Tag: Governance
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What is a student association? What is a student union?
What is a student association? What is a student union? The answer is more complicated than the simple answer, which is: A usually incorporated and autonomous organization, with democratic control, with leadership elected by, elected from, funded by and providing representational and other services to students of a post-secondary institution. The complicated answer is it…
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The Leisure Thesis
The leisure thesis is that as alternatives and competition for recreation have increased, quality of offerings have increased, and ability to pay for non-going-out recreation have increased, that people have shifted from student associations to better, paid alternatives.
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Board Composition
Big board, small board, at-large board, constituency board. The data from the biggest student associations tell us some stories about student union governance.
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Student Association Accreditation
If the sector were to self-accredit, would it be greatly to their credit? We explore Alex Usher’s 2012 blog post, where he said it
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Polycrisis unravelling at TMU
TMSU faces crises manifold: A failed election yielding no candidates, allegations of financial impropriety, a delayed annual general meeting, a messy executive resignation, and a governance grey zone
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Quorum Quagmire at Kwantlen
Why a quirk of old B.C. law may trip up plans for a new student building.