Dalhousie Faculty Association

Today was my first meeting with the executive of the Dalhousie Faculty Association. The meeting was basically to introduce myself and themselves and to talk about any areas we may be able to pursue together.

The topics that we discussed were:

- partnering on events (ex - winter skate for students/faculty with chili)

- partnering on fundraising initiatives (ex - Shinerama)

- course evaluations (issue is currently at Senate, I wanted to provide them with a student perspective on the topic)

- co-curricular transcripts (including extracurricular involvement on students' transcripts once they finish university)

- having a member of the DFA attend the next Canadian Roundtable on Academic Materials conference in December (currently the DSU VP Education and the manager of the Dalhousie Bookstore attend)

We had a great conversation on all of the above topics and it was great to be able to meet with their executive. I do plan on working with them when possible during this year to build a better university experience for our students.