The University of Windsor Students’ Alliance recently held it’s first-ever full scale OUSA Blue Chair Campaign and I am pleased to announce that it was a success. While we are always looking for ways to grow and improve, our team of volunteers – led by Campus Coordinator Madeline MacIsaac – launched a three-day long campaign that will be tough to match.
In the days preceding the campaign, UWSA Councilors such as Aaron Campbell, Laine McGarragle, Kim Orr and Thomas Sasso came together and helped to spread the Blue Chair Campaign message in an effort to raise awareness around the need to expand access to higher education as an equalizer of economic prosperity and social vitality in Canadian society.
From January 18-20, 2010, we enjoyed front-page coverage by The Windsor Star LINK, two stories in uWindsor’s Daily News LINK#1, LINK#2, uWindsor’s The Lance LINK, and were covered during the Monday morning commute by Windsor’s AM800 CKLW and CBC Radio 1 Windsor on the first day of the campaign.
As a result of engaging students in a Speaker’s Corner, our next step is to edit more than 5 Gigabytes of digital video footage into a message that conveys the challenges faced by non-students and students alike to partners in the PSE sector.
Stay tuned!
-Robert Woodrich
Vice President University Affairs
University of Windsor Students’ Alliance
