Appendix E: CSSF Presentation
Student Services
Levy Consultation
Demogr aphics
● Just over 1000 respondents
● 75% undergrad, 20% postgrad
● Faculty representation:
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25% Science
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18% Arts
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15% Engineering
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15% Business
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10% Medical and Health Sciences
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8% Law
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7% CAI
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2% Education Social W ork
How impor t ant ar e t hese ser v ices t o y ou per sonally ?
How impor t ant ar e t hese ser v ices t o t he st udent body ?
What ser v ices should be f unded mor e, about t he same, or less?
Personal Importance
Student Body
Priority
Important
Not
Important
Not
More
Less
important
important
H+C
88%
4%
H+C
94%
2%
H+C
70%
5%
Sport
71%
16%
CDES
85%
4%
Sport
34%
10%
CDES
64.9
16%
Clubs
76%
7%
CDES
30%
10%
Advocacy
60%
14%
Pastoral
74%
8%
Advocacy
27%
13%
Pastoral
59%
17%
Sport
73%
10%
Pastoral
26%
15%
Clubs
59%
21%
Advocacy
72%
9%
Clubs
25%
14%
Events
51.%
10%
Events
67%
11%
Events
22%
10%
Transition
50%
26%
Transition
64%
14%
Transition
21%
18%
Accommod
46%
28%
Accommod
64%
14%
Accommoda
20%
18%
ation
ation
tion
Chapel
14.8
66%
Chapel
37%
33%
Chapel
7%
47%
Key Takeaw ays
● Health and counselling is very important to students. They want to see it better
prioritised.
● Students wanted more funding to sports, CDES, pastoral care, and student advocacy
● Chapels were not seen as important, and students wanted to reduce funding.
● Students also commented about:
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the uneven division of funding betw een faculties
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the importance of student study spaces and libraries
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the need for a stronger student community
Pr oposals
1. Fund a new w elfare initiative
2. Prioritise and improve health and counselling services
3. Increase advocacy funding
4. Create more student study spaces
5. Review the allocation of faculty funding
1. Fund new w elf ar e init iat iv e
● $40,000 into funding welfare initiatives for AUSA.
● This supports pastoral care, health and counselling, student advocacy, and our
s tudent community
● This means:
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Supporting and grow ing our current w elfare programs w here demand has outstripped supply.
These include the food bank, hardship grant s, dental grant s, t ext book grants.
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Running new init iat ives and event s aimed at building community, and raising aw areness and
support for mental health
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Bringing on a st aff member dedicated to grow ing this area
2. Fund new
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2. Pr ior it ise and impr ov e healt h and
counselling
● Free up resources within Health and Counselling to optimise delivery
● Ensure there are enough resources to meet demand, including for lower clinical need
s tudents
● Develop resources and staffing capacity focussing on prevention and community
support
3. Incr ease f unding f or adv ocacy
72% of students saw student advocacy as important, and it w as ranked 4th as the area
students w anted to see better prioritised.
W e propose increasing funding for advocacy by $40,000 in tw o streams:
a)
AUSA Advocacy Hub
b)
Clas s Repres entative Sys tem
4. Mor e st udent st udy spaces
The University is lacking study spaces. This is a particular problem in CAI w here libraries are
closing dow n.
W e ask that the University:
●
Involves s tudents in the reconfiguration of the General Libraries ;
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In the s hort term, turns old library s paces into s tudent s tudy s paces ;
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In the long term:
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Includes s tudy s pace in the Gatew ay building;
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P artners w ith AUSA and SCG to develop a s trategy for the future of s tudent s paces on
campus .
5. Assess and r at ionalise f acult y
f unding
How is faculty funding distributed?
How is this decision made?
W hat factors are taken into account?
There is a need for transparency and rationalisation of the distribution of funding
SCG Endor sement
W e ask that SCG endorses these proposals, and this report.
This w ill go to Finance Committee, and then University Council (hopefully) for approval.
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