Howard Elections Cheat Sheet
The Elections Cheat Sheet is merely a helpful guide to help inform students on election candidates. We encourage all students to seek out the student leaders for more information and to vote on March 6, 2008.
*Only the candidates available for interview were included in the cheat sheet and photo shoot
HUSA President & Vice President Candidates
Nicholas Owen & Kellen Moore
HUSA President & Vice President
Slogan
Taking it back: Changing the reality of Howard’s future
Platform in a Few Words
Taking ownership in what is yours, Howard University
What are the issues?
- No unity or effective communication between the student body & HUSA
- Student leader accountability
- Faculty/Administrators/Staff accountability
- Decentralized student advocacy leaders
- Students don’t understand HUSA structure
- Going green
- Wireless on campus
- Affordability
- International and Caribbean student disconnect with Howard University
What specific policies, programs, etc do you plan to implement?
- I Get Money Initiative (financial aid)
- Reestablish united student assembly
Previous Experience/Political Accomplishments
Nicholas Owen: President of School of Communications Student Council , Chairman of Hilltop Policy Board
Kellen Moore: HUSA Student Advocacy Chair, UGSA Rep, COAS Freshman Class President 06-07
Christopher Caldwell & Kimberly Jones
HUSA President & Vice President
Slogan
Fighting for your future, fighting for your legacy, fighting for Howard
Platform in a Few Words
- Increasing the quality of living for students
- More student body and student leader dialogue
- More community involvement
- Supporting student endeavors
What are the issues?
- Poor communication between the student body and the university
- Lack of representation for students facing expulsion or administrative problems
What specific policies, programs, etc do you plan to implement?
- Interactive Chat room
- Student Government Internship Program
- Into The Streets Community Service Project
- Howard Newell Memorial Scholarship Program
- Student Rights Attorney
Previous Experience/Political Accomplishments
Christopher Caldwell: Deputy Director of Student Organizations for HUSA, UGSA Rep, Minister of External Affairs for Gentlemen’s Scholar’s Program
Kimberly Jones: Miss School of Business 06-07, Co-Chair of Campus Pals Fundraising Committee
Abimbola George & Tiffany Bright
HUSA President & Vice President
Slogan
“Breakthrough; Innovation on the horizon”
Platform in a few words
4 Pilars: Student Advocacy, Technology, Green Peace, & Student Life.
What are the issues?
- Howard is not a wireless campus
- Lack of regard for environment
- Communication between organizations
- Safety
- Shuttle Service
What specific policies, programs, etc do you plan to implement?
- Establish a commission on student rights that will have each University administration post a student bill of rights in each academic building
- Hold a student government fair during Freshman Orientation Week so student council members and organizations can greet students.
- Want to advocate Howard becoming a wireless campus
- Work with residence life and the DC government to place “Recycling Stations” in every dormitory and academic building
- Establishing communications systems and policies that allow all student organizations to work together.
- Work closely with the school Police Department to ensure safety on the campus
- Establishing a commission with the office of Parking and Shuttle services to and student leaders to address shuttle services and provide upgrades.
- Keep it Real or Sound off forums: Solicit the opinions and views of the student body.
Previous Experience/Political Accomplishments?
Abimbola: Former HUSA Volunteer, Director of College of Arts and Sciences Student Council, and President of College of Arts and Sciences.
Tiffany Bright: Former HUSA Volunteer, Former HUSA Office Assistant, Volunteer Coordinator, HUSA Executive Secretary, and Director of Administration
Darrion Woods & Stefan Thompson
HUSA President & Vice President
Slogan
“The New Deal: Recovery Relief Reform.”
Platform in a few words
“When we say relief, we say relief to students because so many students have a negative stigma about HUSA, that we just collect checks and waste money. Recovery is bringing HUSA back to the position that it should be, and the position that we once lost. Reform is that we have to change a lot of things about the HUSA government, such as the structure and flow.”
What are the issues?
- Inconvenience of the HUSA Office for students
- Academic Integrity
- Lax organizational funding
- Housing
What specific policies, programs, etc do you plan to implement?
- Extending HUSA office hours to be more convenient for students.
- Make sure certain organizations receive their funding on time
- Increase the Howard male population
- Off Campus Public Relations Act: to help students scout off campus housing
- Make sure teachers get their book adoptions in on-time to lessen the price of textbooks at the Bookstore.
- Howard Man Legacy Act: To personally recruit young men to come out to Howard University.
- Better academic integrity
- Promotion of Scholarships and Internships
- Open forums for students to speak out
- Inspection of student services
- Can promise that everything besides the Off-Campus Housing can happen in the spring
Previous Experience/Political Accomplishments?
