Because FAA and Ops are both currently unopposed, I decided to include them in a single post.
The Director of Faculty and Administrative Affairs' job includes attending the Faculty Senate, the Graduate and Professional Student Senate, and working on any/all issues that come up during the year that involve how students relate with the administration or the faculty.
The Director of Operations is one of the most internally focused position in ASUW. Ops' job can often be seen as the lawyer of ASUW. They chair the judicial committee and supervise the Office of Government Relations. They also serve as the parliamentarian for the Board of Directors.
Candidates: FAA: Jed Bradley (One Campus), Ops: Sarah Round (One Campus)
Strengths: Jed is a very strong candidate for FAA due to his time this year as the Chair of the ASUW Student Senate. His time as Chair has required him to interact with the GPSS and the Faculty Senate this year, and he has been on the front end of discussion on all of the issues that came up in ASUW this year.
Sarah's strengths also come from her time in Senate, but she was the Vice Chair, whose duties are often analogous to those of the Director of Operations' duties. She was well prepared for the jobs she will be expected to do as Ops. As Vice Chair, she served as the parliamentarian of Senate and took the issues Senate considered to the Board of Directors and argued for the opinion produced by Senate.
Weaknesses: Sarah and Jed both have one glaring weakness: they are running unopposed. The fact that they are running without opposition means that it will be difficult to get people interested in voting for them. I don't see any real weakness in either of them, as candidates for their position, which could be part of the reason for the dearth of opposition.
The funny thing is, these two may be un-opposed, but there the only two that I am guaranteed to vote for and will announce that fact now.
ReplyDeleteHaving been on Judicial with Sarah, and with her year as Vice-Chair, she's letter perfect for the job she's running for. She's a cuter new-generation version of Karl Smith.
There is far less overlap between Jed's background and current job to the one he's running for, but the lad is smart, hardworking, and diligent, and has been interested in the role for two years, and has done a lot of the background and legwork necessary to prepare for the job.