- made up of levy heads. I want to expand this. I want to have a betty and dash painting session at orientation week too. I want to engage students in this exciting time through personal lifestyle engagements and education. I want to advertise more, change up the current cite and try to find a way to get people really engaged in what’s going on and involved. I want to add permanency and structure to what’s been done previously, I want to continue some things that Alice did that were really cool. I want to be a liaison between the student body and the rest of the Toronto action community, looking for serious support for initiative, with volunteers. I will be making a timeline for this year and send it to you. And the last thing is, I want to ask a question: I’ve been getting fashion show applications, but I don’t feel qualified to assess these applications, I want to create a new way to assess these applications. Does this make sense to you guys? I don’t feel qualified to do this.
- • Emily: Have you made an effort to contact past directors, to see if they want to be involved?
- • Leila: No, it literally just came up, but I definitely will.
- • Bergita: You might want to include the Arts and Culture commissioner, or others on council.
- - Academic and Professional - Michelle
- • Michelle: Hi I’m Michelle, I’m the Academic and Professional Development Commissioner. A few weeks ago I went to an alumni meeting, award, conference type of thing with the Alumni Office and we decided on the recipients for this leadership award. One of the main goals that I have for the next year is to hold a yearly academic conference at Vic. Mainly, this conference will feature the five divisions unique to Vic, such as semiotics and medieval studies. The process will be as follows: a hiring committee comprised of alumni, students, and professors will read through submitted essays, choose 5- 10 winners, and the winners will speak at the conference and read their essays. There will be a keynote speaker. I hope to see this conference take place in March; however, applications are set to open in November to give the students more time. Another academic initiative is that I want to implement bimonthly or monthly workshops revolving around essay writing, interview skills, and resume writing. Another thing is alumni student mixers, I hope to have three this year, we can have them speak about experiences. I want to work with William Robins to give every Vic student a research opportunity, like a placement, not this year but a long term goal. I want to promote VUSAC as a useful resource relevant to the student body, primarily through the VUSAC website, with links to resources hubs. We talked about a jobs fair that I have to figure out. I want to hire a committee of around 8 people to help me throughout the year.
- - Equity - Claire
- • Claire: Hi everybody, I’m Claire as most of you know. I am the Equity Commissioner. My role is to represent concerns and experiences of Vic students as they relate to equitability. I advise VUSAC on improvements of equity and accessibility on campus. I chair the equity committee and I provide equity training too for student groups. I have been organizing the focus groups with Ben and Gabe, for mental health and sexual assault and made applications for that. We will meet to review policy, and get an idea of students’ experiences with these issues. I would like to make an equity experience survey, to see what exists and what is missing, what is and isn't provided on campus. I need to form that and send that out in the next couple weeks. I will be working on revamping equity training this summer, what we have now is pretty sparse to cover more and as an ongoing conversation, not just one-time training. I will be meeting with Lucinda and Iris Robin from Trinity College. I will also be

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