The winter 2011 WEEF proposal period closed on February 15th and WEEF is currently preparing for the Funding Council meetings that will occur after reading week. If you have submitted a proposal, don’t forget that you need to make a presentation to the council – presentations will occur on March 1st in DWE 3522 and March 3rd in RCH 301 at 5:30 pm. Dinner will be provided to each WEEF class rep who attends these meetings.
To ensure your class/department gets a say in the distribution of this term’s $60,000.00, please make sure that a representative from your class attends these meetings. If you don’t know if your class has a representative, email WEEF and we will add you to the roster. It is incredibly important that each department is well represented at the funding council meeting.
In other news, WEEF has statistics for you! This term only 21 percent of all students opted to get their voluntary student contribution refund. Refund rates have been similarly low for the last year, which is good news for WEEF and for you. See the accompanying chart to see how your class compares to the rest of the faculty.
Last issue, I mentioned that WEEF will be holding an Annual General Meeting this term. What will this involve? Among other things, we want to add a new member to our Board of Directors. We also plan on answering questions and clearing up any misconceptions about WEEF that have been expressed in the last year. I seem to remember free t-shirts and cake being popular at last year’s 20th birthday celebrations – expect some sort of similar excitement at this year’s event. Do you have questions you want answered by WEEF at the AGM? Email us at weef@uwaterloo.ca
As a final note, I want to congratulate Laurin Benson who will (pending the board of directors’ approval) take over as the B-Soc WEEF director in the Fall term. Thanks everyone for your continued interest in WEEF and the fantastic faculty it supports.
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