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Senators elected Catherine Morris as the president’s chief of staff and Zachary Nosanchuk as the senate s chief of staff to help manage the executive and legislative branches of the SA, respectively.
The Student Association Senate unanimously approved two appointees to serve as executive and legislative chiefs of staff next year during a meeting Monday.
Senators elected Catherine Morris as the president’s chief of staff and Zachary Nosanchuk as the senate’s chief of staff to help manage the executive and legislative branches of the SA, respectively. After SA President Brandon Hill ascended to the SA’s top post in January following the resignation of then-President Howard Brookins, Morris replaced Hill as executive vice president and Nosanchuck served as the president’s chief of staff – experience that the appointees say prepared them for their new positions.
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Hill touted achievements related to student refunds for dropped courses and Pass/No Pass policies as part of his record of listening to student voices.
The current Student Association president became the first to announce his campaign for the SA’s top spot for the next term Tuesday.
SA President Brandon Hill – a junior who previously served as executive vice president and assumed the presidency last month – is running on a platform to improve course affordability, student inclusivity in governance and internal operations in the SA. Hill said he will work with members of the SA Senate and officials to help students regain stability following the COVID-19 pandemic and expand cultural resources on campus outside of the Multicultural Students Services Center.
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The two nursing aides were supposed to start work at the Manchester Manor nursing home in early December, a welcome addition to a staff that has put in long hours under risky conditions and now faces a new wave of coronavirus cases.
But the week they were supposed to begin, both would-be employees informed management that they had instead taken jobs with Amazon in Connecticut, a safer prospect as COVID-19 cases among nursing home staff and residents are again on the rise.
“They just said they were more comfortable working at Amazon than they felt working in a nursing home,” said Paul Liistro, who owns the Manchester Manor and Vernon Manor facilities. “The turnover is pretty high, even if you get employees who think they want to work with people. They don’t really know how closely they’re going to be working with people until they get here.”
The two nursing aides were supposed to start work at the Manchester Manor nursing home in early December, a welcome addition to a staff that has put in long hours under risky conditions and now faces a new wave of coronavirus cases.
But the week they were supposed to begin, both would-be employees informed management that they had instead taken jobs with Amazon in Connecticut, a safer prospect as COVID-19 cases among nursing home staff and residents are again on the rise.
“They just said they were more comfortable working at Amazon than they felt working in a nursing home,” said Paul Liistro, who owns the Manchester Manor and Vernon Manor facilities. “The turnover is pretty high, even if you get employees who think they want to work with people. They don’t really know how closely they’re going to be working with people until they get here.”