I’ve posted my statement of Intent for anyone interested
If you’d like to endorse it feel free to add your name
https://dallasmakerspace.org/wiki/2020_Statement_of_Intent_Kevin_Patel
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Hi Kevin, your SOI says you were an elected state official for over three years. Can you elaborate on this? What state government position did you hold and when? What were your responsibilities?
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Man good thing you didn’t go to Baylor you couldn’t claim to be a ‘State Elected Official’. 
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Yeah elected officials in the UT System are state elected officials with a government paycheck and all
That doesn’t answer any of the questions I asked?
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Yes, but can you acknowledge how just stating as a bullet point “Elected state official 3+ years” without the UTD qualification could easily lead to people misinterpreting it and therefore seem a bit disingenuous?
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So since you weren’t elected in a state election (sounds like a relatively minor student body election), and since most college students at a public school will at some point have a paycheck from the government, I’m gonna go out on a limb and say you have nowhere near the experience that’s implied by the term ‘elected state official’. There’s a big difference between being ‘student chairman’ for a portion of the student body and being a state senator, as another member assumed when they read your misleading claim.
Student chairman is more what I would expect given my experience with your car salesman-like overly pushy attempts at one way diplomacy. With that level of embellishment I wonder what else is embellished in there.
At the end of the day, I don’t need a board member who follows me relentlessly nagging until I support their position, who continually begs me to purchase loosely relevant things for another committee or seeks me out asking me to use my administrative rights for things I don’t understand and that are outside the scope of what I do.
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- Elected state official 3+ years
- Senator of The Year
I genuinely thought you got elected as a state senator. It’s very misleading imo, especially since I see other people here with the same concern.
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- Elected state official 3+ years
- First ever UT System Student Regent Candidate
- Senator of The Year
- UTD Executive Council 3+ Years
- Graduate & International Student Chair for UTD
6 Technology Chair for UTD - Parking & Safety committee
^ is this one also UTD? - Senior Senator for Engineering & Computer Science
- Campus Facilities & Master Planning
- Judicial Committee
- Controlling monthly budgets that are larger than DMS’s yearly budget in a student fee educational based organization
I’d like to see what the responsibilities are for each of these and how many separate positions are in this list.
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Listen to people and to be polite when agreeing to disagree.
There are different ways you can listen. They way you listen, in my opinion, based on how you’ve interacted with me and the board, is not by considering how the other party may have a useful idea, but rather how you can make points against what you think they’re saying, and only if they disagree with you.
I don’t think I’ve seen you change your mind once in a disagreement. Or even recognize good points made by the board. I don’t see how you would collaborate well with others.
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If elected as a director would you still continue as chair of Digital Media?
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@Kevin, Also, some of the goals you’ve listed are really confusing me with their “fluffiness”…please restate or expound on, if you would. Applying a S.M.A.R.T. approach would be very welcome. (Here is a link to the acronym explanation, if that helps: SMART criteria - Wikipedia).
“Goals” for further clarification:
– Finding innovative solutions to issues that are well thought out
– Increasing and supporting teaching of classes
– Return to being awesome to one another
– Listen to people and to be polite when agreeing to disagree (is this a personal goal or a DMS goal?)
– Staying open minded (is this a personal goal or a DMS goal?)
– Promoting a culture allowing DMS to be whatever people are currently interested in
– Respect Makers (is this a personal goal or a DMS goal?)
– Keeping a system of checks and balances
TiA for your time in fleshing these goals out for us.
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Undergrad and Grad school tenure @ UTD
Short version
- The student fees budget ~13-16mil year. All the things that paid for like athletic budget
- Campus master plan think 10 years - What building goes where. What gets leased out to who. Vision
- Head of the engineering students, international students & graduate students
- Teacher evaluations
- Keeping up with the Faculty senate
- Parking & Safety
- Judicial board for the police department appeals
- Online Courseware WebCT/Blackboard
- IT Things. Internet, Sharepoint servers
- Student services employees. Nurses, general lawyer, immigration lawyer
- Student union, pub, bookstore
- Various campus wide committees
I would pass it on to @LAndras
Unless both of us got elected to the board.
In that case there isn’t a current clear 3rd option
But will continue while keeping an eye out for someone to pass it on to
If anyone would like to step up to the plate please message me / just start a loose discussion
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so you’re claiming you ran the entire school basically; how about something concrete and not just a bunch of puffery
see these are licensed things; point to your Bar page if you are.
Overall this seems like a mass amount of puffery, and some outright misrepresentation.
You were not a state elected official in the typical usage of that term; you still haven’t stated what post you were actually elected to or provided a reference
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What elected office in the UT System did you hold?
How much of your income do you derive from DMS’ resources?
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Here’s a recommendation letter from Benjamin Dower whom I chaired over @UTD. He was Student President of UTD, UT System Regent & currently is Assistant Attorney General of Texas. Sorry for the late reply. I’ve been busy working on mass manufacturing of PPE Devices.
I’m not going to defend all these individual attack question fronts over the validity of my SOI and play these mean talk politics. It’s not false and there are many people that will stick by the facts.
Being mean or ugly like this hurts DMS’s image and is the opposite of encouraging members to stay or be involved. We are going to take a hit and need to bond together like a family to make it.
2020-03-25-Dower-Endorsement-Letter.pdf (55.4 KB)
That’s all I’m asking for…
What elected office in the UT System did you hold?
its in the letter provided by his classmate. he was “Chair of the Technology committee of UT Dallas’s Student Government”.
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Huh. I never realized a student government position was an “elected state official.” I need to call one of my kids who was involved in SG at UT Austin, have them update their resume.
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