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College of Arts and Sciences
Sam Akins
Freshman
Key points:
Bridge the gap between students and the SGA.
Remind students how to get in contact with senators.
Jonathan Benton
Sophomore
Key points:
Place more recycling bins in academic buildings and residence halls.
Require mandatory video recordings of lectures for all Arts and Sciences classes.
Introduce academic flowcharts for all majors in the college.
Maria Derisavi
Freshman
Key points:
Prioritize student safety on campus.
Install more water bottle filling stations on campus.
Samuel Estreicher
Freshman
Key points:
Improve daily life for students.
Hannah Ford
Freshman
Key points:
Implement a mentorship program for students to foster relationships with peers and alumni.
Strengthen student bonds on campus.
Olivia Frazier
Freshman
Key points:
Promote unity and inclusion.
Eyram Gbeddy
Freshman
Key points:
Promote equity, reform and accountability.
Taryn Geiger*
Sophomore
Key points:
Ensure every student voice is heard.
Mitchell Gilbert
Sophomore
Key points:
Increase diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.
Expand voter access in U.S. general elections.
Pass legislation combating hate against Jewish students on campus.
Sawyer Griffy
Sophomore
Key points:
Collect and manage SGA data.
Listen to the concerns of students.
Promote data-informed resolutions.
Margaret Jutze
Sophomore
Key points:
Implement ranked-choice voting to increase transparent, fair elections.
Increase accessibility in housing, athletics, campaign finance and other aspects of campus life.
Prioritize SGA participation in Women and Gender Resource Center Harbor training; Question, Persuade and Refer suicide prevention training; and NCBI Welcome Diversity Workshops.
Mitchell Lynn
Year unknown
Key points:
Provide menstrual products in bathrooms.
Increase transparency in SGA operations.
Pressure the University to acknowledge its history of racial injustice.
Kieghan Nangle
Freshman
Key points:
Improve campus transparency.
Promote an interconnected community.
Xzarria Peterson
Sophomore
Key points:
Represent campus as an SGA senator.
John Richardson*
Sophomore
Key points:
Continue to work on advising within Arts and Sciences.
Partner with Men Against Rape and Sexual Assault.
Make the University feel like a smaller community by championing students.
Claire Roberts
Freshman
Key points:
Enhance mental health services.
Promote mental health education.
Carter Sheldon
Sophomore
Key points:
Combat sexual assault.
Magnify marginalized voices.
Improve student involvement at athletic events.
Brian Szczotka
Sophomore
Key points:
Increase representation of ROTC and New College students.
Improve access to resources for organizations, tutoring and professional development experiences.
Tyler Tannehill
Junior
Key points:
Ensure substantial debate before voting.
Open the SGA to all students.
Increase counseling services and anti-drunk driving initiatives.
Eleanor Wiltanger
Year unknown
Key points:
Add a financial literacy course.
List New College majors in the UA catalog.
Implement composting and increase UA sustainability services.
College of Communication and Information Sciences
Jenna Berkower*
Sophomore
Key points:
Advocate for student safety.
Implement further student engagement with student organizations.
Victor Hagan
Sophomore
Key points:
Improve relationships between faculty and students.
Focus on mental health and bring awareness to on-campus health resources.
Kaitlyn MacDonald
Junior
Key points:
Promote diversity, equity and inclusion.
Advance livable wage for student workers.
Morgan Patrick
Freshman
Key points:
Gate all parking deck entrances.
Implement a mentorship program with Tuscaloosa schools.
Perform C&IS Qualtrics survey on Reese Phifer improvements.
Ally-Anna Outlaw
Freshman
Key points:
Implement better transfer credit communication.
Culverhouse College of Business
Thomas Ashton
Freshman
Key points:
Create a contact book for University resources and local restaurants.
Increase access to electrical outlets and Wi-Fi.
Create more student events on the Quad.
Nicholas Boyd
Freshman
Key points:
Make UA community members feel represented.
Improve student safety.
Athena Critides
Freshman
Key points:
Advocate for the student body.
Judson Fair
Freshman
Key points:
Promote innovation in the SGA.
John Foster
Freshman
Key points:
Create an immersive program for first- and second-year business students to increase knowledge about a student’s major.
Myles Gollop
Freshman
Key points:
Work with the Elections Board to ensure fair elections.
Work on problems with parking.
Hunter Howell
Freshman
Key points:
Make Thanksgiving a week-long break.
Reduce laundry costs in dorms.
Provide better opportunities for Culverhouse students to network with businesses.
John McLendon*
Sophomore
Key points:
Make positive contributions to the SGA.
CJ Pearson*
Sophomore
Key points:
Increase funding to mental health facilities.
Require all Greek houses, dorms and UA facilities to have access to Narcan.
Implement UA Day of Service to perform charitable acts throughout Tuscaloosa.
Broadcast away football games within Bryant-Denny Stadium.
Lexi Sims
Freshman
Key points:
Add a forum to help students voice opinions.
Lucas Weldon
Year unknown
Key points:
Extend the add/drop date.
Streamline basketball ticket process.
Increase freshman parking.
Tyler Zuspann
Freshman
Key points:
Introduce self-defense courses.
Put vending machines in Hewson Hall.
Put a traffic officer outside of the Student Center.
College of Education
Brad Day
Junior
Key points:
Advocate for student election reforms.
Promote free speech and student protection.
Facilitate a permanent return to pre-pandemic student life .
Seth Hudson
Sophomore
Key points:
Host pop-up community engagement events with senators and faculty.
Improve mental health resources.
Expand research and leadership opportunities to College of Education students.
