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The Maverick Minute | Former Student President Renata Valquier Chavez

Renata Valquier Chavez, who served as the UNO Student Body President and Student Regent in 2018-19, chats with Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, M.D.

  • published: 2019/05/31
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Renata Valquier Chavez, who served as the UNO Student Body President and Student Regent in 2018-19, chats with Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, M.D.

  • Renata's impressions on the role of student president weren't as she had expected. The roles of student regent and student body president are completely different and it was good to have a summer to figure them out.

  • The balance between student, student body president and student athlete were a challenge to figure out. Renata went in with the idea of she was only a student athlete while at practice, at Board of Regents meetings she focused only on her role as student body president, in class she was solely a student, etc.

  • What she is most proud of as her time as Student Body President is the work that they've helped lay for future Student Governments by revising the bylaws.

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