BUSAC Presentation

September 10, 2013BUSU PresidentCooper Millard

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Since we last met…

• Projects:– Sustainability – Turf Field– Hybrid Space– Pedagogical Innovation– Student Life– Wellness Week– Program Review– For the Future

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Sustainability

• Drinking fountains installed!– Union Station (2)– GB (1)– Scotia Bank Hall (1)– Tower (1)– Market, Thistle, Welch, Tower (2nd)?

• Water Bottles! Please use them! – We have 4000, tell your friends!

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Sustainability Cont’d

• Environmental Committee– Liaising with Sustainability Niagara– Presentations, Seminars, Best Practices, Campaigns– Working with Roland and Advocacy dept. for Organic

Waste/ Sustainability Campaigns

• Working with Brock and Brock’s Sustainability Committee

• GB making great strides in Sustainable practices!

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Hybrid Space

• Cairns Furniture delivered!• GB Furniture delivered!• Walker Complex furniture here Sept. 20• Working on space in Plaza for 24-Hour study• Mac Chown?... Email president@busu.net

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Pedagogical Innovation

• Meetings with Anna Lathrop, Sandy Howe, Linda Rose-Krasnor

• Experiential Learning vs. Service Learning vs. Traditional Undergraduate education

• Hoping to draft a Political Policy next BUSAC meeting – PI is a core principle of Brock’s SMA and Strat. Plan!– Also, Online Learning, Tri-Semester and Research

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Student Life

• Ongoing meetings for oversight of Student Life Fee spending/ MOU completion

• Committee meetings • Sitting on 24-Hour Social/ Study Space

Committee– Completed!

• Update: LIBRARY ENTRANCE NOW OPEN !!!– Doors will be accessible until Library closed (Friday

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Wellness Week

• Planning Ongoing! – 5 Pillars: Mental, Emotional, Physical, Spiritual,

Lifestyle (wellness)– Programming based each day on ONE pillar– Events, seminars, prizes, 24-Hour study

programming

• Goals: De-stress, Anti-Stigma, Educate & Entertain

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Program Review

• Currently Sitting on Task Force for Program Review Committee– Also a Working Group– In Process of accepting Program Identification

Forms– Next will be Program Prioritization Forms– October-December will be evaluation,

organization and prioritization period– Ongoing talks with University Senate/ Senators

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For The Future

• Work with BUFA– Student Led Teaching Awards

• Part of Academic Affairs mandate?

– Encourage more Service to Undergraduate Students (Evaluations, Awards, Incentives)

• New Building– Discussions/ Focus Groups– Comprehensive study of other institutions– Meetings with Goodman School of Business

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For the Future

• Campus Planning– Atrium Project– Transit Station Transformation– The “Brock Mall” and Commemorative Project– Taro – BUSU courtyard?

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