After over five months into their roles as student body president and vice president, respectively, Emma Carter, a fourth-year pursuing sociology and international studies, and Nicole Teague, a fourth-year studying business administration, discussed their accomplishments and their future goals.

Teague said that they have been working with Wellness & Recreation on an initiative for ROTC students to use Miller Fields for their training. The facility would be available for all students to use. 

“One things we’re working on right now is the Miller Fields initiative,” Teague said. “We’re trying to open up Miller Fields 30 minutes earlier so that the ROTC programs are able to complete their PT in the morning.”

Carter was also working on an initiative for students in ROTC programs that were coming early to campus and needed to be covered in terms of parking on campus. Carter said she and NCSU Transportation have come to a deal where students would pay $10 for a parking pass that would cover them until 8:30 am.

Carter also said they are still working on a cultural competency training, exploring different ways to implement and impactful training. She said she researched diversity trainings at other universities such as Virginia Tech and the University of Illinois, to translate it to NC State’s own training.

Teague also said that this year the executive branch is also working on engaging NC State’s voter base.

“Another thing we’ve been working on is with Leadership and Civic Engagement is coming up with some voting initiatives on campus,” Teague said. “Because over 50% of voters in the precinct are NC State students or have an NC State address. So we’re coming up with some new ways to engage the student population with voting because we know we have some important elections coming up.”

Carter said that another initiative they have worked on is moving the interfaith prayer space to Talley. The move to the cultural hearth in Talley is on a one-year trial basis and it will be monitored to see if a second prayer space is necessary. 

“The interfaith prayer space was solely located in Witherspoon so Campus Enterprises took it upon themselves to monitor what the use of space was,” Carter said. “We’ve collaborated with different student organizations that have been using this interfaith prayer space and we are moving it solely to Talley on a one year trial basis.”

Looking to the future, Carter said they want to continue working on connecting Student Government with students by attending and listening in on student organization meetings and educating students about the dimensions of wellness.

“Making one student’s life a little bit easier is our ultimate goal,” Teague said. “We just want to help as many students as possible and make sure that they know that Student Government is an advocate and we are a resource for those students.”