MY EXPERIENCE
Key Qualities that define me – I value discipline, time management, diplomacy, and a sense of responsibility. I have not only had a lot of experience on collaborative committees, but also in leadership positions. I have also served as your elected DSG Senator for Academic Affairs for two years, your DSG Attorney General, a Board of Elections member, and as a DSG representative on the SOFC Choosing Committee.
DSG Experience:
As an elected senator in DSG, I have spent a lot of time working with Academic Affairs to complete projects aimed at making academic life at Duke more reflective of students’ desires and also playing a role in major decisions made by the entire DSG Senate by being a voting member of the senate. As a senator on the Academic Affairs committee, I have also spent a lot of my time at Duke talking to administration, faculty, and students to most efficiently implement new ideas into the student body.
DSG Projects:
Library Hours – This year, I have been working on trying to make library hours appropriately match the needs of students. Through gathering data on the views of students and presenting it to the library staff, I have planned a pilot with altered weekend hours!
Faculty Outings– During my freshman year I worked on increasing the frequency of faculty outings from just O-week to throughout the year. These outings would also be open to upperclassmen to promote faculty-student interactions as well as increased communication between freshmen and the other classes.
Duke Honor Code– During my second semester at Duke, I started working on a project focused on a stricter implementation of the honor code and am working with Honor Council to implement more streamlined ways of standardizing test-taking procedures and minimizing out-of-class cheating. I also hope to reach out to professors and urge the addition of specific honor code violations and rules in their course syllabi. Collaborating with Honor Council resulted in the push for following the community standard during finals season with free thermoses and Vondy coffee! I look forward to a lot more work between Academic Affairs and Honor Council to keep improving the integrity culture on campus and prevent cheating at its roots.
Blackout Dates– I was also on the project of urging professors to follow blackout dates, days after long breaks for which students would not be allowed to have exams because of unavoidable travel conflicts.
Leadership In DSG:
Beyond being elected as your Academic Affairs senator, I have also been a voting member of the entire DSG Senate and was appointed as the DSG Representative on the Bass Connections Advisory Council. As your attorney general, I oversaw the Presidential/EVP Elections and was in charge of the Board of Elections. Before this, I served on the Board of Elections for the Fall Senator and Young Trustee elections, working on increasing voter turnout (successfully!!). I was also part of the SOFC interview process for this year’s newest members- a very helpful experience in understanding yet another facet of DSG.