Platform Point #4: Speaking for Students!

If re-elected, I will establish an Academic Lobbying Platform within the AUS. There will be two steps to establishing the Platform.

1) Conducting an Academic Survey: the AUS will consult students through a number of different means (focus groups, paper surveys, online surveys, discussion boards on the AUS website). Students will be asked to give their feedback in terms of academic priorities- whether they be smaller class sizes, lower tuition, better teacher training for TAs, more Arts Advisors, more study space in and around Buchanan, etc.

2) Putting the Platform into Action: based on the outcome of this survey, the AUS will form an academic lobbying platform that outlines our goals and priorities in order of importance. The platform will also outline how the AUS can achieve these goals. The AMS Representatives will then be guided by this platform in all their dealings with the AMS and its many Committees, and the Executive will also be guided by the platform when liaising with actors within the Faculty of Arts.