I am Eli and I am your Vice President for the College of Arts and Social Sciences. It`s been a few weeks already since I started my new adventure at the Students` Union.
As it is my first blog and quite some time has already passed, I will try to give you a flavour of what I have been up to so far.
First two weeks were handover period, having the privilege to work closely with the previous Sabbatical team and learn my first lesson, which actually is the mission statement of our unique organisation: “Enhancing Student Lives”. Everything we do is towards achieving this goal and making your student experience unforgettable and worth it.
The structure of the Students` Union is complex, but getting to know the fantastic staff from the different departments who will help us throughout the year, I can firmly say that it will be valuable experience!
Soon after starting and settling, we went to Scarborough for our team residential, where after open discussions, interactive games and many teambuilding exercises we came up with our Sabbatical Plan for the year ahead.I will try to find out what really matters for your student experience and together we can make a positive change!
On 16 July we went to UCLAN (University of Central Lancashire) for the event Meet Your Neighbours, which was organised by the NUS (National Union of Students), meant to gather together student leaders from our geographical region.
A collaborative project between the Students` Union and the university about Internationalisation will shortly start. It aims to increase the opportunities for home and international students to engage with each other and to incorporate a global perspective in all areas of Students` Union activity.
Last week I and Tom went to Lancaster and Christina and Mishal went to Bristol for NUS LEAD and CHANGE. All the courses were developed with vision that every student will play an active role in their Students Unions and the NUS.This training brought together national officers, NUS staff as well as officers and staff of students` unions.
I will leave you with a final quotation from Lead and Change:
“To put the world in order we must first put the nation in order.
To put the nation in order we must put the family in order.
To put the family in order we must cultivate our personal life.
And to cultivate our personal life we must first set our hearts right.”