Jacob Rohleder
Freshman
Key points:
Listen to student voices.
College of Engineering
Kade Boeneke
Sophomore
Key points:
Improve networking between engineering students.
Clay Bruce
Sophomore
Key points:
Promote software packages and rapid prototyping to students.
Improve study spaces in NERC, SERC and Rodgers library.
Clarify course plans for engineering majors.
Alexander East
Freshman
Key points:
Implement more business involvement, including demonstrations, showcases and networking opportunities.
Increase co-op opportunities, especially for niche majors.
Introduce weekly engineering workshops to learn about majors.
Sofia Estela
Sophomore
Key points:
Encourage involvement in the SGA.
Make it easier for students to voice concerns to the SGA.
Jacob Hoernlein
Freshman
Key points:
Fight against the Machine.
Avoid anonymously passed bills.
Increase proper debate for all bills.
Grant Ingram
Freshman
Key points:
Represent engineering students.
Ryan LaJoye
Sophomore
Key points:
Offer hybrid options for all classes to prevent overflow and missed classes.
Create a day off for mental well-being.
Standardize testing between courses.
Alex Petr
Sophomore
Key points:
Improve safety, inclusivity and mental health for all.
Kiley Price
Freshman
Key points:
Better represent on-campus students
Improve student life for engineering students.
Expand resources for professional development and the Career Center.
Jackson Rudder
Freshman
Key points:
Require professors to notify students of curriculum or scheduling changes.
Improve networking for engineering students.
Develop an online forum for students to voice concerns to senators.
Bryant Segars
Sophomore
Key points:
Make campus safer and more accessible.
Raise awareness on mental health.
William Calvin Wilbanks
Freshman
Key points:
Make the University a better and safer place to make friends and complete studies.
Graduate School
Jennifer Baggett*
Graduate student
Key points:
Promote knowledge and academic and social opportunities.
Noel Keeney
Doctoral candidate
Key points:
Advocate for equality and higher education access.
Increase wages and representation for graduate students.
Tolulope Kolapo
Year unknown
Key points:
Promote diversity, equity and inclusion.
Increase awareness of resources available.
Increase recommendations to aid equitable representation and provide opportunity for “female emancipation and growth.”
Daniel Leon
Doctoral candidate
Key points:
Implement higher GTA stipend.
Streamline process of graduate housing.
Jessica Lopez
Doctoral candidate
Key points:
Create a forum for graduate students to voice input and concerns.
Rebecca-Rose Lutonsky*
Doctoral candidate
Key points:
Increase GTA and GRA stipends.
Implement clearer and simpler residency requirements.
Create a forum for graduate students to voice concerns.
Justin McCleskey
Graduate student
Key points:
Increase SGA transparency.
Increase graduate student representation.
Viprav Raju
Doctoral candidate
Key points:
Improve graduate student access to student services like University Recreation, parking and meal plans.
Create a separate football playoff ticket pool for graduate students.
Implement paper and stationery allowances.
Promote diversity and inclusion for graduate students and in campuswide organizations.
Carter Sink
Graduate student
Key points:
Increase graduate student engagement with the SGA.
Emilia Stuart
Graduate student
Key points:
Add a program for graduate students to learn about electives and leadership opportunities related to their interests.
Form a mentor opportunity for students returning to the University as grad students to help first-time UA grad students feel at home.
Justin Sweeney
Graduate student
Key points:
Increase student financial compensation and arts funding.
Improve on-campus student life.
Caleb Williams
Graduate student
Key points:
Allow accelerated master’s program students to participate in graduate school elections.
College of Human and Environmental Sciences
Karina Collins
Freshman
Key points:
Implement an undergraduate mentorship program to bridge the gap between undergraduate and postgraduate education.
Implement more dining options for those with dietary restrictions.
Hire more faculty and staff from HBCUs, Hispanic-serving institutions and Asian American and Native American/Pacific Islander-serving institutions.
Emma Fraley
Freshman
Key points:
Develop a cross-training program with Culverhouse and C&IS to prepare HES students for self-employment.
Build a network of graduates willing to mentor or apprentice current students in similar majors.
Jolie Golden
Freshman
Key points:
Create a place for CHES students to voice concerns to senators.
Make course-required materials like textiles available at the SUPe Store.
Andrea Kugler
Junior
Key points:
Improve alcohol and drug prevention programming for new students.
Raise awareness of mental health services in the UA and Tuscaloosa communities.
College of Nursing
Kaleigh Shaw
Year unknown
Key points:
Create more hands-on opportunities for lower-division nursing students.
Sarah Kate Smalley
Freshman
Key points:
Be an advocate for positive change.
Increase student involvement and community service.
School of Social Work
Tori Atwater
Freshman
Key points:
Raise money for students who cannot afford counseling services.
Increase safety on campus.
Implement virtual tours of Little Hall.
Lauren Kirk
Junior
Key points:
Mandate education and cultural awareness of UA history.
Work with field education coordinators to make the field placement process more collaborative.
Increase communication between social work students in the same cohort.
Sarah Pierce
Junior
Key points:
Advance education and awareness of mental health and sexual assault.
Waive $50 background check and $15 therapy session fees.
Elizabeth Prophet
Sophomore
Key points:
Increase transparency in the SGA, implementing fair election and campaign policies.
Serve equity using the NASW Code of Ethics in decision-making and ensuring students of all backgrounds are heard.
Promote self-care plans and their sustainability.
School of Law
John Dawson
Law student
Key points:
Represent the law school in the SGA.
Promote legislation that improves the law school’s national ranking.