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FXU Student Council

The last Student Council meeting for the 2009-10 academic year took place on Mon 24th May 2010, please see the notes from the meeting below by clicking on the date.

FXU will be appointing 2010-11 Student Council in the Autumn term. If you are interested in being a member to represent academic issues or halls issues, please get in touch with FXU Research & Representation Co-ordinator by email janice.mitchelson@falmouth.ac.uk or telephone 01326 254148 or pop into an FXU office. Students are also welcome to attend any Student Council meetings. Only Student Council Members have voting rights.

Minutes (notes) of previous Student Council meetings

2009-10: Mon 24th May 10  Wed 5th May 10   15th March 10  

                 28th January 10  1st December 09

2008-09:  28th May 09   30th April 09

2007-08:  30th April 08   12th February 08

What is Student Council? 

FXU Student Council is the broadest student representative body made up entirely of students to make sure that FXU remains responsive, responsible and accountable to its students. It is also currently the main decision-making and political policy-making body of FXU.

Who are the Student Council?

Members of the Student Council are a cross-section of course reps from University College Falmouth (UCF) and student members of Student-Staff-Liaison Committees from University of Exeter Cornwall Campus (UECC), covering all academic schools/subjects; and also includes Halls reps of Glasney Village and Tuke House as well as the elected FXU Presidents and Executive Officers.

Contact details of all Student Council members 2010-11 will be available here once appointed in the Autumn term 2010.

It is important that you know who your representatives are and how to contact them with issues you would like to raise. They will also do their best to make themselves known to you. If you have any issues over the summer, please contact your FXU Presidents.

Currently, FXU is looking into the membership of the Student Council as part of the governance review it is undertaking this year.  FXU wants to make sure that students who are often under-represented in student unions are represented such as international students, mature students, disabled students, part-time students and post-graduate students.  If you have any thoughts on this or would like to know more, please contact Janice Mitchelson (FXU Research & Representation Co-ordinator). FXU would particularly like to encourage students from the groups listed above to get in touch.

What do Student Council members do?

Student Council members meet twice a term in a formal student council meeting.

Discuss and vote on political policy and actions for FXU to put these policies into practice.

Find out about current issues from students they represent and raise them at Student Council meetings. Decide on action to be taken.

Gain feedback from students on issues discussed at Council.

Bring together student issues so that students can be better informed and collectively take action.

Receive reports from the FXU Board of Trustees to check FXU resources are being used appropriately and remain in the best interests of students.

Check up on the work of the Presidents and Executive Officers to make sure they are doing what students elected them for. Decide on action to be taken if there is a shortfall or if they are not doing their job.

                   Ask questions!

                                Hear student voices!

                                                  Create change for the better for students!

How does the Student Council link with all students?

Members make themselves and ways of contacting them known to the cohort of students they are representing. Contact details for all members will be available on this page soon once the council is formed in the Autumn term for 2010-11. See the Presidents and Executive Officers web pages if there is something you would like to contact them about now.

This can be done through:

• Course Committee meetings (UCF) and Student-Staff-Liaison-Committee meetings (UECC)
• FXU’s weekly e-newsletter
• Notices in Halls
• FXU website
• Flex – the independent student newspaper
• Talking to students
• Emailing students who have been in contact
• FXU events on and off campus
• Social networking such as facebook

Any ideas for helping you to find out what’s happening and to get issues raised? Then, please make suggestions to any Student Council member or the FXU Research & Representation Co-ordinator, Janice Mitchelson.

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