Top three platform points

1. UWaterloo degree-tracking software

UWaterloo students do not have software that helps us track our credits and UW Flow is rapidly becoming obsolete. The university has the information we need to track our progress toward graduation, and students should too! We shouldn’t have to wander around, website to website, spreadsheet to spreadsheet, trying to figure out if we are going to graduate on time.

2. Democratizing senate and the university as a whole

Students have no consistent pathway to bring motions to the Senate floor. As things stand, the only serious way to bring a motion forward is to find the right person in the administration to consider you. Even when they do, by the time the motions reach us, they have been reviewed and modified to the point where the idea is a shell of its former self.

Elected senators, both student and Faculty, should have consistent pathways to bring motions to the senate floor, without first needing to convince a handful of often overpaid and out of touch administrators.

3. University divestment from genocide

Horizon fought hard and succeeded in getting the University to cut ties with Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. It’s time to finish the job, and get the University to echo the support that students have shown for Palestine and human rights, divesting its investments from sources who are complicit in human rights abuses.

Reason why someone should vote for you in 100 words or less

As an incumbent senator, I have defended the right of university bodies to make statements in psupport of Palestine and divestment because the University shouldn’t have the authority to police speech, also succeeding in getting the university to cut ties with Technion. I have advocated for safety resources like WalkSafe and I will help expand IMPACT so that students having a mental health crisis can get help any day of the week, any hour of the day. As Science Senator, I am going to implement a degree-tracking software so that Waterloo students aren’t lost about if they’re on track to graduate.

Through building a united student senate, we can bring more than talk, and deliver real change to students.

Links to any website, social media accounts and/or email address

Website: https://waterloohorizon.ca/misha/
Instagram: @vote4horizon

Top three platform points

Keep tuition and fees low by challenging proposed increases and lobbying for increased provincial funding
Get Science students a wider range of opportunities i.e. more lab experiences and international exchange options
Build authentic relationships between the university administration and students

Reason why someone should vote for you in 100 words or less

In my previous term as Science Senator, I increased student representation on the Science Faculty Council from 2 seats to 5, repeatedly advocated for more study days between the end of classes and exams, lobbied for improved maintenance of our buildings and residences, built academic culture by hosting public debates (The Waterloo Forum), and engaged students with opinion articles in Imprint. The Senate colleagues have recognized my dedication by electing me to the UW Board of Governors. If re-elected I will continue advocating for Science students by building on these accomplishments and delivering on my platform points.

Links to any website, social media accounts and/or email address

https://www.instagram.com/jordantbauman/
www.linkedin.com/in/jordan-bauman-jtb