David Cohen, the current speaker of the Treasury, was chosen to be the Student Union vice president of administration for the coming semester. He will be sworn in on Nov. 21.

Cohen will replace incumbent Kirsten Miller because she will study abroad in the spring.

The vice president of administration is the most internally oriented of the executive positions. Its holder is in charge of making sure that operations within SU run smoothly.

“I think of the position as the person who is the fixer, and they’re making sure that everything is going smoothly internally,” Cohen said. “It’s making sure that people are happy and that people are working hard for good causes so that SU can be functioning well externally.”

Cohen, a senior, has been involved with SU since his freshman year. Last year, Cohen was the vice president of finance of the executive council. His freshman and sophomore years, he was a Treasury representative and served as a member and then the chair of the Budget Committee.

As the speaker of the Treasury, Cohen has had to attend every SU Senate meeting.

“Based on the three-and-a-half years of experience, I feel like I have a lot of knowledge in SU,” Cohen said.

Cohen wants to work to hire a new technology coordinator and fix constitutional and statutory inconsistencies that he says can be stifling at times.

“When SU really gets stifled is when we’re caught up in internal matters that don’t matter to other students, so I’m there as a stopgap,” Cohen said.

Cohen is a double major in political science and education and a minor in Chinese.