Wooie Edmonton!

Recently Adam and I traveled to  Edmonton to try on being an Oilers fan for a couple days…( HAHA just kidding, I really don’t even follow hockey…). We were there for the annual day long series of meeting with those representatives from The Ministry of Adavanced Education and Technology departments as well as CAUS’s Annual General Meeting.

The meeting’s were very informative and chock full of everything we need to know in order to best work with the Alberta government to serve student’s needs. Basically I left with enough acronyms in my head to develop a new spy code for lobby groups.

The meeting was a round table with rep’s from the ministry as well as CAUS, ACTISEC and the GSA and included the opportunity to talk with Minister Horner about future plans for students across Alberta. There was some great discussion around students housing and deferred maintenance on student residency’s. The issue of affordable and quality student housing is something that CAUS is really focusing on this year and if you have any concerns/ideas/thoughts on this issue please feel free drop me a line at su.academic@uleth.ca.

I will be posting my official travel report for the AGM and AET shortly. So stay tuned for more fun and good political times.

Jenn Prosser, VP Academic