Welcome back to campus, and to a new term with A-Soc! I’m Jeff, your new VP Education, taking over for my buddy Josh. I deal with everything Academic or Co-op related. I’ll try to give you a quick overview of everything that’s happening this term, and as always, feel free to ask if you have any questions!
We decided to switch things up this term! Traditionally the Student Services Commissioner (SSC) has been under the VP Internal portfolio. This term however, as a team we decided to move it under Education. I’ll be working closely with Pat Duong over the term to make sure EngSoc provides meaningful services to our members. We’ll also be re-evaluating the workshops offered at the end of the term to make sure a wide variety of programs/years are benefiting from them.
As well, I’m implementing a new initiative, Ongoing Resume Critiques with Adelle, the President. On our website, www.engsoc.uwaterloo.ca/services/coop-and-career-services/resume-critiques, you can find profiles for upper-year students across a variety of programs. They’ve all generously provided their emails, so feel free to take advantage of this new service and email them to get your resume critiqued throughout the term! If you have feedback or questions about this service, please reach out and let me know.
When I ran for election in the Spring term, one of my campaign points was CECA accountability. To that end, I will strive to provide regular updates about WaterlooWorks in my IW articles and am currently in the process of setting up a demo in CPH foyer. I hope that this will allow students the opportunity to ask questions, and more importantly, receive answers from staff working on WaterlooWorks. I have been in contact with the communications specialist, who tells me that the project continues to be on track for January 2017.
In addition to CECA accountability, I am hoping to organize an academic representatives meeting during the term. It will be chance for reps to discuss issues that affect students across the entire faculty, and affect multiple years, such as course critiques. So if you’re an academic rep, keep an eye out for that!
Finally, the last and most important part of VP Education is advocating for engineering students. I sit on a variety of councils and committees, which I won’t bore you with here. But between myself and the President, we can likely bring up any issues you have at the appropriate time to the right people.
When I’m not in class, you can likely find me in the Orifice (CPH 1327). My “official” office hours are 2:30 – 4:30 on Mondays, but feel free to stop in any time, even just to say hello. Alternatively, you can always email me at vpeducation.a@engsoc.uwaterloo.ca.
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