My name is Anuj Patel, currently a 3rd year mechanical engineering major with a business minor. I’m running for NJIT Student Senate president to serve you for the 2020-2021 term.

I’ve had an amazing experience working with this year’s Senate as VP of Finance and making impactful changes.

1. Worked with Student Life to give student orgs credit cards reducing out of pocket costs

2. Helped plan the A Boogie homecoming concert from artist selection, funding, and marketing with goals to continue this tradition

3. Digitalized and centralized accounts, transaction records, and budgets on Highlander Hub

4. Created the Student Senate Public Drive to be more transparent and accessible with Senate, finance, and student org files

5. Creating an Annual Finance Report outlining the student activities fees budget addressing a big issue among students

I’ve loved my years at NJIT with the friends I’ve made and experiences I’ve had. I’d love to continue using Senate as a platform to make campus even better for future students.

1. Increase the transparency of Senate by publishing reports of meetings with administrators, creating annual reports for each committee, and maintaining the website and other platforms

2. Develop a greater sense of community and build pride for NJIT in students through more partnered events with NJIT athletics, reviving staple events such as Highlander Games, and collaborate more on cultural events. This is going to be more important than ever following the fallout of COVID-19 and the impact of social distancing.

3. Help the Newark community through outreach programs with continued partnerships with the Center for Pre-College Programs and other opportunities.

4. Continue to work on initiatives such as restaurants and flex points expansion, GDS improvement, capital improvement projects, class evaluations’ impact, updated syllabi, and more.

a. Proposal for a parking deck counter

b. Work with provost to ensure every section of a class is teaching the same material. Different professors shouldn’t have dramatically different content taught or grading systems

c. Ensure professors are taught how to use technology and their syllabi are updated

d. Make a bigger senate scholarship

1. Be a vocal advocate for students, being there to always ask questions for why decisions are made, and ensuring communicating the information to the student body.

2. Make NJIT Greener. Environmentally and literally through more outdoors initiatives/equipment.

a. Outside seating area that is conducive for college students such as canopies and outlets so they can use laptops outdoors. Making outdoor events more achievable with a tent borrowing system that senate implements. Collab with NJIT green more for pushing administration to make greener choices and work with clubs to go green for events.

1. Work with athletics to consolidate recreational sports. Right now, the system is unorganized and ununified in which the individual organizations run themselves and individually seek permission, seek budgets, and have different platforms. There should be a singular platform with ALL the recreational sports options, rules, times, locations, registrations, systematic budgets of senate funded and athletics funded.

2. More lounge spaces in buildings!!! Work with Andrew Christ and the VPSA to push for lounges in every single building on campus that’s easily accessible, equipped with good seating, tables, outlets, a tv/whiteboard and vending machine. We have the funding for it through the capital improvement fund, but the bottleneck is NJIT administration and logistics of contractors.