2014 Fall Special Election Candidates’ Forum Minutes

Archivist note: Originally published on the Elections WordPress site. Nov 3, 2014 @ 09:21, “Special Election Candidates’ Forum Minutes”

Video Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfUGhBlh3gw

Rhea Manglani ’17: What relevant experience do you bring to this position?

ND ‘17: Current career peer, and thats my most relevant experience working directly with the cpd. I’m working right now with the health center advisory board and I’ve worked before mentoring students. Outreach to students would be focus.

Charlie Bruce ’16: Who do you see as specific people who are your constituents, and who do you report to?

ND ‘17: I’d be representing both the CPD and the student body, which makes it complicated. Not just what the CPD wants students to know, but also what the students want from the CPD

Charlie Bruce ’16: What plans do you have for the position?

ND ‘17: Work with diversity when applying for jobs. Work with CDAs for dorm teas about CPD. Make it less scary. It’s not just for seniors.

Shirah Kraus ’18: How would you reach out to students who aren’t seniors (like first years!) to get them to use the CPD?

ND ‘17: I think I’d start with working with the class presidents of the freshmen class and the sophomore class and coordinate teas. Also dorm teas. Students might be  career peers in own space, not in the CPD office. CPD integrated with school, not separate.

Charlie Bruce ’16: Why do you want to run for this position?

ND ‘17: As a Career Peer, seen a lot of communication problems between CPD and students: students don’t know how to connect with career counselors or what the CPD does.

Melanie Bahti ’16: What’s something you’ve learned about the CPD that students don’t know that you’d like to convey to the student body?

ND ‘17: The CPD is not just for seniors. A lot of advantages for finding a way you do enjoy, trained to have conversations for choosing majors, jobs, internships, writing and emails.

Charlie Bruce ’16: If you were to write the SGA sign-in ‘fun question’, what would it be?

ND ‘17: This is a really complicated question to ask, I feel really pressured right now. I don’t know. This is the hardest thing for me to come up with… If you could be any type of squash, what would you be?