SUS ELECTION ‘12
Candidate nomination packages are available as of January 31st, 2012 at the SUS offices in Abby C1015 & Chwk G133 and here: SUS General Election\'12 - Candidate Nomination Package.
Completed nomination packages will be accepted at the SUS offices during business hours between Jan. 31 at 8:30 a.m. & Feb. 20, 2012 at 4 p.m. 

The 2012 SUS Election Campaign Period will run from Feb. 22 to March 6, 2012.

Polling will take place online at MY.UFV.CA from 12:01 a.m., Wed., March 7 to 11:59 p.m., Tues., March 13.

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Date posted: January 31, 2012

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The next regular SUS Board meeting will be held on the Abbotsford Campus, February 3, 2012 in C1422! 

Agenda for the February 3 regular meeting: 120203 Draft Agenda ( *updated 12:30 p.m. Feb. 01)

Upcoming SUS meetings:
Chilliwack North Campus, February 17, 2012 in room D215.
Chilliwack Trades and Technology Centre, March 2, 2012 in room Rivers Restaurant
Abbotsford Campus, March 16, 2012 in room C1422.
Mission Campus, March 30, 2012 in room D250.

* Please note all Board meetings are scheduled for 9:30 a.m. unless otherwise noted, and the location rotates between the Abbotsford, Chilliwack North and Mission campuses, and the Trades and Technology Centre in Chilliwack.

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SUS’s position on Bill 18 The Advanced Education Statutes Amendments Act.

The basis of our concern is that provisions in Bill 18, which was given first reading in the Legislature on November 3, makes changes to a board of governors in a way that undermines this representation.

If adopted, sections 19, 34, and 49 of Bill 18 would amend the College and Institutes Act, Royal Roads University Act and University Act to allow a board of governors regulated under those pieces of legislation to remove from office any elected student, faculty, or employee representative on the Board.

Student concerns with these proposed amendments are threefold: (a) that they are unwarranted and without any reasonable or defensible justification; (b) that they will undermine the representation of students in post-secondary governance; and (c) that the Act was brought to the legislature without any evidence of meaningful student consultation.

It is worth noting that sections 20, 32, and 50 of the Act disqualify any employee from holding office who is a voting executive or officer of an association of the University with a potentially competing responsibility from those duties of the board.

If the government feels that there is an issue with conflict of interest, it is best pursued through specific conflict of interest legislation rather than the current course of action.

We believe that whereas students, faculty, and employees are elected by their peers, their removal from office should also be at the sole discretion of their peers.

Click here for SUS on Bill 18

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We’ll be posting the NEW TIME AND PLACE as soon as we have it worked out!

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Thank you to all our members who took the time to cast your vote in the 2011 SUS Referendum.

Thank you to the UFV Rowing Team, UFV Athletic Department, CiVL radio and AfterMath socialhouse for the enthusiastic effort to encourage people to cast an informed vote.

The Big SUS Question: “Do you approve of the Student Union Society securing a $10 million mortgage to finalize the funding required to construct the Student Union Building?”

YES – 599
NO – 351

Referendum result press release

JUST TO BE CLEAR - This mortgage will NOT result in an increase in your student fees! The SUB Fee you currently pay with your registration was originally going to go to pay a lease to UFV; now it will go to pay the mortgage and operations of the building!

Architect’s rendering of the SUBuilding, which will be located between DBuilding and the Envision Athletic Centre – exterior view.

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Congratulations to the Winning Candidates in the 2011 SUS ByElection!

The New SUS VP Social is Wyatt Scott.
The New SUS Clubs & Associations Representative is Cody Willems-Kutz.
The New SUS Residence Representative is Christian Doyle.
The New SUS Representatives at Large are Anne Franklin and Greg Stickland. 

To view the Electoral Committee Report for the SUS 2011 By-election

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NDP MLA & Advanced Education Critic in the B.C. legislature Michelle Mungall met with your SUS at AfterMath social house on the Abbotsford Campus last Friday to touch base with UFV on a number of issues!

The discussion included:

1 – MLA Mungall’s concern over government proposed bill and changes to policy of a University’s Board of Governors allowing to vote out student members of the board by a 2/3 vote;

2 – her concern that B.C. Minister of Advanced Education Naomi has not released her report on student loans in B.C.; 3 – the fact that B.C. students have the highest interest rate in the country on student loans and the highest average amount of student debt; that if students want to get their voice heard, they need to send lots and lots of letters to the B.C. Minister of Higher Education’s office;

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4 – the problem that student debt is getting too high due to the cost of going to school rising.

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