Student Assembly - Meeting 2 …

  STUDENT ASSEMBLY

Join us for the first Student Assembly with the newly elected Student Assembly Community Members! Student Assembly is the Union's main decision-making body. It creates and oversees our guiding policies, holds the Student Officers to account, and is involved in Union campaigns and development. The Student Assembly Chair for the 25-26 Academic Year is Richard 'Remz' Iyede - to submit an agenda point for the next student assembly please email Richard.Iyede@brunel.ac.uk. 

Date: Wednesday 29th October

Time: 2pm - 4pm

Location: LC 063 

AGENDA

1. Attendance and Apologies

2. Minutes of the previous meeting and updates on actions - Minutes from 24th September

3. Matters Arising - Terry Vass (Head of Security and Emergency Planning) will be joining to discuss plans for 25/26 around student safety – 2pm

4. Motions to change Bye-laws – None

5. Motions + Motions Set to Lapse – None

6. Officer & Committee Member Updates (verbal)

 a) President objectives overview 

            i Education President, Abhishek - Abhishek’s Blog: Freshers, Employability, and Bringing Sports to LOCOS

            ii Welfare and Inclusion President, Rana - Rana’s Blog: Winning the Strength Challenge and Pushing for More 

            iii Student Activities President, Nafee - Nafee's Blog: From Freshers to Brunel’s Biggest Gaming Event

    b) PT Officer updates (verbal)

              i BME Officer - Nygel Mbithi

              ii International Students Officer - Aarya Gujrati

              iii Women’s Officer - Anika Bushra Labiba

              iv Gender, Diversity and Inclusion Officer - Nimisha Pangeni

              v Environment and Ethics Officer - Mahad Khan

              vi Home Student Officer - Abdel Moeez

              vii LGBTQ+ Officer - Maia Serket

              viii Disabled Students Officer - Hamza Ashraf

              ix Societies Guild Updates

               x Team Brunel Updates

7. Union Objectives – Craig Lithgow (Chief Exec)

8. Feedback via questions - the Vision of Voice 

Quoracy has to be achieved within 5 minutes of the meeting's starting time, so please be on time

FAQs

1. What is Student Assembly?

Student Assembly is the main place where big decisions are made about what your Union focuses on and how it represents you. From shaping campaigns to setting our guiding policies, Student Assembly helps steer the direction of the Union and holds our elected officers to account.

2. Who can attend Student Assembly?

Anyone can attend and get involved in the discussion – it’s your space to speak up, ask questions, and influence what’s happening on campus. But when it comes to voting, that’s in the hands of our elected Student Assembly members, who represent the wider student voice. 

3. Who sits on Student Assembly? 

13 x Executive Committee (includes full time and Part time officers), 15 x Community members (With a target of at least 5 of those to be Women), 2 x Commuter student members (With a target of at least 1 of those to be Women), 4 x Home Student members (with a target of at least 2 of them being women), 2 x Societies Guild Committee members, 2 x Team Brunel Committee members