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SGA Student Life Committee pursues MyIIT integration

Ethan Castro
COMMUNICATIONS COMMI'I'I'EE MEMBER

MyIIT cannot be ignored as a part
of every student’s daily life at Illinois Techi
From accessing academic records or inputting
work timetables to more recently having quick
access to student organization information via
Hawklink, MleT is an indispensable hub for
student life within this university (assuming
it is used properly) While there are many
sources of suggestion for ways to have MyIIT
better serve the student body, one such way
Student Government Association (SGA) is
seeking to improve the service is by having
a dedicated SGA tab for easy access Thus,
the ongoing project of Senator Trixie Weiner

 

(Lewis College of Human Sciences) in the
Student Life Committee is to implement an
SGA plugin directly on the MleT page

It seems that a common aspect of
recent SGA projects is to increase mediums
through which the student body can reach
their senators, but that is not to say these
projects are redundant Being able to reach
SGA is a necessary foundation to set before
further actions can be taken to address student
feedback Students will not follow their peers'
suggestions to report or provide feedback
if they do not know what the organization
does or how to reach it As Weiner herself
says, “the goal of this implementation is to
increase accessibility of studentitoiSGA
communication and improve the flow of
information We, as SGA senators, are always

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saying how ‘our door is open,‘ but so few
people have the time or awareness to actually
approach that door This will improve visibility
and begin the trek towards bridging the gap
between students and their SGA senators, and
even further, students and the administration”
These hopeful sentiments encapsulate an
overarching theme among SGA senators to be
a truly integrated voice of the students

Going more into the specifics of
this project, Weiner and the remainder of the
Student Life Committee hope to resurrect
an old SGA idea in the form of a suggestion
box through the MleT portal “This box
will provide a direct channel for students to
submit their suggestions, complaints, issues, or
requests to their SGA representatives" Similar
to the VoteBox system of previous years,

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having this suggestion source in MyIIT would
be a direct way for students to reach SGA with
any issues, any time on a common platform
Weiner and the rest of Student Life
Committee are still looking into how exactly
to integrate the SGA presence on MyIIT
Committee meetings are always open to
everyone (every other Wednesday with the next
being at 9:15 pm, October 26 in the MTCC
colored rooms) Additionally, any suggestions
or feedback about this specific project can be
addressed to Weiner at bweiner@hawkiiitiedui

 

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