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Creating & Developing A* Academic Societies
Learning objectives
Learning objectives
• Identify data that can be used to make the case for the value of academic societies
• Understand what co-curricular and extra-curricular means and how this may be important
• Identify activities and ideas that can be used to develop academic societies
• Reflect on partnership and consider how this is relevant to their work
What are academic societies & why are they interesting?
What are academic societies?
• Different names in different unions: o ‘Academic societies’o ‘Departmental societies’o ‘Course societies’o ‘Subject societies’o ‘Co-curricular societies’
Why are academic societies interesting?
• Members linked by interest rather than activity = variety of activities (fun, academic, campaign/cause, developmental, social)
• Academic societies accessible to all
• Good place for union to start improving societies- Improve quality, improve number of
societies, increased society membership, cross-union working
Why are academic societies interesting?
• Success in the Student Market: ‘…appetite is increasing for course-related societies’
• Top two reasons for getting involved with course-based societies:
To help with their course or study (29%)To get to know new friends better (17%)
Co-curricular and extra-curricular activities
• ‘Curricular’ from ‘curriculum’ = “the aggregate of courses of study given in a school, college, university, etc.:”
• ‘Co-curricular’ = complementing the curriculum• ‘Extra-curricular’ = outside of the curriculum
What should the main activity of an academic society be?
Vote now!
Co-curricular and extra-curricular activities
Does it matter to your to your SU to define co- and extra-curricular activities?
Vote now!
Co-curricular and extra-curricular activities
Ideas for activities
Cross-union working
• Academic reps system
• Sports - intramural teams
• Volunteering (course-based)
• Promote NSS/SLTAs
Activities for academic societies
• Having too much fun?
• Meaningful activity- high-quality networking- Skills development
Working with your institution
What is Partnership?
Partnership is a way of working that looks to go beyond “student engagement” and to challenge the growing narrative of students as passive consumers.
- Students and academics working together to make their education better – to be jointly responsible and jointly empowered to make changes.
Read “A Manifesto for Partnership” on NUS Connect.
Working with your institution
• Partnership
• Practical ideas:- Institutional staff - associate members?- Institutional staff - invited to society events?- Society attend departmental open days - Structure for academic reps and societies
Next steps
Follow-up
• Questions• Follow-up resources• Contact
[email protected] (Lunch & Learn/ Student Opps. queries)[email protected] (Higher Education knowledge)
• Next webinarTuesday 19th November, 12:30-13:30‘Breaking through Bureaucracy’
• Suggestions for future webinars
Thank you for taking part!