ASUNM will try to get more undergraduate student input by hosting forums during her tenure.
