- Dealt with academic appeals from the 15 of January to 28 February: 86% success rate.
- Had a meeting with the counselling Centre on 22 January about stress management talk that have to be held before exam time.
- Had a meeting with Academic Reps on the 17 of February to give them the mandate of implementing mentorship programs as well as the donate a book campaign that works at the hall level
- Had a meeting with CHERTL. Found out that the library has ZOOMTAX for students that have an eye sight problem as well as hearing. Student on NSFAS who have a problem with their eyes may consult the DSA so that they can get eye glasses
- 21 February had a meeting with Pharmacy faculty
- 23 February had a faculty board meeting with the Law faculty
- 26 February had a meeting with the commerce Faculty
- 27 February had a meeting with the science faculty
March Report
- 1 March had a Faculty board meeting with the Humanities Faculty
The common issue that affected students in all the faculty board meetings it was the recording of lectures and lecturers: it was concluded that they cannot control the recording of lectures and lecturers. Students need to ask for permission from lecturers to record due to Copy right issues and intellectual property. Recording puts students in a better positions of studying because they can go over the recordings over and over again until they understand. You can find out that student’s only grasp 30% of the information in lectures therefor the recordings are very helpful.
- 5 March met with the supplementary exam task team to advance our arguments that will presented to senate.
- 16 March met with the task team for take home exams to discuss the reliability and validity of the exams( memorandum is still being drafted)
April Report
9 April met with the task team for take home exams again to consolidate the recommendations. Currently we are still waiting for the draft to be sent to us so that we can comment and add information were necessary. After that is done. It will be presented in senate.
21 April met with class reps and elected two faculty reps of the humanities faculty to represent us at the faculty board meetings
24 April met with faculty reps of the humanities faculty make a proper hand over of their duties and responsibilities.
May Report
1 May we met again to compile an agenda items that need to be presented in the faculty board meeting of humanities. Three points were drafted namely misgendering of students, uniformity of course outlines as well as the shortage of books at the library.
2 May: attended Law faculty meeting: presented misgendering issue
04 May: elected 2 faculty reps from commerce and education faculty.
7 may commerce meeting: addressed the issue of expensive textbooks
8 May science faculty: apology due to academic commitments.
9 May Humanities Meeting: Agenda items presented by the faculty reps
10 Pharmacy and Education: attended
Advertised and sold tickets for the great filed party. I was tasked with duties to do for the great filed party and successfully did them.
Upcoming events
Tutoring for first years during the exam period particurly for the most failed courses. Three course were identified, namely foundations of law, philosophy and computer science 112 foundations.
1 June tutoring for philosophy 1
8 June computer science 112
15 June LT 1 foundations of Law.
All session will be 2 hours each covering important parts as well as question and answer session.
June Report (During exam period)
9 June Computer Science 112 tutoring was a success
15 June LT 1 Foundations of Law tutoring was a success
Philosophy 1 tutoring did not happen
All sessions were 2hours