Winter

The days are getting shorter and it’s getting colder outside. But the seven of us continue unabated! With hot chocolate from the coffee machine in our Inspraak! mugs (and after last Wednesday: our self-decorated mugs!) and delicious home-baked brownies, we get through one meeting after another. Wondering what all of our meetings are about? You’ll read all about it in this blog.

What meetings do we have?

The Faculty Council attends a lot of meetings to best carry out our duties. The most important is the monthly Faculty Council meeting with the Faculty Board. In this we advise the FB solicited and unsolicited on the decisions they make for our faculty. Sometimes we have the right of consent on a piece. This means that the board needs our explicit permission to pass a certain decision. In other areas, we have advisory rights. We are then allowed to ask critical questions and discuss any ideas and comments we have with the Faculty Board. We are also allowed to propose our own agenda items. When we want to discuss an item from our annual themes, for example, or when we are made aware of topics we want to put on the agenda through Inspraak members and other students.

To prepare well for that meeting, we meet regularly with each other and with other parties. For example, every week we have a meeting with the student delegation. Then there is the presidium. This is the agenda setting for the Faculty Council. A week later is the pre-meeting, where the student delegation and staff delegation meet to prepare for the Faculty Council. In addition, we attend a lot of meetings to keep in touch with other Inspraak members and councils. We divide these meetings among the seven of us. For example, we attend the program meetings. This is a meeting with all members of the Inspraak belonging to one program. This is how we keep in touch with the program committees and management teams. There is also the pre-meeting of the Board of Studies (meetings with delegates from all MTs of the programs), the pre-meeting of the OC-UGS (meeting with delegates from all program committee rooms of the programs) and the Parliamentary Consultations (Parlo’s; meeting with all members of the Inspraak). In addition, we also attend the Chairs’ Consultations and Faculty Councils’ Consultations (FaRaOs) to keep in touch with other councils.

What do we talk about?

What do we talk about during such a meeting? This could be about social safety within the faculty, board grants for study associations, the faculty budget, electives for masters and many other topics. Last Faculty Council Meeting we discussed the possibility of changing the language of instruction for academic (one-year) masters and social annual reports. Wondering what we will be talking about at the next Faculty Council Meeting on December 12? Then join us from 14:00 to 16:00 in the Faculty Room (E3.14) in the Martinus J. Langeveld Building. A spoiler: we will discuss the Education and Examination Regulations (EER), perhaps the most important document for all students. It contains all the rules and agreements about your study and education.

Dear winter greetings,

Britt, Lynn, Maartje, Mel, Ming, Rik and Ylana

Student delegation Faculty Council Social and Behavioural Sciences 2023/2024