At University of Windsor, many of our students have been back in classes for two days, and the UWSA is busy planning the upcoming OUSA Blue Chair Campaign, to be held between January 18-20 in our CAW Student Centre. Our team of OUSA Campus Coordinators, spearheaded by Madeline MacIsaac, is churning out a stream of blue chairs – all hand-painted! – and we’re all very excited to be holding our first OUSA Blue Chair Campaign in recent memory.
From November 28-December 2, Ms. MacIsaac and I represented Windsor in more than a dozen lobby sessions at Queen’s Park in Toronto, as one of seven delegations at the OUSA Lobby Conference. This was certainly one of the major highlights of my year, and to have been able to deliver students’ concerns to MPPs in person is not something that I will soon forget. Additionally, I was able to learn more about the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO) by way of visiting its office and engaging in a very informative discussion and presentation.
Sadly for me, our General Election is looming on the horizon, and this means that my term as VPUA for the current academic year is coming to a close. Whether or not I return, I know that I’ll have such fond memories of my time with University of Windsor’s student government, as well as with OUSA. I’ve done my best to advocate on behalf of and to represent our students, and I hope that whomever picks up the VPUA torch next year will carry on with all of the momentum that has been built by this year’s OUSA Steering Committee. However, I’m not done yet, and among other things I look forward to bringing a proposal regarding institutional differentiation to the OUSA spring General Assembly.
Signing off from within the OUSA Home Office,
-Robert Woodrich
Vice President University Affairs
University of Windsor Students’ Alliance