Darrion: HUSA Student Services Coordinator, was Promoted to Special Assistant to the HUSA President, and President of The Towers
Stefan: Slowe Hall President, Member of the Commission of Student Affairs, Member of the Residence Hall Ad Hall Committee, Member of Man of Strength
Undergraduate Trustee Candidates
Edward Williams
Undergrad Trustee
Slogan
Validation: Removing the hold off of Howard’s future
Platform in a Few Words
Increasing dialogue with students in order to better bridge the gap between the Board of Trustees and the student body
What are the issues?
- Finding a new president
- Maintenance and modernization of campus
- Lack of students involved in research projects
What specific policies, programs, etc do you plan to implement?
- Undergraduate Trustee Report
- Reestablish Undergraduate Trustee Committee
- Undergraduate Trustee Website
Previous Experience/Political Accomplishments
Mr. School of Busines
CPNAS Candidates
Ashley Chanel Jones
Vice President
Slogan
APPEAL; Aspiring to Promote Professionalism, Energy, Activity and Leadership
Platform in a few words
- Professionalism: A lot of the students said they weren’t prepared from the undergraduate environment to the professional environment
- Energy: Pumping up our school
- Activity: I want to bring back involvement in our school, we currently have internal problems and I feel that we need to confront them head on, specifically in our nursing department
- Leadership: the energy and activity are going to open up more opportunity for students to get involved
What specific policies, programs, etc do you plan to implement?
- Graduate school forum much like the College of Arts and Sciences
Previous Experience
UGSA Rep for CPNAS, Chairwoman of Finance Committee, Community Service Director
COAS Candidates
Bryan Smart & Ashley Williams
President and Vice President
Slogan
“Stronger: Strengthening the College of Arts and Sciences through academics, advocacy, accountability, and community advancement.”
What are the issues?
- Do not have proper counseling of advising
- The structure of the COAS
- Organizational Funding
What specific policies, programs, etc do you plan to implement?
- Host fairs and forums with post graduation initiatives for Students to strengthen their knowledge of life after Howard
- Mentor/Mentee Program
- Work with the Dean of COAS to make him more student accessible
- Department chair town hall meetings
- Bridge the gap between COAS organizations and students
- A Day in the life of a College Arts and Sciences Student: Have high school students shadow current students to get a feel for the Howard experience.
- Student Appreciation Days
- Have fun! Have a gala in the spring and field day
Previous Experience:
Bryan Smart: UGSA Grievance Director
Nnamdi Anozie & Imoni Hampton
President & Vice President COAS
Slogan
Building Blocks: Establishing the foundation for the flagship of the future.
Platform in a Few Words
- Building upon what is already established and preparing for the future
- Career Development, Accountability, Student Life and Council Visibility
What are the issues?
- Lack of connection between Fine Arts and Arts & Sciences
- Aesthetics of the classroom
- Relations between student body and faculty
- Community outreach
- What specific policies, programs, etc do you plan to implement?
- Score cards to grade faculty
- Reestablish ambassadors and reps of Fine Arts/division committees
- Bison Inspire – (high school outreach/tutoring initiative)
Previous Experience/Political Accomplishments
Imoni: Mentor-Mentee Coordinator
Nnamdi: UGSA PR Director/UGSA Rep and Mr. COAS 07-08
School of Education Candidates
Keisha Blount & Jenelle Diljohn
School of Education Executive President & Vice President
Slogan
“Step Up; Sustaining tradition through enthusiasm and progression while uplifting the population.”
Platform in a few words
- Promote our history
- Learn more about our history, because a lot of it was lost.
- Get our students excited about our student council through public relations
- Trying to put on some events that will be helpful and informative
What specific policies, programs, etc do you plan to implement?
- Promote and learn more about the school’s history
- Get students more excited about student council through Public Relations
- State of The Black Student: A program designed to cover different issues concerning education majors, human development majors, and blacks in general.
School of Business Candidates
Asia Smith and Travis Sherman
President and Vice President
Slogan
“Back to the Basics”
Platform in a few words
- Loyalty to our students
- Benefiting our students
- Giving them the opportunity to reach out to the community
What are the issues?
What specific policies, programs, etc do you plan to implement?
- Want to advise banquets and talk to students on a regular basis
- Plan on working with the organizations that already have tutorial sessions, and help them by using counter resources, publicizing the event, pulling professors in, and making sure that students understand the consequences of cheating.
- Plan on creating a scholarship program for a member of the freshman, sophomore, and junior class.
- Seniors will receive a cash prize through a competition at the end of the year.
- Plan on having a gala where alumni, students, and faculty come in support of the school of business
- Reaching Out: A year-long mentorship program with high schools where they put on workshops once a month
Previous Experience:
Asia: Team leader, Associate Advisor to the Executive Board
Travis: Sophomore class president for the School of Business
Calvin Simmons & Korene Jones
Executive President of The School of Business Student Council
Slogan
“Firm, focusing on students, improving communication, reaching out and moving forward.”
Platform in a few words
- Create an environment of excellence for the school of business.
