Proposals, University Committees and Progress

I’ve not posted anything in a while, but I do want to change that now that my course has finished and I have a little more time on my hands.

Over the past few weeks, I’ve finished of all my assignments and then focused on Course Reps, which seem to be dominating my life…

We have a final proposal document which details all that we want from a new Student Reps system as well as plans of how we see it being structured, this document now has to be approved by the University and it’s multitude of committees (most of which seem to have rather similar memberships) – it’s gone through the Deans, last week me and Laura took it to Student Experience – they loved it and just wanted a few minor changes to terminology and more University involvement in the management of the system (gutted that they don’t realise it’s the University’s poor management that got us into this awful situation), ah well – if I succeed in getting the right Uni managers involved, we might be able to make it a positive thing.

Lincoln Student Reps - The Final Proposal

Tomorrow, I’m going solo and taking it the ‘Academic Affairs’ committee as Kayleigh is having a break from work, in Egypt (very lucky young lady!)… So this evening will involve lots of note making and prep, but I seem to know this thing inside out (as I did write it) so it shouldn’t be challenging… The only challenge is the Q&A session, but I kicked ass in Student Experience, so hopefully I’ll just get similar questions.

Ideally, the University will just let us get on with the actual work at some point soon, because we have a bloody huge amount to plough through. Last week, I made a list of all the different things we’ve got to plan / write / design / fund / distribute etc and it was quite daunting, but it’ll be worth it.

Finally, I feel like we are making progress; we’ve finished our proposal and the Uni are taking notice of us and although the processes may be frustrating and drawn out; they are happening which is all good.