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Lorri Millar
'Hi, my name is Lorri Millar, and I have the distinction of being the first ever Academic Sabbatical at the University of Cumbria. I was elected last year after completing a degree in Primary Education and Religious Education and I’m very excited to be representing you this year in this challenging new position.
In the recent over-haul of the Students’ Union we defined our core purpose as being “the advancement of education of students at the University of Cumbria.” This simple statement drives us to demand the very highest quality of teaching and assessment possible for you, our members.
Whether you relate to academic excellence in terms of ‘value for your tuition fees’ or making sure that post-qualification your course is widely respected to maximise your chance of getting a good job it is the one aspect of being a student that unites us all, which explains why we’ve put it at the heart of everything we aim to do. My role is to take the issues you raise and add them to our ongoing improvement projects to strive to make the University better.
To this end I head up a team of locally elected Faculty Representatives who are the Students; Union’s first point of contact with the course and program level Student Academic Reps’ (or Course Reps.) These are elected by their course-mates in one of the first lectures of the year and provide support and feedback through the University and Union systems to assist in making sure the teaching, learning and assessment is constantly improving. The Union has recently taken ownership of this system and we aim to make it more accessible and effective in meeting the needs of students. If you believe you could contribute to a meaningful and progressive campaign to improve your courses then contact either myself or Dominic Leighton (UCSU Representation Coordinator dominic.leighton@cumbria.ac.uk ) to find out more about becoming part of the SAR team.
We will also be leading a range of educational campaigning across all sites and courses, which may include such projects as RARA (Rules and Regulations Awareness), Late (recording late and cancelled lectures) and Contact (tracking contact hours – such as lectures, seminars and small group sessions for online courses– to rank value for money courses). We are also able to take your issues as they arise onboard and very quickly incorporate them into a campaign, lobbying session or any of the other avenues of action open to us.
I have no doubt that over the next year changes within the University will have an affect on your academic experience, it’s my job to try and eradicate or minimise the negative and maximise the positive. If you have any issues please feel free to get in contact with me at any time, you can pop into any Students’ Union office or e-mail me at lorraine.millar@cumbria.ac.uk
Good luck and hope to see you at an Academic Group or Assembly soon!'
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