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Now finally in office, Womack and Carter anticipate their role in the future of KU
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Savanna Smith/KANSAN Mattie Carter and Mady Womack prepare to take over as student body vice president and president, respectively.
“OK... I can finally get to work. This is for real now.”
Savanna Smith/KANSAN and president, respectively
These were the words Student Body President Mady Womack said as she sat and relaxed during her first day in office following joint senate.
Both Womack and Student Body vice president Mattie Carter have been planning for their first day, as well as the year to follow since they launched their campaign on Feb. 7.
"It's exciting. Even just getting to now sit at the front of the chambers facing out is exciting," Carter said. "I'm ready to work this summer."
The work she'll be doing most this summer, Carter said, is rewriting Student Senate Rules and Regulations (SSRR). According to both Carter and Womack, changes to SSRR are done by the vice president and chief of staff. However, due to a delay in certifying election results, executive positions like chief of staff won't be chosen until senate's special session on May 3.
Both rulings from the Student Senate Court of Appeals hearings, as well as a "symbolic" tie vote from the Elections Commission in their last violation hearing of the elections, provided the sentiment that SSRR changes may indeed be necessary, with Womack calling SSRR a "complete disaster."
More than that, Carter said, changes to rules are needed to complete the platforms the pair hopes to get started on as early as this summer.
"I think the platforms we ran on are probably the things we're going to hit the ground running with most," Carter said. "A lot of the things we want to get accomplished this year involve rules and regulations changes, so I'll get started on that this summer."
According to Carter, these are things like the freshman internship program, which would allow University freshmen to shadow and train with student senators. One of the platforms Womack said she is most eager to get started on is the sexual assault reporting application Project Callisto.
"I'm most excited for kind of figuring out what exactly it's going to look like to reform the reporting process for sexual assault," Womack said.
Bringing platforms like the internship program and Project Callisto to fruition may be one of their most important jobs. But there may be one thing, Womaek said, that will prove even harder — uniting 65 senators who originate from four different coalitions.
"The hardest thing we're going to face is getting everybody on the same page," Womack said. "Your job after the election is to dissolve your coalition and know it doesn't really matter anymore, but in practice, it takes a little more of making people more comfortable and reaching out."
Having hard discussions and making compromises with people who once sat opposite them
on debate stages is something that both Womack and Carter say they're prepared for. It's these discussions, Carter said, that will bring both her and Womack's plans to life.
"I'm looking forward to being able to make a difference on this campus. That's kind of why I wanted to do this," Carter said. "There's a lot of things I feel really passionate about and I want to be able to be the one to see them through."
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merse students into the University and help them discover student resources that they may not have known without being in the program, according to the website. Participants will be exposed to resources in the summer program, then have opportunities to continue using those resources through workshops and events in the following years.
Burns-Wallace said this
program is building off of programs that are already available at the University.
"The main aspects of the program, if you think about it, are a lot of the pieces that we have around the institution already," Burns-Wallace said. "Much of what they will be doing, engaged with, supported with, are pre-existing offices and structures."
First-generation college student Marissa Bernal, a junior from Shawnee, said she participated in a program
like this at the University of Missouri while she was in high school. She thinks that the program will be a positive initiative at the University.
"Having this be available to students would be really beneficial to first-generation college students," she said. "I was really going into the whole process [attending a university] kind of blind-sided."
For incoming freshmen to the University, especially
those who are a first-generation college students, Bernal advises them to hold off on working for year and try to get involved in many activities and opportunities.
"I always say that, at a place like KU, we have so many amazing resources for students," Burns-Wallace said.
The priority deadline for the program has already passed for those wishing to apply to be a part of the program for this year. Those
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1996. He said that being innovative is important for a new dean.
"I think that that's really important as a dean especially in today's educational arena that you really need to be thinking ahead, whether it be two, three, five, 10 years and try to figure out what's coming in the future for students as well as for the school and then setting the school up for what's coming before it happens," Church said.
Church also said that if he got the position, he would want to reach out to the University community and promote transparency and connection within the community.
"I'm really interested in the idea that they have a transformative educational experience for students that includes diversity, equity and inclusion, so it's just kind of this transformative experience that students have across the four
years that they're at KU, as well as the transformation that they should have while they're at the School of Social Welfare," Church said.
DAPHNE CAINE
"The KU School of Social Welfare is a very old and established school of social welfare. It has a very positive and strong national reputation, and the faculty that are there are just outstanding," Caine said. "I was really attracted to the quality of the program at KU."
Caine, who is the chair of the department of social work in the School of Applied Sciences at the University of Mississippi, said that she was attracted to the dean position at the University because of its national reputation.
Caine said that her experience in academic administration over the past six years would make her a strong candidate for the position.
"Since I have served as a dean previously I have had the opportunity of seeing the bird's-eye view, sort of the grand picture overseeing an entire school of social work from the budgeting to the staffing to the faculty teaching in classrooms to curriculum so I think with that experience and moving from an experience where I have served as a dean, I might be able to move into that position at KU a little bit easier," Caine said.
Kapp has been the interim dean of the School of Social Welfare since March 1, 2016, after Paul Smokowski resigned. He is the only candidate from the University.
Kapp also said during his presentation that he hopes to increase diversity, equity and inclusion within the school by partnering with other groups on campus and looking into policy changes to retain and recruit students and faculty.
STEPHEN KAPP
keeping things moving forward."
"I'm really interested in staying at KU. I'm not interested in taking myself out on the market," Kapp said during his presentation. "I'm very interested in the school, its survival and
"Our diversity, equity and inclusion group is looking at, from a policy perspective, looking at what are our practices, what are our policies and what kind of supports do we have." Kapp said. "In addition to that, [Associate Provost for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Jennifer] Hamer's office has scholars throughout campus that are also taking on these issues so we have all of these different resources that we can bring together to bare for us to put together a long term plan for this school so we have a plan that we can look at every year that can hold us accountable."
CORRECTIONS
In the April 27 issue of the Kansan, due to an editing error, the caption was not included on a photo on page 2. The caption should have read, "Trinity Carpenter, social welfare senator, speaks at the Finance Committee meeting about the fee bill with a group who were working to pass the bill."
In the same issue, an article about student artist Rose Wolf on page 5 incorrectly stated that the piece "Herd Immunity" is on display at the Spencer Museum of Art. It is not.
On page 8, the captions for two photos of Malika and Nashia Baker were transposed.
The Kansan sincerly apologizes for these errors.
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