- Improve student advocacy
- Improve communication amongst students and administrators
- Move forward and have a positive impact on the new students of the school of business as well as the D.C. community
What are the issues?
- Reaccreditation, which has recently caused a downturn in our academic integrity
- Open up lines of communication between the administrators and the students
What specific policies, programs, etc do you plan to implement?
- D.C. Literacy Initiative: A program that donates up to 1500 books to a D.C. public school to improve its library
Previous Experience
Student Rights Coordinator for The Howard University Student Association, and Events Committee Chairman for The Undergraduate Student Council.
SCOM Candidates
Andrew Jones
Executive President of The School of Communications
Slogan
“Rise: Resounding inspiration of Students in Excellence.”
Platform in a few words
- Increasing the academic prestige
- Increasing the prestige and the pride that the students in the school of communications have for themselves and in their own school
What are the issues?
- Increasing the relationship between students and alumni
- Increasing accountability of the Student Council
- Increasing the communication amongst students
What specific policies, programs, etc do you plan to implement?
- College fair for local D.C. High Schools to inspire a collegiate level of thinking, and help make them feel more welcome and involved with the Howard Community
- Mid-Atlantic Pre-Law Conference
- AIDS Week
Previous Experience: School of Communications Student Council
Kimberly Williams
UGSA representative for the School of Communications
Platform in a few words
“I don’t have a platform. I feel that if you do your job then everything else will come. I don’t think everything has to have a slogan, everything has to have a name just do your job, do what’s right and everything will follow through.”
What are the issues?
- Feel people don’t understand the purpose of UGSA, which is to bring all the schools and classes together
What specific policies, programs, etc do you plan to implement?
- Wants to make a program that can bring current Howard students with former Howard students to network
- Wants to bridge the overall gap between Howard Students
Previous experience/Political Accomplishments: School of Communications Vice President, UGSA Representative for School of Communications.
Edward Hill & Dorien Archie
UGSA Representative for The College of Arts and Sciences & School of Communications
Platform in a few words
“Unity, building on a rich legacy for a successful future.”
What are the issues?
- Implementing new interactive programs for incoming freshman
- Bridging the division between some of the undergraduate students within the different college and schools.
- Trying to reach out to students letting them know what the mission of Howard University is, what their obligations are when they graduate as a student at Howard University
- Increase student advocacy
What specific policies, programs, etc do you plan to implement?
- More interactive programs for freshman focusing more so on education; for example resume building and essay writing.
Previous Experience: Sophomore class representative for the College of Arts and Sciences
Nicole Austin
UGSA Representative for the School of Communications
Slogan
“No more empty promises and creating false hope”
Platform in a few words
- Want to implement programs to bring all the schools together
- Trying to fix the lack of communication within the school
What are the issues?
- Lack of communication between the schools
- Lack of programs for transfer students
What specific policies, programs, etc do you plan to implement?
- A program for transfer students similar to those made for incoming freshman.
Ashley Tannehill
UGSA Representative for the School of Communications
Slogan
“I am L.E.G.E.N.D.”
Platform in a few words:
- Listening to Students
- Enriching our Bond
- Giving Back to Students
- Exploring New Possibilities
- Nurturing the Current UGSA
- Discovering Potential
What are the issues?
- Feels state of UGSA isn’t very focused on legislation; wants to put the focus back on students through programming and to increase communication
- Improve publicity of the general assembly meetings
- Increase communication with the students
- Higher levels of student awareness and student participation
What specific policies, programs, etc do you plan to implement?
- Faculty & Staff Appreciation Banquet: An awards ceremony that would acknowledge outstanding faculty and staff followed by a networking reception to insure mutual relationships.
- Taste & Talk: A more informal type of Town Hall meeting with food so students will feel more comfortable discussing the issues.
CEACS Student Council Candidates
Rhett James
College of Engineering, Architecture & Computer Sciences Executive Student Association Representative
Platform in a few words:
“Synergy: Working together resulting in something greater than individual effects of capabilities.”
What are the issues?
- Construction
- Lack of resources
What specific policies, programs, etc do you plan to implement?
- Wants to continue the community outreach program-go out to certain high schools and encourage them to pursue higher education.
- Having more trips for the Architecture majors.
Lucky Adike
College of Engineer, Architecture and COmputer Sciences Executive President
Slogan
“Illumination”
Platform in a few words:
- Bring everyone together as a whole
- Communal Learning
What are the issues?
- Division in the Student Body
What specific policies, programs, etc do you plan to implement?
- Consolidation of freshman retention
- Create a virtual library in which students can exchange books
- Want to give back to the D.C. community by using members of the school to help improve the D.C. math scores.
- Want everyone to work together; communal learning.
- Interdepartmental teams
- CEACS Honors program
- Easily Accessible alumni database
Previous Experience:
CEAS Student Council, Programs Committee, and Assistant Administrator in one of the computer labs.
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