This summer, students are again advocating for Stevens to rename Gianforte Family Hall (GFH) through a change.org petition and other initiatives happening primarily through social media.
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This summer, students are again pushing for Gianforte Family Hall (GFH) to be renamed. Also known as the Gateway Academic Center, GFH was named in 2017 after Montana Governor Greg Gianforte ‘83 due to sizable donations he made to Stevens.
After over a year of COVID-19 pushing events and classes to virtual settings, commencement 2021 took place in person. Spread out over a series of eight in-person ceremonies, graduating students were able to walk across the stage at the Meadowlands Expo Center in Secaucus, NJ.
March 25, 2021 marked the commencement of this year’s TechFest, an annual music festival hosted by the student-run Entertainment Committee (EC) at Stevens.
On Friday, April 30, the annual Ansary Entrepreneurship Competition took place virtually; this is the second consecutive year in which the event was not held in person due to the pandemic.
On Wednesday, April 28, Stevens began the annual Innovation Expo with previews of senior design projects in the Canavan Arena on campus.
Last June, President Nariman Farvardin and Stevens Vice Presidents endorsed Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) goals and actions in an effort to improve discourse and action surrounding D&I at Stevens.
On April 22, the Take Back the Night Committee (TBTNC) hosted its eighth annual Take Back the Night event virtually this year as “Take Back the Net.”
Continuing student efforts to combat hate towards the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community, the Chinese Student Association (CSA) is running a “Combating AAPI Hate Sticker Fundraiser.
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, many events have been thrown into uncertainty; however, Stevens is planning for multiple in-person Commencement ceremonies.