‘Fed up’ with student services at Mt A, group takes their concerns to Board of Regents
A group of student leaders at Mount Allison are sounding the alarm about what they call “a consistent decline” in the services provided by Mount Allison’s student affairs department.
The group of 30 students sent a detailed package to the school’s Board of Regents in advance of their meeting this week, telling of empty food banks, high staff turnover and vacant positions, new resources that sit unapproved and un-released by university administration, and a pattern of reactive policy-making that leaves the department of student affairs looking poorly organized and under-resourced.
Fourth year Sociology student Isabella Gallant is the driving force behind the letter. As co-lead for the Mount Allison chapter of Jack.org, Gallant says she had a list of frustrations with resources for students, and when she reached out to fellow student leaders, she heard similar concerns.
“I started sending emails before Christmas,” says Gallant, “just reaching out to different students and saying, hey, I’m really fed up, are you really fed up too? And the response from everyone I reached out to was yes, let’s do this.”
Gallant assembled a 32-page document for the Board of Regents, which includes letters from other student leaders including the president of the Black Students’ Union, the president of ENACTUS Mount Allison, and a former Mount Allison Student Union Accessibility Affairs Coordinator.… Continue