Neither did I. But apparently they're having their inaugural conference, "Conference on Parterships and Development," this June. According to their introduction:
"This conference has been brought to fruition through the input and feedback
from many student associations of varying sizes and from across the country. Focusing on professional development, organizational development, building partnerships and planning for the future, the FCSL aims to be a forum for collaboration and progression."
The Steering Committee includes student association executives from Brock, Dalhousie, Queen's, Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, University of Alberta, and Red River College. Bryan Hicks, Brock University Student Union President, seems to be chairing the event: he is on the Steering Committee; he is a listed presenter; and he seems to be the FCSL webmaster.
Some might be aware of the goings-on within the Canadian Congress of Student Associations (CCSA), the annual training and networking event for student association executives. Several large students' unions have been dissatisfied with the CCSA as of recently, complaining (1) that the conference was being "politicized" by Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) staff and executives, and (2) the conference was focussing more on the needs of small student associations, neglecting issues facing large ones. A recent report from the President of the UWO University Students' Council (unfortunately no longer available online) talked about the formation of a new annual conference, geared towards large student associations. In addition, Perhaps this is said conference?
In any event, the conference has significantly greater visibility than the Canadian Congress of Student Associations, which does not currently have a website.
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4 Comments:
CCSA currently has a website and it's down.
This has been a long time coming, GREAT JOB to the 6 executives who have taken this on from 6 schools. There were over 30 of us that signed the letter and only these 6 took it on.
We'll see you in Toronto!!
Hey,
I find it very disturbing that people are cheering for the ruin of CCSA, which our fellow students worked very hard on. As students facing similar conditions here in Canada we should all be working together, not planning conferences to compete with one another. Furthermore, certain student unions were strategically not consulted in the formation of the letter being referred to. This blog seems to have a lot of stuff drawing attention to the activities of student union representatives at schools where students have voted to be a part of the CFS, but ignores the political collaboration between CASA school representatives who, in this case, conspired to cancel the conference that their fellow students voted to hold and went to a lot of work to plan.
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