Shaquita - VP Education 23/24

Hi, I’m Shaquita – VP Education for 2023/24

😍 Favourite thing/s to do: Cycle along the waterfront.

✅ My green flags: Very passionate about what is important to me and generally just a silly gal!

🚩 My red flag: I reply to messages in my head but actually forget to respond.

💅 One word to describe me: Slay

💙 One word to describe JMSU: Home 

💬 One thing I am willing to do to step out of my comfort zone this year: Advocate for intersectionality and have uncomfortable yet important conversations more.

Seize every single opportunity through events, workshops and everything that’s thrown your way.

My manifesto aims 👇

Prioritise Mental Health

✅ ‘The study Shaq’ launching end of Nov, space for students to come study based directly on last year's feedback 

✅ Giving out wellbeing packs to students during assessment season 

✅ Linked with Alexandria's ‘wellbeing Wednesday' activities happening throughout 

✅ Promotional videos with JMSU and LJMU promoting services available e.g. academic achievement and SAW  

Completed

Rally for decreased travel costs

  • Transport paper to ELT following endorsement from COL WG.  
  • Working with LCRCA to integrate international students into wider community via free transport  
  • Reached out to NUS to see how we can get involved with their initiative
In progress

Improve the student voice experience

  • Feedback mechanisms web tool pending launch, needs to be reviewed by web designer  
  • Viewpoint device gathered loads of feedback throughout freshers' activities and pop-up unions  
  • Student feedback has been directly embedded into JMSU papers such as academic board 
  • Chat with Shaq has been created to build relationships with academic reps and get direct feedback in a safe space but also to help academic reps socialise with each other
In progress

Decolonising the curriculum

  • Decolonial book swap shelf about to be launched which has free books for students' fiction and nonfiction for them to read and then swap once finished, they can also their own books, all books from alternative perspectives  
  • Decolonise education student group: About to link with courses and existing societies to help them establish a society for this cause with incentive funding coming from student voice 
  • Webpage: Launching a site for the pledge to be public with its recommended actions for accountability, will have a function for students to sign the pledge and additional resources for educational purposes 
  • NUS: We are about to elect NUS activists for the upcoming conferences and plan to write a policy surrounding intersectional decolonial work to be discussed at conference  
Complete

Meetings & committees I sit on

TBC

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