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<\/a>\u201cMy position is to hold a seat for the students, to represent them and advocate for them,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s more about learning and networking and seeing how a board of governors works and to have a voice and an opinion on what\u2019s going on at the college.\u201d<\/p>\n
Auger-Langejan is preparing a plan for his time on the education council. He holds to the importance of basing his decisions and proposals upon an objective measure of students\u2019 wants and needs.<\/p>\n
\u201cI plan to gather data, a questionnaire on students which I\u2019m developing,\u201d he says. \u201cI want to figure out questions that they think are important. I want to record their feelings about it, that kind of thing, over the course of several months, and basically create data from that and submit that as empirical evidence to meetings. So it\u2019s no longer left up to the opinions of the people who work within politics in the school. It\u2019s, in fact, left up to the students who feel this way as well, because they\u2019re being represented by data, rather than my opinion.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pica says that it would be a good initiative for the college to promote the student positions on the board of governors and education council.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that it would be very beneficial to have more folks competing for the position,\u201d he says, \u201cso more students know about it, and, therefore, [there would be] more campaigning happening.\u201d<\/p>\n
Auger-Langejan remains hopeful that a new crop of Camosun students will bring fresh interest to the voting process next time around.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere seems to be a bit of a change in the energy of the school,\u201d he says. \u201cIt seems that there are a lot of younger students that came into college for their first year this semester. They spend more time in the library, later nights, meeting groups to study, that kind of thing. They seem like passionate people, and people who lack apathy tend to participate. If people feel like it would actually do something for the school, I feel like they\u2019re more inclined to take time out of their day and go vote.\u201d<\/p>\n
Camosun College board of governors chair Russ Lazaruk points out that the Lansdowne student position on the board remained vacant for a time prior to the election due to lack of interest. He believes that candidate motivation of the electorate is key, and he urges any and all students interested in becoming a part of the college to step forth.<\/p>\n
\u201cGet involved,\u201d says Lazaruk. \u201cIf you\u2019re interested in the governance of college, don\u2019t be afraid to put your name forward. Every student that we\u2019ve had on the board has added quite a bit to the board, and it\u2019s a fantastic learning experience.\u201d<\/p>\n
Auger-Langejan believes that power resides, ultimately, within the student body itself.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you look at the statistics regarding voter turnout,\u201d he says, \u201cit\u2019s usually lower than people would like to hear. But I think that will change, and I think it\u2019ll change when people believe in it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On October 25 and 26, the Camosun College board of governors and education council held their fall by-elections for Lansdowne representatives. Camosun second-year University Transfer student Mitchel Auger-Langejan was elected to the education council as Lansdowne student representative, and Camosun second-year University Transfer student Anthony Pica was elected as Lansdowne student representative to the college\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12991,"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":[13,176],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-november-30-2016"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12990","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=12990"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12993,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12990\/revisions\/12993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}