Here are the election hopefuls and their manifestos:
Candidates for President Falmouth:
James Pearce
- Acting on our Declaration of a Climate Emergency
- Unify the Uni
- Prioritise your mental health and wellbeing
- Let’s all just take a minute
- Of ‘course’ there should be more collaboration
- Refresh your freshers and events
Lizzy Marshall
- Course collaboration platform
- Put your mark on campus
- Student Discount
- Improved student networks
- Student rep feedback
- Student mentor funding
- Environmental campus
- Recording lectures
- Better structure for wellbeing
- Student timetabling
- Advance Falmouth campus
- Student hall development
- Expand the workshop festival
Maria Meekings
- Aid Mentors and Pass Scheme
- ‘You said, we did’ report
- Cross course collaboration
- Support mental Health
- Improve employability
- Strengthen the rep system
Candidates for President Exeter:
Mia Terra St Hill
- Sustainability
- Academic
- Student Engagement
- Campuses
Grace Turner
- Wellbeing
- Course Related Feedback
- Develop Exeter Learning Environment
- Champion Post-Grad and combined Honours Reps
- Social and Financial Transparency
- Enhance communication on campus
- Long term plan for those affected by strike action
- Truro campus expansion
- Student Involvement
Cara Chittenden
- Funding for Exeter Cornwall Campus
- Encourage lecturers to provide feedback on Turnitin
- Access to Societies and modules based at Streatham campus
- Black tie graduation as well as summer ball
- More academic trips
- Greater access to modules
- Longer window to switch modules at start of term
- Pushing module convenors to create more diverse reading lists
- More accessible subject reps
- Liaising with mental health charities
- Mental health training for all personal tutors
- Liaising with environmental campaign groups
Candidates for student experience:
Verity
- Improve travel
- Revive the library
- Improving hardship funds/barriers
- Green campus
- Stannary events
Ellen Monaghan
- Make change happen
- Better study facilities
- Fix campus events
- Support for student workers
- Launch a positive news platform
- Cheap travel options
- Embed sustainability
- Improve food
- Increase engagement
- Lobby for transparency
- Better support for student opportunities
- Improve sports provision
Ana Grilo
- Redesign freshers week
- Improve relations between students and locals
- Capping campus parking fees at £5 daily and the first 1.5 hours free
- Improve campus events
- Reduce food waste
- Set up food donation point
Amelia Banton
- Low bus prices
- Minibus between both campuses
- Text book recycling
- Sustainability
- Sports pitches
- Academic society autonomy
- Volunteering
- Grad Ball
- International celebrations
- Water fountains and microwaves
- Study and exhibition space and Falmouth library refurbishment
Candidates for President Welfare and Inclusivity:
Zoe Burden
- Work to improve inclusive infrastructure
- Give all students with disabilities the opportunity to book a One to One tutorial with head of year/course leader
- Hold monthly live streamed Snack n Chat events to discuss general welfare
- Increase offerings of diverse, inclusive and welfare focused
- activities
- Increase attention to events and campaigns
- Develop an annual celebration event
- Link feedback from various systems
- Continue to support successful projects
Tremaine Berry
- S.A.D Campaign
- Digital Welfare
- Promote Tools from SU website
- Tackle conflict
- The fifth pledge; you decide
Charlotte Agnew
- Bring in more funding for mental wellbeing services
- Make application forms for wellbeing and living support easier to fill out
- Introduce more accessible routes on campus
- Make subtitles mandatory
- Introduce more quiet space on campus
- Make housing easier to find with a widget on the Falmouth app.
- Highlighting different student experiences with a short film series project, acknowledging more diversity for international students and isolated students
- Introduce more collaboration between different students and courses
- Introduce more frequent international food weeks
- Celebrate important cultural dates each month with student union events.