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<\/a>The initial stages of the initiative have involved consultations with various members of the college community\u2014including students\u2014to determine what policies stand out as high priority. The initiative is coinciding with some financial leeway, according to Boraas, which will allow the college to invest in resources as well as policy creation.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s timed with the ability for us to do some investments in different parts of the college,\u201d says Boraas. \u201cOur policy priorities can be paired up with adding resources we need to do things differently, so I\u2019m pretty excited.\u201d<\/p>\n
Camosun College Student Society External Executive Rachael Grant is also a member of the Camosun College Policy and Standards sub-committee and has been part of the consultation process. She hopes to see this initiative positively impact the student experience at Camosun.<\/p>\n
\u201cThroughout this whole process of consultation, we\u2019ve come across all these issues that students face that haven\u2019t really been discussed as thoroughly as they could have been,\u201d says Grant. \u201cAll these really important issues are coming up because of this consultation, and some of it will be addressed in policy and some of it will be looking at practices, and I just hope to see this transfer to a really tangible benefit for Camosun students in how they navigate postsecondary.\u201d<\/p>\n
The college says that a strategic role of policy and policy development is being able to put organizational values and principles into practice. To accomplish this, the student voice is essential, according to Boraas.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve always believed in going after the voice of students, but I have to admit it does get lost sometimes as we hurry to get things done,\u201d says Boraas. \u201cSo it\u2019s really a chance for us to do things based on what our values actually are, to build processes that invite the student voice in.\u201d<\/p>\n
This initiative\u2014which is expected to be ongoing over the next six or seven years\u2014is geared toward creating an institution with a focus on the learning experience of students, according to Boraas.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe really want all of this work to be done through the lens of student success and the student experience,\u201d he says. \u201cSo we are wanting to take a really progressive student-centric approach to how we look at all of our policies.\u201d<\/p>\n
Grant says that this is a chance to make a difference in terms of student experience, and there is a hope that more students will participate in this active policy rewrite.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe college is so eager to have student representation on the [Policy and Standards] sub-committee, and it is such an amazing opportunity; this doesn\u2019t happen often and has such amazing long-term impacts,\u201d says Grant. \u201cWhether you realize it or not, we interface with policy all the time. When you were admitted into Camosun College, that was you interacting with policy, and it impacts every student, so it\u2019s a way that you can contribute for students now and for students years from now. I would highly recommend it if you have the time and the energy to put your two cents in because it\u2019s definitely worth it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Camosun is currently working on their Education Policy Renewal and Framework Initiative, which aims to address the current educational policy priorities of the college. It\u2019s been approximately eight years since the college has had dedicated policy resources, something that Camosun Vice President of Education John Boraas says has been a result of budget cuts. \u201cWe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-may-11-2016"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12004"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12007,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12004\/revisions\/12007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}