The move to an online schooling environment has reshaped the academic path of every student at McMaster. My goal is to consolidate the most pressing concerns of students who have gone through this online experience and advocate on their behalf to the faculty. Some of the major pain points that students have addressed so far include concerns about proctoring, increased workload, strict deadlines, excessive screen time, stream allocation concerns, slow internet speed, hardware issues, and many more. All students, administrators, and professors are still adjusting and adapting to this new life. If voted in, I intend to work with all key stakeholders to push for stricter class times to guarantee more time away from the screen between classes. I want to advocate diversified evaluation schemes so that students are not met with identical "adapted assignments" that pile up over the semester in every class. We can work towards ensuring that students in other timezones are not being put at a disadvantage during synchronous evaluations, that students with poor internet connectivity are not penalized for disconnects, and that the faculty and students alike can come to an agreement on what an effective online/in-person/hybrid year will look like.

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Finally, I hope to reopen the conversation on the current MSAF protocol. I want to work with VPAs from other societies to address ways in which we could restructure MSAF procedure to possibly extend the life of a given MSAF, increase the evaluation weight for which an MSAF is valid, or possibly increase the number of MSAFs that students are permitted to use over the course of a semester. The current protocols are designed for an in-person school year under standard conditions, and it goes without saying that 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 are not standard in-person years.