IEU Student Government Update
Dear IE Community, dear students,
We from the IEU Student Government would like to take this opportunity to wish you a happy new year and a warm welcome back to the university! We hope you enjoyed your holidays and are now full of energy and motivation to start this new semester.
Also, congratulations to the Stork team for the first issue of our new newspaper! We believe this is a great initiative and something that we were missing at our university, so we are very happy to see this new project taking form.
My name is Angie and I am the IEU Student Government’s Community Development Officer. From now onwards, I will be writing for the Stork and publishing a bi-weekly update for all of you about any projects we are working on, meetings we have had, things we have achieved or any other important dates or events we think could be of interest for the students.
We all believe that this is a great channel of communication for us to use next to our social media channels to keep you informed about everything we are doing. However, if you have any questions about any of our projects, you have a general concern or a complaint, or also a great idea that you think we should try to implement, please do not hesitate to reach out to us on our social media pages on Facebook and Instagram, or personally during our on-campus Office Hours or simply when you see any of us around campus.
As it is the first week of the semester, I thought I would start this series off by providing you with a little overview of some of the main things we have done last semester:
Academics:
Extended campus opening hours to 3am during exam time
Achieved ability to reserve study spaces in the new building in Madrid
Submitted proposals to the university regarding: Improved exam feedback and review
Helped solve problem for Dual Degree students about doing exchanges and internships that clashed with mandatory credits
Free professional head-shots for students
Extracurricular Activities:
Organised the freshers’ week in both campuses
Worked with the Masters school to bring IE a new mascot
Improved system of clubs to incentivise more participation and activity from the clubs themselves
Assisted with setting up IE University student newspaper, The Stork
Events
First Beer Blast in Madrid
Worked with the UN Student Association to bring the Connecting Cultures project to life and have the exhibition come to IE
Helped to organise the Winter Wonderland event
Connecting Cultures Exhibition
Community Development:
Benefit concert with the Music Club
Brought Luke Ambler from the UK to speak to students about mental health
Published various posts to promote personal wellbeing and good mental health
Helped the Green Club with their Green Week
Handed out chocolates during exams
Other:
Started the Student Government Office Hours every week
Segovia shuttle buses to airport
Participated and helped organize focus groups about the new Sego cafeteria
As you can see, it has been quite a busy semester for us! But we are also very excited to get to work again and make all the ideas and plans we have for this semester a reality, as well as to hear from all of you and your great inputs! However, more about the plans we already have for this semester in two weeks!
Until then, I hope you have a great week!
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