Alan went off to India this week on his holidays leaving myself and Melanie to hold the fort. Spent most of monday and tuesday replying to emails and helping out people who had failed an exam. Mostly looking for appeal information. Student experience committee on tuesday. This was great! Chaired by Richard O Kennedy, it takes feedback from students and makes decsions and takes actions based on this feedback. Main things to come out of at this meeting are the new induction booklets that can be programme customised and the staff-student charter that will hopefully apply university wide.
Had a blitz tour with Claire Bohan on wednesday. She showed us around all the departments that make up Student Support and Development which include INTRA, international office, careers, interfaith centre and more. We also discussed the orientation week timetable and what we’re doing etc. Finished off the week by getting the ball rolling on updating the grinds database. So once I’ve gotten plenty of people who are willing to be offer grinds, I’ll put them up on offer
Musings of a DCU Sabbatical Officer 