Progress Review meeting established Demon Media’s perceived purpose from the perspective of DMU, DSU and Student leaders within Demon. to date Meeting established Demon’s Vision, Mission and Values (summary) The above then fed into the creation of new articles of association and which were approved by the DemonFM board. Worked provisionally in accordance with Demon’s new Constitution to recruit Demon Board members in accordance with new structure and governance. Latest Demon Media AGM was held on the 11th April where a new constitution & demon board membership was approved by the membership of Demon. Progress Demon Board meeting to be arranged with VP Media and Comms elect invited for handover purposes. Provisional meetings with members have been held and the discussions there will help inform the agenda of the first board meeting. From now onwards. board meeting to take place in May where we will Time Scale begin talking strategy & addressing some more pressing concerns for the until coming year such as resourcing & FM license renewal. students see results Make printing cheaper on campus Context Students, when asked, frequently cite the cost of printing to be a major (summary) burden to their academic experience at DMU. At a time when students are paying more than ever for university, students should be able to enjoy a cheaper print solution on campus Progress Worked with the university to establish the Student Print Project group to date which then confirmed that the university would capitalise the installation of a new print fleet across campus which would result in much cheaper (summary) printing just covering the costs of consumables (paper, ink, toner etc). – fleet has been installed across campus & the cost of printing has gone down significantly for the student body. Latest Been monitoring and working with the print project board. Ensured Progress student-favourable outcomes to specific situations around acetate printing and others. Learned’ wrap up meeting scheduled for 7th Feb. ‘Lessons Time Immediate Scale until students see results Be more transparent about tuition fee spending Context In an age of high student fees, university funding is becoming more of a (summary) debate in current political context. I believe that students, who can be seen as consumers of the university, deserve to know more about precisely how their fees are spent
Progress to date (summary) Review meeting established Demon Media’s perceived purpose from the perspective of DMU, DSU and Student leaders within Demon. Meeting established Demon’s Vision, Mission and Values The above then fed into the creation of new articles of association and which were approved by the DemonFM board. Worked provisionally in accordance with Demon’s new Constitution to recruit Demon Board members in accordance with new structure and governance. Latest Progress Demon Media AGM was held on the 11th April where a new constitution & demon board membership was approved by the membership of Demon. Demon Board meeting to be arranged with VP Media and Comms elect invited for handover purposes. Provisional meetings with members have been held and the discussions there will help inform the agenda of the first board meeting. Time Scale until students see results From now onwards. board meeting to take place in May where we will begin talking strategy & addressing some more pressing concerns for the coming year such as resourcing & FM license renewal. Make printing cheaper on campus Context (summary) Students, when asked, frequently cite the cost of printing to be a major burden to their academic experience at DMU. At a time when students are paying more than ever for university, students should be able to enjoy a cheaper print solution on campus Progress to date (summary) Worked with the university to establish the Student Print Project group which then confirmed that the university would capitalise the installation of a new print fleet across campus which would result in much cheaper printing – just covering the costs of consumables (paper, ink, toner etc). fleet has been installed across campus & the cost of printing has gone down significantly for the student body. Latest Progress Been monitoring and working with the print project board. Ensured student-favourable outcomes to specific situations around acetate printing and others. ‘Lessons Learned’ wrap up meeting scheduled for 7th Feb. Time Scale until students see results Immediate Be more transparent about tuition fee spending Context (summary) In an age of high student fees, university funding is becoming more of a debate in current political context. I believe that students, who can be seen as consumers of the university, deserve to know more about precisely how their fees are spent
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