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(Thr Daily LUir Hrrl Hopefuls look to address advising Seek to provide student input BY BRIAN AUSTIN STAFF WRITER Although the three student body president candidates echoed simi lar themes for improving academic advising, each platform has subtle differences. Campaign proposals range across a gamut of suggestions, from group and study abroad peer advis ing to student assistance in finding and hiring faculty. “I think for advising to be effi cient and effective, you need to have a diversity of systems for a diversity of needs,; candidate J.J. Raynor said. Raynors goals center around providing further programs for stu dents. which try to address more individualized needs. Academic Advising Associate Dean Carolyn Cannon said that the student body president does not have any official power to implement changes or programs in advising. But Cannon said the advising department takes student input, particularly that of the student body president, into consider ation. Cannon said that the student body president should facilitate student feedback to influence advising programs. Previously, student government has conducted surveys in collabo ration with advising and the Office of Institutional Research. She also believes it is impor tant for candidates to discuss their plans with advisers and advising administrators while creating their campaign promises. Academic advising is currently under review by the Board of Thistees committee on academic advising. Kristin Hill has a slightly differ ent focus. Her proposals for advising would require extended coordi nation among academic depart ments, advising and administra tion. She stressed student access to information and campaigned on increasing the availability of infor mation on courses, such as online course syllabi. Hill said she also is UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS flbfOfld fig “ i fit INTERNSHIP PROGRAMS All INTERNSHIP PLACEMENTS ARE: Dublin Internship Program • Guaranteed for each student London Internship Program • Personalized for each student Los Angeles Internship Program • Project-based/academically directed Madrid Internship Program . Paris Internship Program COMMON PROGRAM FEATURES Sydney Internship Program • Open to all majors Washington, D.C. Internship Program • Housing provided * Organized excursions and activities / Application Deadline: March 1,2008 • Financial aid available / mfi live intern explore www.bu.edu/abroad Kristin Hill Logan Liles J.J. Raynor Peer Advising > Promote peer advising >■ Expand and refine Eve ► Implement peer advising for undergraduate research. Carson's administration's for research. ► Implement group advising program. > Carson advising. administration's peer advising program. Electronic > focus on access to j * Not addressed in I ► Start electronic instant Advising piatfonT n * ssa * n9 with advisers evaluations and syllabi. * Starl live ***** chats ► Make listservs for every academic departrtient. Career 1 ► create an academic ► Revise C-TOPS and T-SOP ► create an indeoendent Planning <*•—• “**-*"9 ► Identify and enhance program, undergraduate research opportunities. Study Abroad ► Work to make the ► Accelerate transfer of ► Create peer advising process of credit transfers credits by working with program for study abroad, more efficient. registrar's office. i Registrar's *" Work to allow graduating ► Remove restrictions of ► Work with University Office Issues sen ’ ors to re 9‘ ster before majors from registration. Registrar Alice Poehls to juniors with senior stand- > Trans)ate incorporate Enterprise 9 and post-2006 curriculums. Resource Planning into ► Purge classes that have advism 9 not been offered in four semesters. ► Make priority registration available to all students. ► Oppose the Achievement Index. See Tuesday's paper for two pages of candidate profiles interested in the design stages of the enterprise resource planning project that aims to transform the University’s online advising sys tems. “Student input and student feedback throughout that process are vital," Hill said. Four of her core staff members also serve on the student ERP advi sory group, she said. Logan Liles focused instead on helping students understand the issues involved in advising, empha sizing the need for student voices STUDENT ELECTIONS 2008 in reforming advising. “We want it to be something where we have a comprehensive sort of advising because we're spending a lot of resources on advising," he said. “We want the student to have somewhere to go at every turn." Liles conceded that an adviser's job is not always making every stu dent happy and that some things students want can’t be done. He echoed Hill, saying that advising is essential for future planning. His platform emphasizes improving the system that is already in place and introduces fewer new advising programs than the other candidates. All three of the candidates show a similar resolve for delivering answers to the complex problems faced by advising. “At the end of the day, if solu tions don’t work for students, they don’t work," Raynor said. Contact the University Editor at Utesk@Wic.edu. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2008 Impact of forum choices is unclear BY MEGHAN E. WOODS STAFF WRITER Long before student votes will be tallied, student groups have already cast their votes for who the next stu dent body president should be. Aside from dormstorming, cam paign signs and A-frames, endorse ments have become a staple of UNCs election season, with each group hoping its endorsement will influ ence the outcome of the election. Since the beginning of campaign ing, at least 10 student groups have hosted forums to address the candi dates' platforms and agendas. Logan Liles has five endorse ments from the forums, Kristin Hill has four and J.J. Raynor has two. Raynor lias received endorse ments from several other groups that haven’t held forums. Liles said he thinks endorse ments are beneficial because they provide reassurance. “They let us know that all parts are buying into the messages that we have," he said. “When it actually comes to getting votes, they help a lot." Hill said that it's the ability to explain her agenda that make endorsements valuable. "The best thing is being able to go to forums and talk about your platform to a group of people who are curious about exactly that," she said. “Forums are more focused on platforms and getting to know the candidate." But Raynor, who received her first endorsement Thursday, said personal endorsements are just as important as group endorsements. “It's been such a personal cam paign. and it's so much more impor tant to talk to people," she said. At each forum, the candidates discussed their platforms and field ed questions from the audience. “They were all really informed about campus policies." said Erica Rafferty, president of the Out-of- State Student Association. Although endorsements are part of campaigning, there is not a clear correlation between the number of endorsements and winning office. In 2005 candidate Tom Jensen garnered the most endorsements with six but lost the race. But in last year's student elections. Eve Carson had the most and won the election. Many group leaders said that this Endorsements Kristin Hill: 4 Di-Phi Young Democrats College RepiAlicans Bounce Logan Liles: 5 Out-of-State Student Association Black Student Movement Chispa Residence Hall Association Order of the Bell Tower JJ.Raynor S GLBTSA 4 GPSF Chips Environmental groups Blue & White magazine year it was often one single plat form point that gave one candidatc the edge over another. Rafferty said Liles' ideas about tuition predictabil ity led OSSA to endorse him. “We really liked his approach to fighting tuition increases." she said. "We felt that it was something we could get in line with." Charissa Lloyd, chairwoman of the College Republicans, said the group endorsed Hill for her policies on campus waste management. “It's important that we have a student body president that's con cerned about that," she said. But UNC’s Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies members said their endorsement was based on more than just candidate platforms. “We wanted to pick a person that we thought Is best for the University." said Andrew Pham, president of Di-Phi. adding that the group had to vote several times before Hill emerged the winner. “It really came to the question of, 'What does this campus need at this time?” Although the candidates said they are gratefril for their endorsements, some still question how endorse ments affect students. “I don't think (students) pay atten tion to them at all." Hill said. Liles said different factors influ ence students' attention to endorse ments. “I think they're more inter ested if they're in an organization that gives an endorsement" Contact the University Editor at udesk (a) unc.edu. 7
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