My first blog! I apologise for how long it took to get up here on the website but hopefully there should be more on their way!
23rd October 2007 - Blog 1.1
Hello & thanks for taking the time to read this, my first ever blog as the Equal Opportunities Executive at Hallam Union. Firstly I'd like to thank those who took the time to vote for me. After we were elected by the students in February we took up office at the end of June. So, now just as you're all facing up to the fact that term is about to start [[& the work with it]] spare a minute to think about the exec who have been in office, working hard [[or not so hard sometimes! Hehe!]] throughout the entire summer! Stuck in a giant silver building with no windows during the summer months has not been fun but getting to know the staff at the Union and planning all the exciting stuff for this upcoming semester has been!
The summer has been packed with allsorts from team building events to telephone training, planning the freshers week to packing the freshers packs, and dinners on the wavy grass, & with the 'executives'! The most exciting thing which we've been involved with has been recruiting a new General Manager to look after us all which was a surreal experience, knowing that you, [[who was 'just' a student weeks ago]] are now influencing whether someone gets a job or not!
I've also really enjoyed all the training we've been on which has been all around the country! Last week I went to London's Canary Wharf and Manchester and this week I've been to Huddersfield. We've also been to loads of other student unions and have met other execs who have been voted in by their students too and it's been a great opportunity to share ideas and exchange thoughts. At one of these meetings we found out about NEYAH which is a regional group and recently I've spent time getting the rest of the execs to agree to join and have started working on projects for it. It's for student execs like us to meet up and work with others at different universities and colleges in our region to campaign for big issues which affect us all, no matter which institution we are at.
Projects I've been working on over the summer include:
· Re-launching the 'Hate Crime Reporting Centre' which is in the Advice Centre
· Organising my Winter Term housing project, aimed at stopping students from signing up to housing too early & then getting a rough deal
· Achieving a partnership between the Police & Union to help keep us all safer!
· Establishing a sexual health centre run by students for students
· Working closely with the Liberation Campaigns
· Purchasing and organising materials for the Freshers Fayres
I've also been working closely with the University's International Students department to try and ensure that students from all countries can use the Union and get something out of it. This year the whole exec is concentrating on trying to provide a quality service for all students and we want to help students from other cultures feel just as involved as students from the UK.
Well that's plenty for now but I hope you've got a flavour for some of the things we've been involved with this summer while you were hopefully enjoying yourselves. I hope you enjoyed Freshers Week and please, if you need to contact me about anything, please feel free to contact me at j.green@shu.ac.uk. If it's not something I can help you with then at least I'll be able to point you in the right direction! Also, if you would like to be involved with the Sexual Health Centre at the Union or want more information about any of the Liberation Societies [[LGBT, Women's, Students With Disabilities - SWD, International Students' or Black & Ethnic Minority Students campaigns,]] please feel free too!
Jess :)
Hello & thanks for taking the time to read this, my first ever blog as the Equal Opportunities Executive at Hallam Union. Firstly I'd like to thank those who took the time to vote for me. After we were elected by the students in February we took up office at the end of June. So, now just as you're all facing up to the fact that term is about to start [[& the work with it]] spare a minute to think about the exec who have been in office, working hard [[or not so hard sometimes! Hehe!]] throughout the entire summer! Stuck in a giant silver building with no windows during the summer months has not been fun but getting to know the staff at the Union and planning all the exciting stuff for this upcoming semester has been!
The summer has been packed with allsorts from team building events to telephone training, planning the freshers week to packing the freshers packs, and dinners on the wavy grass, & with the 'executives'! The most exciting thing which we've been involved with has been recruiting a new General Manager to look after us all which was a surreal experience, knowing that you, [[who was 'just' a student weeks ago]] are now influencing whether someone gets a job or not!
I've also really enjoyed all the training we've been on which has been all around the country! Last week I went to London's Canary Wharf and Manchester and this week I've been to Huddersfield. We've also been to loads of other student unions and have met other execs who have been voted in by their students too and it's been a great opportunity to share ideas and exchange thoughts. At one of these meetings we found out about NEYAH which is a regional group and recently I've spent time getting the rest of the execs to agree to join and have started working on projects for it. It's for student execs like us to meet up and work with others at different universities and colleges in our region to campaign for big issues which affect us all, no matter which institution we are at.
Projects I've been working on over the summer include:
· Re-launching the 'Hate Crime Reporting Centre' which is in the Advice Centre
· Organising my Winter Term housing project, aimed at stopping students from signing up to housing too early & then getting a rough deal
· Achieving a partnership between the Police & Union to help keep us all safer!
· Establishing a sexual health centre run by students for students
· Working closely with the Liberation Campaigns
· Purchasing and organising materials for the Freshers Fayres
I've also been working closely with the University's International Students department to try and ensure that students from all countries can use the Union and get something out of it. This year the whole exec is concentrating on trying to provide a quality service for all students and we want to help students from other cultures feel just as involved as students from the UK.
Well that's plenty for now but I hope you've got a flavour for some of the things we've been involved with this summer while you were hopefully enjoying yourselves. I hope you enjoyed Freshers Week and please, if you need to contact me about anything, please feel free to contact me at j.green@shu.ac.uk. If it's not something I can help you with then at least I'll be able to point you in the right direction! Also, if you would like to be involved with the Sexual Health Centre at the Union or want more information about any of the Liberation Societies [[LGBT, Women's, Students With Disabilities - SWD, International Students' or Black & Ethnic Minority Students campaigns,]] please feel free too!
Jess :)
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