Hello again,
The past week saw the NAITSA Executive Council travel to the beautiful and scenic Red Deer for the Alberta Students’ Executive Council Goal Setting Conference. ASEC is the provincial advocacy group for over 120,000 students from 12 post-secondary institutions. I happen to be the Vice Chair of ASEC, so I was quite busy the entire week.
The objective of the conference is to get input from the membership (12 students’ associations and unions) regarding our goals for the year well as policies which need to be created. Both of these were accomplished and much will be done this year to help students on the provincial level. Some professional development was also done, including a speech from the mayor of Red Deer, Morris Flewwelling, regarding lobbying on a municipal level. Jason Roth, NAITSA’s Director of Advocacy, gave a speech on lobbying provincially and Michael Donlevy from Red Deer College spoke about effective fundraising.
I also met with Mayor Mandel this morning to discuss the City Center Airport and LRT to NAIT. Both provide important opportunities for future NAIT students.
Until next time.
Tim