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Student Forum

  1. Atom - Provost
  2. Financial updates
  3. Officer Updates
  4. Elections
  5. New Student center
  6. Student Safety Discussion
  7. What have students asked

ATOM - Provost

  • Rena Cole is now Provost
  • Acedemic Transformation of Operating Model
  • QCA -> GPA
  • QCA Calculator?
  • Couldnt move to new model, too many issues
  • 5-10 credits for modules
  • Bigger modules
    • Will be reqorking modules

Financial updates

  • I cant see the screen.....
    • Joys of being blind....
  • These are the folks who talk about capitations
  • 100 -> 106
    • Has not risen in 12 years???
    • Not even to combat inflation
  • We (ULSL) will still get the rental income

Officer Updates

  • President
    • Will we be able to vote for Irish President before UL president???
  • Welfare Officer
    • Review in progress of Student Health Center
      • Wonder if Out are one of the flks involved
    • Improved Councelling resources
  • VP Acedemic officer
  • VP Communities offer
    • Working on allowing chosen names to be used without legal chaning
    • More than jsut wolves/email, also on documents....
  • Student Council Chair
    • brough forward motion about gaeilge
  • Faculties Officer
    • Also worked on Irish transalaton for
    • Discresionally bands are gone after this next graduation

Elections

New Student center

  • Student Life will be able to ean money (?) from teh enw center
  • Slight delay, mid may for substanctional completion date
  • 15th of may do an open tour

Student Safety Discussion

  • Would have been really nice if the folks from teh UNI were still here now
  • Timeline
    • Incident happened in September
    • ULSL were assured by UL that it was being handled properly

What have students asked

Why high fees but poor facilities

  • See ATOM above

Why is teh large portion of parking paid

  • They want more car parking as well

Are course directors taking the feedback of students and using it

What steps is teh uni taking to unprove mental wellbeing

Will it be ready for august

Wolfie

  • Wolfie has a musk