The Student Union: Turning Students into Advocates

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamie Chamberlin
Keyword(s):  
Student Union

Jordanian graduate students’ complaints on Facebook: Semantic formulas and politeness

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 144-165
Author(s):  
Fathi Migdadi ◽  
Muhammad A. Badarneh ◽  
Laila Khwaylih
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Negative Affect ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Indirect Speech ◽  
Student Union ◽  
Closed Group ◽  
Indirect Speech Acts ◽  
Face Saving

Abstract This study examines Jordanian graduate students' complaints posted on a Facebook closed group and directed to the representatives of Student Union at Jordan University of Science and Technology to be transferred to the officials concerned. In line with Boxer (1993b), the study considers the students' complaints to be indirect speech acts, as the addressee(s) are not the source of the offense. Using a sample of 60 institutional complaining posts, the researchers have analysed the complaints in terms of their semantic formulas, politeness functions and correlations with the gender of the complainers. The students’ complaints are classified into six semantic formulas of which the act statement element is indispensable as the complaint is stated in it. The other five formulas, ordered according to their frequency, are opener, remedy, appreciative closing, justification and others. Despite the negative affect typically involved in the complaining act, the semantic formulas identified in this study are found to signal politeness and fit into Brown and Levinson’s (1987) pool of face-saving strategies rather than face-threatening acts. Specifically, when the graduate students direct their Facebook complaints to the students' representatives, they tend to offer camaraderie with them to be encouraged to pursue the problems specified in the complainers’ posts.

The Creation of a Mental Health Policy in Higher Education

2021 ◽  
pp. 089590482110156
Author(s):  
Kelly A. Pilato ◽  
Madelyn P. Law ◽  
Miya Narushima ◽  
Shannon A. Moore ◽  
John A. Hay
Keyword(s):  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
Mental Health Policy ◽  
Student Voices ◽  
Limited Evidence ◽  
Comprehensive University ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Student Union ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Mental Wellness

The mental wellness of university students can be critical for their success. In an attempt to minimize stress for students, many universities have implemented a policy for a fall break with limited evidence to support its intended outcomes. This case study offers a critical appraisal of the formation of the fall break policy at one medium sized comprehensive university using qualitative and quantitative forms of evidence triangulated from (1) University Student Union survey, (2) document analysis and; (3) informant interview. The lack of uniformity on how the fall break is labelled, the timing of the break and its evaluation emerged as design flaws in the creation stage that perhaps, could have been mitigated if faculty and student voices were included in policy creation decisions.

scholarly journals Vida de Carmen Caamaño Díaz : una voz del exilio interior

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mercedes Montero Caldera
Keyword(s):  
Death Penalty ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Teachers Union ◽  
University Women ◽  
Student Union ◽  
The Board Of Directors ◽  
The University ◽  
Police Control ◽  
General Secretary

Este artículo recoge el testimonio oral de Carmen Caamaño Díaz (Madrid, 1911), quien a través de su memoria hace un recorrido autobiográfico en el que manifiesta la evolución de un compromiso ideológico que la convertiría en sujeto activo del exilio interior durante el régimen franquista. En su etapa universitaria, Carmen fue miembro de la junta Directiva de la FUE (Federación Española de Enseñantes) y Secretaria General de la UFEH (Unión Federal de estudiantes Hispanoamericanos) desde 1930 a 1931. Licenciada en Filosofía y Letras, trabajó en él Centro de estudios tiistohcos formando parte del equipo de investigación que dirigía Claudio Sáncfiez Albornoz. En 1937 ingresó en el P.C.E, desempeñando, entre otros cargos, el de Gobernadora Civil de Cuenca desde enero a marzo de 1939. Al finalizar la guerra, fue detenida y condenada a prisión. En 1941 trató de reorganizar en la clandestinidad el partido comunista en la provincia de Alicante, siendo nuevamente detenida y condenada a muerte, pena que le sería conmutada por la de cárcel. Depurada profesionalmente y bajo control policial durante varios años, su actividad de oposición al régimen de Franco la llevaría a cabo desde la Asociación de Mujeres Universitarias.This article includes the oral statement of Carmen Caamaño Díaz (Madrid, 1911), who covers her autobiography through her memory, expressing an ideogical compromise evolution through which she would become an active subjet of the inner exile throughout Franco's regime. While being a student at university, she was a member of the Board of Directors of the UFEH (Spanish Teachers Union) and General Secretary of the UFEH (Latin American Student Union ) from 1930 to 1931. With a degree in Arts, she worked at the Centre of Historie Studies taking part within the investigation team conducted by Claudio Sánchez Albornoz. In 1937 she joined the Spanish Communist Party, performing the charge, amongst others, of Civil Governor of Cuenca from January to March 1939. At the end of the war, she was arrestad and sentenced to imprisoment. In 1941 she tried to reorganise in secret the Communist Party in the province of Alicante. She was again arrested and sentenced to the death penalty, penalty that would be commuted for imprisonment. Politically purged and under police control throughout several years, she would undertake her opposition activity to Franco's regime from the University Women Association.

Who owns the student voice?

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Dickinson ◽  
Antonia Fox
Keyword(s):  
Focus Groups ◽  
Concept Mapping ◽  
Student Voice ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Student Activities ◽  
Personal Connection ◽  
Student Union ◽  
The University ◽  
Method Approach ◽  
Insight Into

This research, undertaken by Student Fellows (a scheme managed by both the University of Winchester and Winchester Student Union), aims to evaluate students’ perceptions of student voice at the University and to raise awareness of the opportunities available. Through the mixed-method approach of concept mapping, focus groups and surveys, the hope is to target the gap in the literature of this field. Having a personal connection with this project gave us a powerful insight into the students’ mindset and therefore allowed us to address the issue directly, particularly with regard to the decrease in engagement with student activities from school to university.

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